Enduring love,
despite all odds
Don’t miss any opportunity to see, KULUNKA TEATRO, Spain’s premiere mask and physical theatre company, during the 2024 world tour!!!
“Unless you’re having a baby Saturday night, see this show; if you are, see it Sunday.”
Los Angeles Stage & Cinema
SHOW
André y Dorine, first show developed by the company, began its international career in october 2010 at Colombia’s prestigious Manizales International Theatre Festival.
Since then, Kulunka theatre company has performed the play around 600 times in more than 30 countries, including long and highly successful seasons at the Fernán Gómez Theatre in Madrid, the Poliorama Theatre in Barcelona and the LATC in Los Angeles (California).
Genre: Masked Theatre
Audience: Adults-Youth
Format: Medium
Language: No text
Duration: 80 Minutes
ABOUT THE PLAY
André & Dorine is a poignant depiction of the enduring love between an elderly couple as their lives are disrupted, but not overcome, by dementia.
This non-verbal theatre piece uses movement, puppetry, and mask to celebrate the shared lives of a pair of artists – André with his typewriter, Dorine with her cello – and how they relive and reinvent their love together as Alzheimer’s becomes a permanent part of their relationship.
The play is a rollercoaster ride of laughter and tears, a silent maelstrom of emotions conveyed through masks that masterfully navigates between drama and comedy, life and death, love and oblivion.
A show without borders which, in 10 years, has been performed in over 30 countries worldwide.
“ LOVE AND FORGETFULNESS. Kulunka takes the audience from one emotional extreme to the other, provoking helpless laughter one minute and a lump in your throat the next. It’s been years since I have felt anything remotely similar.”
(El País)
TEASER
JOSÉ DAULT
GARBIÑE INSAUSTI
EDU CÁRCAMO
Directed By
IÑAKI RIKARTE
Assistant Director
ROLANDO SAN MARTÍN
Playwrights
GARBIÑE INSAUSTI
JOSÉ DAULT
IÑAKI RIKARTE
EDU CÁRCAMO
ROLANDO SAN MARTÍN
Set Design
LAURA GÓMEZ
Technical Director
PABLO R. SEOANE
Set Building
Décors PYN (Productions Yves Nicol)
Lighting Design
CARLOS SAMANIEGO “SAMA”
Costume Design
IKERNE GIMÉNEZ
GARBIÑE INSAUSTI
Composer
YAYO CÁCERES
US Booking manager
STELLATION ENTERTAINMENT
General bookin manager
MIKEL INSAUSTI
AWARDS
“CRITICAL EYE” AWARD
RTVE. 2018 (SPAIN)
BEST ENSEMBLE AWARD
LOS ÁNGELES CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS. 2015 (USA)
BEST SPECIALITY AWARD (MASKS)
LOS ÁNGELES CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS. 2015 (USA)
BEST PRESENTED PRODUCTION
OVATION AWARDS NOMINATION. Los Ángeles 2015 (USA)
BEST CHARACTERISATION
CERES. 2015(SPAIN)
AUDIENCE PRIZE
BE FESTIVAL. Birmingham 2011 (UK)
BEST DRAMATURGY
BE FESTIVAL. Birmingham 2011 (UK)
BEST FOREIGN SHOW
FIT DE LA HABANA. 2011 (CUBA)
COMPANY
KULUNKA TEATRO
Established in 2010 in the Basque region of Spain actors Garbiñe Insausti and Jose Dault, Kulunka Teatro has moved from strength to strength, winning over audiences and critics alike from its first production, André & Dorine, to its most recent success, Solitude, which garnered the Spanish equivalent of a Tony Award for Best Play in 2018.
The company’s mission is to experiment with a wide variety of stage languages in order to produce theatre that is vibrant, contemporary, committed and strongly connected to reality. In addition to enjoying tremendous success at home (and throughout Spain) the company has toured extensively throughout Europe, South America, Asia, and the United States, winning awards at the Birmingham European Theatre Festival in 2011, and the La Habana International Theatre Festival (2011).
