Cósimo

Cósimo is a child. A child who looks towards the future. A child with no liking for the past, a child lost in the present.

Cósimo does not come down.

Cósimo has to learn that in order to win you have to lose, that in order to dream you have to be awake, that in order to grow you have to forgive.

Cósimo is the story of a child and his troubles, which are not his own, which belong to everyone: his parents, his friends, his rights and his duties.

Cósimo is a child who loses patience, who climbs a tree to say enough.

Cósimo drinks from the springs of Italo Calvino, dives into his “barón rampante” and surfaces transformed, to tell us, to shout at us or to whisper to us that there are things in life that matter, that principles still exist, that words are not carried off by the wind unless we let them, and above all that we are responsible for our own decisions.

Cósimo is a bittersweet smile, a flash of colour, a pretext, a toy for the stage.

Cósimo is a story that happens on a stage.

Words are superfluous.

Light.

— Andrés Beladiez. Autumn 2003

Credits

Text: Chris Baldwin

Performers: Pedro Casas (Cósimo), Mario Sánchez (Papageno / father) and Isabel Alguacil (Viola / mother)

Set design: Mónica Florensa

Costumes: Mónica Florensa

Costume making: Ludy Ruiz

Clown and movement coaches: Natalia Álvarez and Marta Marco

Lighting design: Andrés Beladiez

Sound editing: Alfonso Guijarro

Light and sound technician: Diego Velázquez

Production: Mimán Teatro (Julia Martínez and Isabel Alguacil)

Direction: Andrés Beladiez