Gran Zum Zum
Creation
When Wee Bee is stepped on by a huge cow, she and the smallest animals in the valley decide they’ve had enough. But how can they make the bigger animals respect them when they are such tiny creatures?
Designed to be performed in English, Catalan, and Spanish, Big Wee Bee presents a visual theatre story in which shadows and puppets emerge in surprising ways from the narrator’s own costume. She tells the story while managing the commotion unfolding inside her.
Photography: Roser Pascual
Photo edition: Sònia Gardés
The project
After several projects exploring contemporary ways of integrating puppetry into dramaturgy, Sònia Gardés presents a proposal with a sustainable design that seeks to explore the travelling roots of puppet theatre, combining contemporary technological possibilities with the ancestral art of shadow theatre. A compact performance that can travel anywhere by any means of transport.
The stories we have heard stay within us forever and have shaped who we are. But what are these traditional stories we have inherited? What values have they passed on to us, and for what kind of world? If we want a new world, we will need new beginnings, endings, and developments for our stories.
Big Wee Bee offers an interactive oral and visual experience in an intimate format, where traditional stories are told through visual support that sparks the imagination of audiences of all ages. Through a costume filled with integrated resources, shadow puppets move in and out of the narrator, creating a universe where scenography, costume, and performance merge into a single element.