Titiribióticos. Puppets for children in hospitals

CRISTIAN PALACIOS

Teherán

Conferencia; Theater Market for Children and Young adults; 2013

Kanoon, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.

Tititiribioticos is a programme developped by Omar Álvarez, Roxana Bernaule and Vanina Grossi whose lines seem very simple at first sight: to make puppets shows for childrens in hospitals of the province of Buenos Aires. The show takes place ?at the foot of the bed?, in a face-to-face exchange betwenn a child and a puppeteer, based on the transformation and resignify of surgical material that change in penguins, fantastic animals, quirky characters. But the Titiribioticos are determined to tell a story, a full play, and this is what makes them different from other similar projects. Its members are trained with tools aimed at acquire strategies for performing the shows. That is why we believe that this is not a social action programme, but a theatrical event in its purest expression. What we propose in this paper is to analyze the transformative potential, not only therapeutic, of the true aesthetic experience, through documents and testimonies of its creators and its audience, the children, their families and the hospital staff. The work of titiribióticos interpellates creators and researchers of Theatre for Young Audiences in all his ways; and bring us new question about the different senses of all that we do.