The exhibition at L’Estaquirot Teatre invites us to take a journey through their 50 years of puppetry: a tour to savour some of their exploits, their moments, their adventures and daring actions. A puppeteer’s life can only be defined, in fact, as an adventure, always driven by the romantic winds of the era that you have been lucky enough to be in. In the 70s, when they started, the winds that blew were those of Democracy and the new ideas of an open, free and committed culture, eager to change the world. The tools of this daring were theatre, puppets, a workshop, a van, a group of friends and a close identification with the local Catalan culture. This is the backbone that has shaped their mission.

Entering this exhibition is like reliving this long period of L’Estaquirot, travelling through its stages, its whirlwinds of activity, savouring the ritual essences of the shows, enjoying the nobility of the craft. It is like entering the exciting journey of these three adventurers of the immediate fantastic, Núria Benedicto, Olga Jiménez and Bertu Albà, plus the playful and ironic vision of someone who looks at it from within and from without, that of Alfred Casas. A quartet full of inexhaustible ideas and with rocket-like jet engines. Workers of the show, as they like to define themselves. In reality, artists of the concrete and of enthusiasm, of the fully lived and realistic creative adventure.

Flying and having their feet on the ground: this paradox defines their work. A manual of sensible madness, a journey that embodies what is said and done: L’Estaquirot Teatre.

Un cuarteto lleno de ideas inagotables. Trabajadores del espectáculo, como a ellos les gusta definirse. En realidad, artistas de lo concreto y del entusiasmo, de la aventura creadora plenamente vivida y realista.

Volar y tener los pies en el suelo: esta paradoja define su quehacer. Un manual de sensata locura, una travesía que encarna el ‘dicho y hecho’: L’Estaquirot Teatre.