ROTONDA TEATRO

The company

Rotonda Teatro Company, founded in Berlin in 2009,

is made up of three clowns (Raquel Rives, María Ruiz-Larrea and
Maria del Mar Taulés) and a music composer (Marc Teitler).
These four artists interpret the world through music, gesture and
humour as a whole of a part that they bring to life on stage.
Absurd, tragicomedy, clown, physical theatre and live music
melt into one concept.
Their aim is to laugh and make the audience laugh through a disconcerting,
hilarious and colourful performance.
The show

Cuarteto para piano. Concierto en clown mayor

The show is based on an everyday situation, a leak in the roof.

Mixing reality and fiction, poetry and humour, the characters (three clowns
and a composer) find that with every solution they try to impose several more
leaks appear as the situation rapidly descends into utter chaos and mayhem.
The three clowns live in a dangerous world governed, by the musical whims
of a tormented composer,
compose where anything can happen:from torrential rain,
floods, suicide attempts to gambling, skirmishes and murder…
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Genre: Comedy
Audience: Adults
Length: 45 minutes
Language: Without words
Number of actors: 4
Staging time: 2h.30min.
Removal time: 1h.

TECNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Stage: Minimum 9m. Wide x 5m. Depth.

Sound: 2000 W. sound equipment.
Minijack cable to connect the sound equipment of the room
with a lap top and the keyboard of the ensemble that is found on stage.
Sound monitor faced towards the stage.
Light: minimum 9 PC
Colour Filters
CAST

Actresses: Maria del Mar Taulés, Maria Ruiz-Larrea,

Raquel Rives
Composer: Marc Teitler
Direction assistance: Piero Partigianoni
Scenery: Rotonda Teatro
Light design: Alex
Props and wardrobe: Rotonda Teatro
Own creation and production
Marc Teitler (London, 1977)

Marc creates soundtracks for film & TV, produces albums and writes musicals.
He has worked with Dante Ariola, Aardman Animation, Marc Craste, Tom Morris,
The Splinter Dance Group, Yves Geleyn, Noam Murro, Michael Geoghegan and
David Hare and his soundtrack credits include '‘The Shave'’ and the VW Score
nominated ‘Hearts’ as well as numerous TV and cinema commercials.
His latest musical ‘Stuck On a Sunday’
Sunday was developed at the Royal Opera House
under the OperaGenesis programme for the stage in collaboration with writers/lyricists
Jason Morell & Timothy Walker. The UK Film Council are supporting the development
of a feature animation of ‘Stuck On a Sunday’ directed by BAFTA-winning
animator/director Marc Craste (who was Oscar shortlisted for ‘Varmints’, and
won a BAFTA for ‘JoJo in the Stars’).Marc is currently collaborating with Tim Phillips
on music/songs for ‘Juliet and Her Romeo’, the new production from Tom Morris
(‘(‘War Horse’, ‘Jerry Springer Opera’) and developing a contemporary dance piece
‘The Island of Komodo’ at Sadlers Wells with Bernd Wuertz. He has just finished
scoring Brad Watson’s new feature film ‘Room 7’.Other works include the opera
'Last Rites' (libretto by Timothy Walker) and the musical, 'Burn Me Dead', inspired by
the Russian novel 'The Master & Margarita' and co-written with Tim Phillips and
the Twitter Opera which premiered at The Royal Opera House in summer 2009.
Marc is in the final stages of recording an experimental pop album with Japanese
singer Ayu Okakita and a folk album with producer Peter Challis and singer/songwriter
Lucy Johnson.Marc was recently signed to award-winning music publisher BDi Music.
Marc has just been nominated for the 2010 Guardian Innovation Award for his Twitter
Opera and was a finalist in the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival’s VW Score
Competition with his soundtrack for Thomas Struck's animation "Hearts", recorded with
The Berlin Film Orchestra.
María Ruiz-Larrea (Barcelona 1978)

Maria trains at the Madrid theatre institute, María del Mar Navarro and
Andrés Hernández, which bases its work on the teachings of Jaques Lecoq,
attending classes by directors such as Jonathan Kay, Jango Edwards y
Peter Ercolano, Juan Loriente (Carnicería teatro), Elena Córdoba,
Cárlos Fernández, Alberto Gimenez , Jorge Eines, Philipe Gaulier, Amparo Valle
y Anne Dennis.
Over the next six years she appears in numerous shows including the
award-winning El Pequeño Teatro de Don Quijote by Teatro de la Luna,
¿Y tú qué comes? by CedePalo and Los días Móviles by the UAM company.
Maria simultaneously runs actor-led workshops as part of the educational
programme sponsored by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
In 2009 she travels to Ibiza to develop her skills as a clown at the
Eric de Bont institute.
Here she meets Mar and Raquel and makes the decision to move to Berlin
to establish a new theatre company: Rotonda Teatro is born.
Raquel Rives (Barcelona, 1974)

She started working in theatre in a walk acts and performance context.

She has studied Circus in “circus Tanger” as well as acting and mime
in ‘Escola d’Actor El Timbal’, both based in Barcelona. She did several clown
workshops with Joan Armengol, Merche Ochoa, Gabriel Chamé Buendia,
Michele Dallaire and Jonathan Kay.
Most recently,
recentl she attended a clowning course at the Academia de Primavera
at the Eric de Bont School in Ibiza, Spain (2009).
In 2004 she moved to Berlin. She acts as a clown in her one-woman show
‘La Vie en Rose’ in several theatres/spaces both in Berlin and internationally at
festivals such as Inund'art (Girona, Spain), Oerol festival (Holland) and the VI
Festival of Cultures (Mallorca, Spain).
She meets Mar Taulés in Berlin with whom she forms the duo Betty and Rosy.
Together they participate in many festivals including the Jahninselfest Musik Festival
(Regensburg), Berlin Lacht (Berlín, Germany), Mercantia (Italy), and the
III Middle European Circus Convention (Wroclaw, Poland), the Tent'a Bulles
Women Circus (Istanbul) and la Marató de l'Espectacle (Barcelona).
Maria del Mar Taulés (Barcelona 1975)

She visites the Nancy Tuñón Drama School in Barcelona and after a while decides
to move to Berlin where she descovers the clown.
Since then she started to work together with her partner Raquel Rives and creates
the Betty und Rosy clown partnershaft, she launches herself to the stages of the capital
city first, and now they work around Europe.
She improves her education with the british fool Jonathan Kay in Berlin and Eric de Bont
in his International Clown Institute in Ibiza.
She has colaborated in different festivals such as the Jahninselfest Musik Festival
in Regensburg, the Street theater Festival Mercantia in Italy, the III Middle European
Circus Convention in Wroclaw, Tent'a Bulles Women Circus project in Istambul,
Festival Inund'art in Girona or the Marató de l'Espectacle in Barcelona.
She is currently working as actress and clown in the Theater-Circus for children
at the Cabuwazi Circus project, in Berlin.
Rotonda Teatro
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12047 Berlin
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