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VIDEO
THE NEW CLOTHES
Marionette and Puppets Theatre
Medium-format show for two actors, masks and sixteen puppets of various techniques, the main: the marionettes. For children or families and all audiences. Indoor or outdoor.
Free adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Emperor's New Clothes", with its own content, such as the migration, the labor exploitation, the fair trade.
Synopsis
Genís of Matafaluga and Griselda of Margalló, minstrels, comedians and puppeteers of the Middle Ages, tell the story of two good Catalans weavers and tailors forced to emigrate, and after a long journey, ended up making a costume "very special" for a presumptuous Emperor from a distant lands. A clothing that, according to them, can only see the good people and smartest because it becomes invisible to the eyes of the silly and evil people.

Contents
Besides own morality of Andersen's tale, which says that we
should not believe that something is true, only because
others believe it, if we are seeing that is false, we
added various issues related to labor and migration -or
immigration, depending on the own perspective-. Therefore, the
protagonists are here two local weavers and tailors, who are
forced to seek work abroad, pushed by the suffered misery.
Then, amid laughter, we intend to do a little reflection on:
- EMIGRATION: we want the viewer ponder on
why someone has to leave his home, abandoning family,
properties and territory to go running a lot of vicissitudes
in places that is strange, and where he does not even know if
it will be welcome.
- WAR AND PEACE: because, as evidenced in
the show is the war that takes these artisans to misery and
hunger and thus forces them to migrate.
- LABOR EXPLOITATION: arrived in this
country far, weavers, hoping to earn a living, they fall into
the hands of the Prime Minister, which keeps them locked in
the palace, working in harsh conditions, almost without
stopping and without getting anything in change, except
threats and false promises.
- FAIR TRADE: the Prime Minister, which is
also responsible for providing the wardrobe Emperor's, it is
becoming rich at the expense of the weavers, because he
pockets whatever it pays. The Emperor does not think on who
makes the clothes, but to be presumptuous and he wouldn’t say
no when the Prime Minister he proposed to take advantage of
the weavers.
Finally, and thanks to the ingenuity they are saved, but the
message remains clear that often the unequal conditions
between people -as a metaphor of the North-South inequalities-
encourage the abuse of the powerful over the neediest.
CREDITS
Author, direction, design and construction marionettes,
scenes and props: Carles Cañellas
Dressmaking marionettes: Susanna Rodríguez
Actors - Puppeteers:
Carles
Cañellas ... Genís de Matafaluga
Susanna Rodríguez ... Griselda del
Margalló
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
DURATION: performance: 1 hour / stage set up
(indoor-theatre-lighting): 2 hours / (outdoor-sun):
1 hour / dismantling: 1 hour
AUDIENCE: from 2 years upward / maximum
recommended capacity 300 people
SCENIC SPACE: can be performed indoor or
outdoor
minimal measures: width: 5m / depth: 5m
indoor: height: 3m / preferably with
background or black box theatre
outdoor: wind-sheltered area / a platform is
not required when the audience is arranged on tiers (banks) or
in an amphitheater, but in case of parterre with more than 150
spectators, we need a podium or elevated stage approximately
40-80cm
SOUND: own sound equipment of 500w or
connection to the P.A. of the space on stage
LIGHTING: indoors or at night is needed 6kw
of frontal light and 1 backlight semi zenithal near to
back-curtain
CURRENT: power outlet on the stage / potency
2,5Kw/h + lighting