The Ibero-American Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People (Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro Infantil y Juvenil (FITIJ)) for Building New Audiences for the Performing Arts is a project run by the Fundación Teatro CÚCARA-MÁCARA, a cultural and creative industry that seeks to become established as a space where Ibero-American groups, male and female creators, critics and playwrights specialising in theatre for boys, girls and young people come together to exchange experiences, artistic, technical and aesthetic ideas, stage poetics and interdisciplinary research on playwriting in the age of globalisation.
During the FITIJ national and foreign companies stage plays with actors, theatre-dance performances, puppet shows, shadow plays, circus performances, magic, clowns, black theatre, miniature theatre, pantomime, gestural theatre, oral narrative and musical shows that attest to the broad and balanced cultural diversity of the groups taking part.
The 5th festival features two Spanish companies, Compañía Ultramarinos de Lucas, which will be performing two pieces – one for children, Pezes (Fish), and another for teenagers, La sombra Lear (The shadow Lear) – and the Markeliñe company with its show La isla desconocida (The unknown island). During the festival both groups will teach refresher workshops to teachers of pre-school , primary and secondary school children and to young drama students of higher secondary arts courses.
During the FITIJ national and foreign companies stage plays with actors, theatre-dance performances, puppet shows, shadow plays, circus performances, magic, clowns, black theatre, miniature theatre, pantomime, gestural theatre, oral narrative and musical shows that attest to the broad and balanced cultural diversity of the groups taking part.
The 5th festival features two Spanish companies, Compañía Ultramarinos de Lucas, which will be performing two pieces – one for children, Pezes (Fish), and another for teenagers, La sombra Lear (The shadow Lear) – and the Markeliñe company with its show La isla desconocida (The unknown island). During the festival both groups will teach refresher workshops to teachers of pre-school , primary and secondary school children and to young drama students of higher secondary arts courses.