About Us

Nowadays, the Truks - Puppets Theater is one of the Brazilian best theater companies for children in the country. Working since 1990, it became well known for participating of many great audience TV programs.

Since then, it conquered public admiration and affection, making theaters crowded throughout Brazil, and consolidated itself as a stable theatrical group identified by its artistic quality and extreme professionalism, proved by the accomplishment of more than 2500 presentations of its shows. Equally, it is recognized by the critic, having been laureate with the most important prizes for the category, like Mambembe, of the Ministry of Culture, APCA - Association From São Paulo's Critics of Arts, Coca Cola Young Theater and the Incentive from the São Paulo Office of Culture.

The group divides its calendar among the presentations of its repertoire shows in theaters, schools, institutions and other places in the whole country and abroad and, simultaneously, gives animation theater courses and workshops, and works in the advertising area, in films, trade fairs and several events. Truks highlights for the singular characteristic of its work, when developing a peculiar technique of puppet animation, inspired by the centennial Japanese art of " Bunraku ". Each character is manipulated, totally to the public's eye, at the same time for three actors that offer its precise human movements, and with strong theatrical intention, that enchants public of all ages. Truks combines a rich drama story with this aesthetics of quite refined scenic movement, that offers to children possibilities to sensitize and to emotionalize with pretty stories, that respects and valorize their imaginative universe, offering them interesting world visions, instigating and creative. It seeks, this way, the complicity with the small ones. Speaking to them directly through the "magic" puppets, it wishes to make its artistic activity one more instrument to make critical citizens, but above all sensitive citizens' formation, ready to answer, with affection and respect to the next, to the challenges of the future.