Carmen

• Duration: 1 h
• Spain
• Adult audience
• 709 vues

Bambalina Teatre

The beating of palmas and fans opening and closing, swirling shawls, taconeos, red carnations tucked behind ears, live music... With Bambalina Teatre, puppets and puppeteers are indistinguishable.

Passionate embraces, fevered “bulerías”, corridas and deadly duels. All this and so much more…

Their latest creation revisits one of the most universal and endearing modern myths, first committed to the page by Mérimée and subsequently immortalised in Bizet’s opera: Carmen. In the hands of this celebrated Spanish puppetry and object theatre company, the classic tale becomes a visual and musical spectacle packed with irony and humour. The Valencia-based troupe do away with hoary cliché to offer a cutting, original perspective on the universal themes of womanhood, seduction, social rules and transgression and, of course, the power of machismo…