Electric Circus

Netherlands

Mono, The Monkey

LGO. DO CHIADO R. GARRETT

6, 7 May at 6.30pm 8 May at 11.30am

MUSEU DA MARIONETA

6 May at 9pm and 10.30pm

TEATRO MARIA MATOS

7, 8 May at 9pm

JARDIM DAS ESTACAS - TEATRO MARIA MATOS

9 May at 5pm

Authors, construction and manipulation: Mirjam Langemeijer and Fred Abels Technique: Robotics and Puppets For audiences over: For all ages Time: Aprox. 20 min.

Electric Circus is a collaboration between inventor Fred Abels & puppeteer Mirjam Langemeijer. They combine authentic puppetry with modern robot techniques. Electric Circus creates memorable and unconventional robots, using them in their street performances.

They have created a little circus monkey that looks very alive.

It jumps and screams, rides a bike, makes a musical performance, does its tricks.... But above all this little monkey is able to touch young and old right in the heart!

The robots look truly lifelike and are moved by remote control: a technique borrowed from the film-industry known as "animatronics", now mostly replaced by computer-animation.

The use of animatronics in theatre and street performances is not done very often and produces a surprising effect.

The player/operator and the robot mix with the unsuspecting crowd, from there - mostly unnoticed - the robot is directed using the remote control. This allows the robot to immediately respond to the reactions of the audience.