Show supported by INAEM

National Institute of Arts and Music

for the 2023 and 2024 tour

SYNOPSIS

All of us who live on Earth emerge from the clay, so our pitcher is like our soul, and we must make sure it's always full so we don't dry up.

Jacinta, the protagonist of our story, will hear these words from her Nana and, after her pitcher is stolen, she will have to embark on a learning journey to discover and recognize herself, overcoming obstacles and trials and taking responsibility for saving herself and us from THE DROUGHT. A journey to also help us recognize NATURE as part of our being.

What we forget or lose is worth recovering to the point of having to take a journey into the confines of the unknown?

The recovery of cultural identity, historical and even family memory. The recovery of something as vital as WATER, the source of life.

It's a key piece of dramatic literature for children in Mexico. Its author, Maribel Carrasco, describes it as an Alice in Wonderland within the Mexican imagination and cultural identity. It's a black-and-white fantasy, the creation of an austere and incomplete world that demands active, intelligent, and free participation from the viewer, child or adult.

It's a childhood story to share with the family, where dreams and memories intertwine. A symbiosis of reality and fantasy that takes place at the bottom of a dry well, an arid Mexican landscape that reminds us of Juan Rulfo's mythical landscapes but also reminds us of many of our own landscapes in need of water.

From an aesthetic of magical realism, we will explore this story full of metaphors and symbols, through Karlik's unique dance-theater language, with gestures, words, video scenes, and sound and light landscapes.

ARTISTIC-TECHNICAL TEAM

Author: Maribel Carrasco

Direction: Cristina D. Silveira

Assistant Director: Ana García

Set design: La Nave del Duende

Costume design: Patricio Luengo

Design and production of masks and props: Chloé Julie Bucas

Musical composition: Álvaro Rodríguez Barroso

Video scene: Alexandre Carod, Félix Méndez and Alicia Casado

Choreographies: Cristina D. Silveira

Lighting Design: David Pérez

Stage design: The Mill, The Goblin's Ship and Antonio Ollero

Costume making: Patricio Luengo and Myriam Cruz

Photograph: Jorge Armestar

Production and technical direction: David Pérez Hernando