Anita Maravillas, protagonist of the first creative residency of the year at TOPIC.

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The Anita Maravillas company has been the first ‘inhabitant’ of the TOPIC creation residence this 2023. Immersed in the process of creating its next show, ‘Andereño’, which will be released in October of this year.

“We want to rescue the image and the work of those teachers of the Republic. We have chosen a brave teacher from a small town, who creates her own school in the forest, revolutionizing its operation and breaking with a gray past. Happiness invades the school, until the adults start a war. A true story, translated into a tale, with a fable imaginary, since our protagonists are small animals. We have opted for a very puppeteer aesthetic, an imaginary that only puppets can offer us”, says Miren Larrea, one of the company’s founders.

In 2022, Anita Maravillas passed the first phase of table work, where the different ideas and proposals need to be tested. In the second phase of the show they held a residency, in June, in Harrobia-Bilbo. They are currently in phase three, the one that is being carried out at TOPIC, where the company is working to be able to present final decisions to future collaborators in props, costumes, scenery… “we try to investigate the needs that our protagonists (puppets) will have, and how they will dialogue with the rest of the stage space when we enter the fourth phase, the final before the premiere”.

The premiere of the work will take place at the Zornotza Aretoa, where they will carry out the last phase of the Residency, on October 7, 2023, and afterwards ‘Andereño’ will be performed in different locations in the Basque Country.

Anita Maravillas has been collaborating with TOPIC for years. In Las Cotton, their last show, they did a post-premiere residency to adjust it for the Spanish premiere at FETEN. We are puppeteers, continues Miren, a company that has been exclusively dedicated to puppet theater since its origins. TOPIC is a museum and puppet creation center, we believe that the link is necessary to be connected with the different agents of the same sector.

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Mondays: Closed

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Access to the theater will be closed 15 minutes after the start of the performance.

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