Magda Puig & Andreu Martínez (La Mula)
Country: Spain
TEMPORADA ALTA
Biography
LA MULA , formed by Magda Puig Torres and Andreu Martínez Costa, is a theater company that works with visual arts, puppets and space. Interested in perception, its alteration and playful game. Understanding the scene as a space for expression, its work is marked by a plastic theater and research in visual dramaturgy.
Magda Puig Torres is a graphic designer, actress, and scenic creator whose work explores the intersection between performing and visual arts. Her artistic practice focuses on exploring visual compositions on the stage, using plastic elements, with a special interest in color and perception. During the 2023–2024 season, she was the artist-in-residence at Teatre Lliure in Barcelona.
Andreu Martínez is a puppeteer, actor, scenic creator, and a researcher. After performing at major internationals theaters and festivals, collaborating with companies such as El Conde de Torrefiel, Philippe Genty, and Plexus Polaire, he has specialized in Visual Theatre. His work focuses on scenic images and the boundaries between the animated and inanimated body. An interest he extends into theoretical and pedagogical exploration.
Portfolio & Latest Theatre Performances :
THAUMA
Coproduction of Teatre Lliure, Nilak, Figurteatret, La Mula
Premiered in Teatre Lliure May 2024
Trailer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TayW7WgD6XXGs3dtwkNm9ugIF6rK7MFl/view?usp=sharing
Awards:
Best Hybrid Scene Award – Teatre Barcelona 24-25
Best New Trends – Critics Awards 2024
Best Set Design – Puppet Fair Lleida 2025
Best Innovative Performance – Puppet Fair Lleida 2025
Price of International Jury – Puppet Fair Lleida 2025
Best Set Design – Max Awards 2025
Nominated:
Best direction – Max Awards 2025
Best theatre play – Max Awards 2025
Best light design – Max Awards 2025
Best light design – Butaca Awards 2024
Best sound design- Butaca Awards 2024
Latest Thauma performances:
24th OCTOBER 2025 – KURSAAL TEATRE MANRESA (CATALONIA)
4th OCTOBER 2025 – MESS FESTIVAL SARAJEVO (BOSNIA)
5th SEPTEMBER 2025 – FITT- NEW DRAMATURGIES TARRAGONA (CATALONIA)
26th JULY – FESTIVAL TEATRO OLITE (SPAIN)
18th JUNE 2025 – MADFERIA – MADRID (SPAIN)
3rd MAY 2025 – FIRA TITELLES DE LLEIDA (CATALONIA)
11th APRIL 2025 – TEATRE EL JARDÍ – FIGUERES (CATALONIA)
3rd APRIL 2025 – MOSTRA D’IGUALADA (CATALONIA)
27th MARCH 2025 – TEATRE CAL BOLET – VILAFRANCA DEL PENEDÈS (CATALONIA)
22nd FEBRUARY 2025 – PRINCIPAL D’OLOT (CATALONIA)
MANUAL FOR LIVING BEINGS – 2025
Coproduction of: Figurteatret, La Mula, Grec Festival, Center of free Arts Joan Brossa.
Premiered in Norway at Vinterlys Festival 2025.
Premiered in Spain at Grec Festival 2025.
Latest Manual performances:
26th SEPTEMBER 2025 – MAGMATICA POETRY FESTIVAL OLOT (CATALONIA)
17th and 18th JULY 2025- GREC FESTIVAL – CCCB BARCELONA (CATALONIA)
14th JUNE 2025 – NILAK – ÀGER (CATALONIA)
13-14th FEBRUARY 2025 – VINTERLYS FESTIVAL (NORWAY)
9th FEBRUARY 2025 – FIGURTEATRET (NORWAY)
Thauma
Concept of the Performance :
Thauma is a journey through an amazed mind.
It works like a poetic game, in which top and bottom, background and figure, the big and the small are confused, creating different ways of seeing the same thing.
It follows the codes of the graphic novel and the theater of objects, proposing a landscape that gradually opens up, revealing its interior.
Thauma is a scenic poem focused on the ability to marvel and remain suspended in a poetic terrain that has no purpose, no conclusion, and no ending.
Thauma appeals to humor, beauty, mystery and the unexpected, to an astonishment that does not formulate thought, but can be the seed of thinking itself.
Artistic Statement
Understanding that one of the biggest problems affecting the contemporary subject is disaffection with what surrounds us, La Mula developed a piece that investigates the concept of thauma. Aristotle, in the first book of his Metaphysics, points to thauma – wonder, astonishment – as the origin of knowledge and philosophy. They conceive Thauma as a stage poem. A piece to discover a different point of view of things assumed. Awe (astonishment) entails a break with the world, a split, a radical feeling of strangeness in the face of known reality. They are interested in perception and playful game, generating a curious look from the viewer. Someone once said “Do politics, because if you don’t, someone will do it for you and probably against you”, they say: “Let’s imagine, because if we don’t, someone will imagine for us, and probably against us”.
Trailer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TayW7WgD6XXGs3dtwkNm9ugIF6rK7MFl/view?usp=sharing
