Residences

L’ateuchus
(France)

On stage, a throne. On this throne, an ageing king, a theatrical king, a puppet. Lear, perhaps, off-camera, without his daughters, without his magnificence, without his court. At his side, his puppeteer, sometimes valet, sometimes jester, sometimes counter-power or counter-point. The cards are dealt, the castle is in place, and the play could go ahead as expected if it weren’t for the fine trickle of sand that creeps up the catwalk and into the cogs.

On t’a vu sur la pointe
(France)

The Great War for Civilisation is a must for anyone wanting to understand the Middle East, its complex history and its relations with the West. And… if you leaf through the French version, La Grande Guerre pour la Civilisation, you’ll notice that… there’s a chapter missing. The one entitled ‘Anything to wipe out a devil’. It’s the chapter that deals with Algeria, the War of Independence and the black decade. An adjustment? Forgetting? Censorship? Between history, memory, politics and the world of publishing, the protagonist shares his discoveries with the audience. Based on the principle of ‘documentary theatre’, fiction and reality mingle in a skilful interplay of light and shadow.

Le TOC Théâtre
(France)

The humanity and poetic potential of the characters in Walter Bilirit’s text struck a chord with actress and director Julie Rossignol, who is passionate about the evocative power of objects. So it is that Mr Tambour, Arman, José and Emilie, the owner of the bar ‘L’Océan’, all fragile characters who make up À la criée, find themselves on stage to the rhythm of the tides in TOC Théâtre’s second creation. Alone on stage with her puppets, Julie Rossignol tells the intersecting stories of these characters and their music.

Creation FMTM 2021

La Pendue
(France)

Based on the tale of La Jeune Fille sans mains by the Grimm brothers, La Manékine presents a luminous and bloody female initiation that has lost none of its topicality. A duo made up of a musician (Martin Kaspar Orkestar) and a puppeteer (Estelle Charlier), each with their own instruments, give the drama all the modern rhythm and relief.

Creation March 2024

Compagnie Sans Soucis
(France)

With TOD, or Théâtre d’Objets décomposés, Max Legoubé stages a gallery of characters played by an actor in the light of Matei Visniec’s ‘Théâtre décomposé’. Like a celestial outsider, the actor starts by taking vinyl records out of his suitcase… and invites the audience to choose one of the stories he has to tell! Each performance is an opportunity to discover a new body of texts steeped in surrealism, poetry and the absurd.

Creation November 2021
Presentation at FMTM 2023

Marcel Ebbers, musician and comic strip artist, is bringing his character Fifike to the stage. He will be playing the piano accompanied by puppeteer Lætitia Labre (ESNAM 7).

Drogheria Rebelot
(Italy)

Sometimes things aren’t what they seem. When Jolie feels a presence in the woods next to her new home, nobody believes her, until her teddy bear disappears. Jolie gets lost in the dark, mysterious forest looking for him, but Grandpa Woodknot and Grandma Bark will help her tame her fear.

Creation 2022
Presentation at FMTM 2023

Compagnie Méandres
(France)

Death rituals from a child’s perspective. In theatre, puppets and songs, based on the book by Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson..

Creation FMTM 2021

Compagnie Atipik
(France)

Drama, shadow theatre and the projection of photographic images combine to offer young audiences a reverie about nature as a refuge and a place of learning. Are we all budding explorers?

Creation J-365 2020

Les Surpeuplées
(France)

Borrowing from magical realism, Terreurs plunges us into the strange, everyday world of a woman who tries to fit in, to hold on, to succeed. In a fragile balance, she tries to forget the hostile figures that inhabit her nights.

Création FMTM 2021