The Handimen are in the neighbourhood. They are equipped with everything necessary to fix anything. A whole life dedicated to maintenance services has turned them into true professional handymen, an infallible pair forged over the years through their job which they exhibit very proudly. In comparison, MacGyver is quite the amateur.

Don’t be carried along by the first impression though. Their art might not just reside in fixing things. Many surprises await behind those aprons, those toolboxes, that old radio cassette player, the ladder they carry or their working boots.

The Handimen offer an absurd sense of humour full of tumbles, magical moments, funny choreographies and scenes filled with tenderness for the audience’s delight. Go out in the streets and look for them. You might find them anywhere up to their old tricks.

The show is based on the premise that the characters must interact with any type of audiences  through the sense of humour, both directly and indirectly. From there, we started reflecting on how we would approach comicality and under what circumstances.

We observed the handymen’s world, the repairmen’s world, and we discovered all the artistic possibilities it offered: dozens of objects and tools to explore, the possibility to present in any street or square, in enclosed locations, in theatres or in non conventional spaces, since these characters belong to many different places.

We also decided to work in couple, taking as a reference the classical comedy duos such as Laurel and Hardy, where the one is incomplete without the other.

The clown is the language from which the show derives, and we decided to work with a bigger mask, leaving the traditional red nose for the expressive mask, which covers the whole artist’s head. We work from the absence of text and the subtlety of body language.

Everything takes us to absurd comedy full of tumbles and clumsiness, combined with tender moments, through which we meet these unforgettable Handymen.