- © Susana Neves

OLO – A Solo About A Solo

In the beginning, it was just me and a puppet in an empty space. It was me discovering what this puppet was capable of doing. With persistence and repetition, I understood that it was the puppet itself that was discovering itself. I then realized that this was a solo about a solo.

This puppet piece is animated by a question: is it possible to represent what happens when we lock ourselves alone in a rehearsal room, in a studio, with the goal of creating something new? What is discovered and what is invented in this chimera? What was already there? What does the black box record? Are we truly alone when we are on a solo stage? What use is what we have lived, read, dreamed, desired, feared... What use is what has already been done by others, in other times and in other places?

This piece also speaks to us about the role of memory as a process of evocation that relates to life unfolding (a process of discovery).

The matter is eventually very serious, fortunately it's in good hands - it's been handed over to a puppet. OLO could also be the name of the little man we observe, like someone observing a strange child playing with everything and nothing. A creature that persists in hesitating between observing and building the world it inhabits, or invites us to inhabit.


Igor Gandra · May 2014


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