2007-01-05T14:57:00.000-08:00

Accopanied by the music of a shadow puppet band, the master of cerimonies and owner the “Magic Foam Circus” presents standards circus acts as well as behind the scenes glinpses of the circus performers everyday life both in and out of the ring. The plot evolves around the circus owner, and the adventures of a hungry lion that scapes from its cage, “Odin” the magician, “Sanson El Magnífico”, the Strong Man, a troupe of clowns, the trapeze artist, the acrobats and others who make up the fun and fabulous “El Mágico Circo de Espuma” coming soon to year town!!! El Mágico Circo de Espuma is the latest work by author and director Alexandre Pring who, since 1989, has been enchanting audiences with his imaginative puppetes, objects and staging.
Among other production, Pring has staged “Floresta de Duendes”, “Estação Terra”, and the same “El Mágico Circo de Espuma”. Nominated for the Coca-Cola Project for Children’s Theatre Award for Best Staging, the El Mágico Circo de Espuma has had great success with audiences and critics alike due in part to the sophisticated special effects and staging of its tirts production under a 15m x 20m circus tent erected in the gardens of the Museu da República (Rio de Janeiro / Brasil – 1996). Today, the show continues to mix different styles and techniques of theatre, circus, fine arts and marionettes in a version adapted for the theatre and alternative space. This smaller version continue express the thrill of the circus but avoids the logistical difficulties of the original production, which used staging weighing nearly four tons.

In this smaller version the El Mágico Circo de Espuma leaves the big top behind for the convenience of the theatre and alternative spaces adding new scenes and characters expressed through the art of clown and through exploiting the relationship between the actor and the marionette to culminate in a hilarious and witty show filled with surprises for all. The cast is made up of three multi-faceted actors who perform as dancers, singers, jugglers, clowns, puppeteers and who even change sets and control the sound sistem for all to see, guiding the public from start to finish through one of the smallest circus tents in the world complete with popcorn, soda and cotton-candy.

50 cm. Tall “puppet” – characters along with “actors” – characters show-off their talents in quick moving scenes employing the arts of animation such as Bunraku, Shadow Theatre, Black Theatre, magic and circus offering the audience an action packed experience filled with expressive, gestures, forms, images, moviments and colors. At the beginning, actors and spectators circulate for a gallery of three-dimensional pictures (previous of the personages and attractions of the spectacle, and a little of the history of the circus), in the way of jugglings, magic, and fire numbers, finishing the passage front to small ring.

The exposition of three-dimensional figures complements the aesthetic of the spectacle, that portraies with its coloring the true world of the circus. Inks acrylic and plastic, polyurethane foam, and scrap portions, compose the creative panels, also signed for Alexander Pring.

This spectacle and all its scenic material, meets in Rio de Janeiro to wait of sponsorship to be carried to Europe.

Technique

SCRIPT, DIRECTION AND DIRECTION OF ART

Alexandre Pring

ILLUMINATION
Djalma Amaral/Cláudio Martani

SOUND TRACK

Alexandre Pring

COMPOSITIONS AND EDITION

Gui Tavares

CAST

(actors that already passed for the circus)

Alexandre Pring / Cleber de Oliveira / Henrique Gonçalves / Jorge Elias / Mauro Cesar Cunha / Mônica Bender / Nana Alves / Olga Dalsenter / Ricardo Fruque

PHOTOS

Sílvio Pozatto/Cláudia Mascarenhas

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION

Leila Abrahão

PRODUCTION DIRECTION

Alexandre Pring

HOME / ESPETÁCULOS / WORKSHOPS / VÍDEOS / CENOGRAFIA / FIGURINOS / MARIONETES / ADEREÇOS / DESENHO GRÁFICO / PINTURA EM TECIDO / CLIPPING / CURRICULO / CONTATO / LINKS

El Mágico Circo de Espuma - english