Article about Titiriguiri’s performance at the Tolosa Puppet Festival 2018, written by Toni Rumbau, published in Titiresante.

I must confess that I did not know this prestigious company from Madrid, which for years has been working in a line of works of very elaborate workmanship and careful aesthetics, and which usually combines video with puppetry and actors. Directed by Sonia Muñoz, creator and founder of the company and author of the show, El ratoncito no nace se hace is a play that seeks to explain the little myth of the tooth fairy, which has become a deeply rooted belief and custom in many Spanish families.
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Sonia Muñoz does it with an idyllic recreation of the world of a family of mice living in a popular neighborhood. But it does so by inserting the story into that of an older married couple composed of a bombonera and a dentist, a romantic story of forgetfulness and wonderful moments. And it is between the magical interstices of the encounter and the love affair of this couple that the magical story of the mice sneaks in, both adding up to a very well plotted storyline.
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The most interesting and seductive aspect of the proposal is the language used: the precision of the animation video projected in the form of a mapping in the panel that acts as an altarpiece and that can be the façade of the house, a room in it, the dentist’s office or the subway interior of the pipes and downpipes where these unwanted companions of the human species have been living since time immemorial. On the panel, doors and windows open, and from the ends of the pipes, puppet mice come out.
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A language of great complexity that is resolved in a simple appearance and that takes us to a happy combination of cinema and theater, when on a screen the actors are able to get out of it to re-enter the filmic dynamics. As it is easy to imagine and as we were able to see, in a Leidor Theater full to the brim with schoolchildren, the play captivated the children from the first minute to the last.
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If we add to this a very successful performance by Sonia Muñoz and Bernardo Rivera, the two actors-puppeteers of the play, with a pleasant stage presence and clear diction, it must be said that the play reached levels rarely achieved in this type of shows aimed at families and schoolchildren. The animated images projected on video were created by Francisco Piris, Monigotes estudio 2.0 and the audiovisual programming by Michael Fernández, as well as the music by Jesús Mañeru. An unusually large production that garnered hearty applause from the enthusiastic audience.
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Sonia Muñoz and Bernardo Rivera