A MARIONET was founded in Coimbra in 2000 with the goals of opening a space for the flourishing of new professionals in the different areas of dramatic creation and exploring new artistic paths, different from those developed in the country.

Eight years later, our identity defines itself in constant movement, having acquired some surprising characteristics which raise questions like: is this theatre? Some of the elements which contribute to this evolving "personality" may be:

The constant need for experiment, which reflects itself in a huge formal and content variety at each new work;

The investment in new artists and new ideas;

The collaboration between all the work team in the rehearsal space, and discussion as a fundamental matter of each production;

The writing of new dramatic texts in Portuguese as well as the creation of original soundtracks and videos;

The unfinished state of our pieces, in the sense we recognize the impossibility of closing every sense and possibilities in a work.