After earning an acting degree from the Madrid Royal School for Performing Arts in 2007, José Dault continued his training with Philippe Gaulier, Mar Navarro, Will Keen, Arianne Moushkine, Andrés Lima, Alfredo Sanzol, Alvaro Tato, Veronique Norday and Yayo Cáceres.
He has worked as an actor with Gato Negro, Centro Dramático Aragonés, Tranvía Teatro, Perez de la Fuente Producciones, LaSed Teatro and Focus. In 2010 he founded his own company: Kulunka Teatro.
Co-author, actor and producer of "André & Dorine" and "Solitudes" / Co-director of "Edith Piaf, Taxidermy of a Sparrow.”.
Garbiñe Insausti studied Dramatic Arts at the Madrid Royal School for Performing Arts, Music Therapy at the UNED (Spanish Open University) and trained as a specialist in voice pathologies at the University of Alcalá. She then continued her training at Teatro de la Abadía and the TNT in Seville, with maestros such as Mar Navarro, Hernán Gené, Carlos Aladro, José Luis Gómez, Veronique Norday, Ricardo Iniesta and Alfonso Zurro, and in France, Italy and Poland with Philippe Gaulier, Arianne Mouchkine, Antonio Fava and The song of the Goat.
She has worked for companies such as Imprebís, Yllana, Atalaya and Gato Negro, among others. In 2020 she founded her own company: Kulunka Teatro, with which she has toured over 30 countries worldwide.
In 2017 she was short-listed for the MAX Awards, winning Best Lead Actress for her work in EDITH PIAF, Taxidermy of a Sparrow. She combines her work in the theatre with her enthusiasm for singing, and has collaborated with many famous artists, including Kepa Junkera, Iñaki Salvador and the Batumi Symphony Orchestra in Georgia, among others.
Producer, co-author, actress and creator of the masks used in "André & Dorine" and "Solitudes" / Actress in "Edith Piaf, Taxidermy of a Sparrow".
Iñaki Rikarte has a degree from the Madrid Royal School for Performing Arts. He has acted with the CDN and CNTC, working with directors such as Ernesto Caballero, Eduardo Vasco, Alfredo Sanzol, Fernando Bernués, Ana Zamora and Ignacio García May. In the Basque Country, he regularly collaborates with the theatre company Tanttaka and has directed a dozen or so shows for different groups, including: Joven CNTC (El desdén con el desdén), Kulunka Teatro (André & Dorine, Solitudes, QuitamiedoS) and Teatro Paraíso (Pulgarcito, ÚniKo).
He was short-listed for Best Lead Actor at the Max Awards 2018 and for Best Set Direction at the Max Awards 2020, and won the ADE's 'José Luis Alonso' Award in 2020 for Best New Director.
Co-author and director of "André & Dorine" and "Solitudes" / Author and director of "QuitamiedoS".
In 2010, he joined the Kulunka theatre company to help create André & Dorine. He continues to tour both with that production and with Solitudes, visiting over 30 different countries and receiving many prestigious awards and accolades.
Actor and co-author of "André & Dorine" and "Solitudes".
Rolando San Martín is a theatre, circus, dance and performance director and playwright. He has worked for many different companies and producers, including Yllana, Tragaleguas, Teatro Español, Cía. Ana Pasadena, Kulunka Teatro, the National Drama Centre, Teatro Circo Price, Si Acaso Teatro, Cía. Psirc and Cía. Mono Habitado, among others. He is co-founder of the company Twisting the Balance.
Over recent years he has directed over 30 circus, theatre and performance shows, several of which have won awards, including the Max Award for New Shows in 2008, for Desde lo Invisible, First Prize with Silbatriz Pons at the 2014 Bilbao Act-Festival, for Episodio 08, and Best OFF Show alongside the Circo Deriva company at the TAC Festival in Valladolid, for Ya es tiempo de hablar del amor.
Assistant director and co-author of "André & Dorine" and "Solitudes".
CONTACT
Company
kulunkateatro@gmail.com