I am a Queen!
Queen has (in 2024)the 40th anniversary of the famous song: I've got to break free. We all remember Freddie Mercury and his great performing as a house wife with the vacuum cleaner.
To mark the occasion, we're celebrating this great artist and creating our own puppet version of the house wife who sings, to break out of the laundry prison.
Ruth is tired of her job as a washerwoman. She don’t intend to spend the rest of her life washing other people's shit. With these words she puts down her broom, and sings out her longings and frustrations to her own great relief.
In teams of 2 puppeteers, we use the technique with 3 human hands and a puppet body. We relate to the melody, but Ruth herself sings out her drama with her own voice and eventually gains unexpected power.
We place a lot of emphasis on character development through detailed animation between 3 hands. The figure must appear so alive that the audience believes it is real. When the audience and the Figure play as a team, then the magic of the Figure Theater occurs.
Directed by Roque Jimenez Palacios
Choreogaphy: Liv Kjersti Iversen
Puppet Players : Roque and Liv Kjersti
Puppetmaker : Liv Kjersti
Soundmix and technician: Torbjørn Grindheim
Technical raider:
Sound system with aux. 2 lamps with barn door, black background.
1 microphone. (We can bring our own). We bring our own table.
Stage place. Floor, 3x3 m. We bring our own table.
Duration: 10 min
Set up: 1 our. Take down: 20 min, or less.
2 actors. We need 1 person for wery simpel help for lights and 2 sound track.
Max audians 120. Show for adults.
Price: We make an agreement
On the left you can see the full recording with the audience.
The Date
The Date is an exclusive 6-minute show without words.
The audience will gain insight into the character's development from its creation to his first date with his loved one.
We build a figure directly on stage, and who eventually appears as an actor in his own theater, where he plays himself without limit in the relentless drama of love.
The date presents a good example of wordless puppetry, sensitive and detailed puppet animation telling the story.
Idea and direction: Roque Jimenez Palacios
Puppet players: Roque J Palacios and Liv Kjersti Iversen
Stage :
Technical raider:
Sound system with aux. 2 lamps with barn door, black background.
1 microphone. (We can bring our own). We bring our own table.
Stage place. Floor, 3x3 m. We bring our own table.
Duration: 6 min
Set up: 20 min. Take down: 10 min
2 actors. We need 1 person for wery simpel help for lights and 2 sound track.
Max audians 120. Show for adults.
Price: We make an agreement