Bamboo and Basin

Argument

BÀMBOL AND PALANGANA are two friends who have always lived together in a safe environment at home, but one fine day they feel the need to go out into the world to discover the greatest secret of life.

This is how they begin an initiation journey that will take them to a classroom

full of children where, according to the message that Bàmbol has written on his hand, they will find that precious secret. At the beginning of their adventure they begin to be afraid of their own steps. In this way, his journey also becomes a flight forward.

Once in the classroom, they will continue searching frantically between tables, chairs and blackboards, in addition to all the other educational materials that are there, to finally discover the great secret of life, which is none other than knowing how to write, read and Draw to acquire knowledge during your growth stage.

After discovering the great secret, they will no longer be afraid of their footsteps.

What's more, they will have disappeared and Bàmbol and Palangana, very worried, will leave the classroom and go looking for their steps, because it turns out that now they can no longer live without them. They need them to continue advancing and to be able to acquire knowledge, while the two friends grow as people.

This work talks about the fears that appear during childhood.

Touching on this subject is very delicate, but the author, Ad de Bont, is a master in this field: pedagogical theater for primary school children.

Using the techniques and the interpretative game of the clown, Bàmbol is the white clown and Palangana the August. Both characters support each other, they fight, tease, get angry, help each other... just like children do when they play.

The show is very dynamic and surrounds the children for an exciting forty minutes.

The characters enter the classroom fleeing from his footsteps, search for the secret, take refuge on a table, see visions, speak with the spirit of a very loved and admired person, share the same dream (the dream of flying), turn off the lights and lower the blinds to be able to talk to their shadows with the help of a flashlight... and finally find the greatest secret of life.

Who has not ever dreamed that they could fly freely? Is it mysterious? Are you scared or is it a wonderful feeling? Who has never been a little afraid in the middle of the dark?

Characters raise this and more issues in a fun, carefree, playful and didactic way.