Creation residencies

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

Singe Diesel
(France)

The spectator follows the story of Tom, a blind homeless man, who uses his puppets to show a city as he imagines it, as if in a dream. A visual, poetic and psychedelic show.

Creation FMTM 2021

Compagnie Agathe dans le vent
(France)

Inspired by Rocky and fairy tales, Elle explores her journey and her emotions. As a child, she felt like the daughter of the ogre in Little Thumb. As a teenager, she was a runaway Sleeping Beauty. As an adult, she was a recidivist wife of Bluebeard.

Creation 2021

Théâtre de l’Heure Bleue
(Belgium)

Trees as a living link between heaven and earth, roots symbolising anchorage and all that is hidden: it is in a delicate visual and poetic bubble that Laura Elands evolves with puppets, masks and sculptures. Shrouded in a warm light, a gentle succession of tableaux vivants come to life to speak of an oh-so-sensitive theme: mourning. The loss of a loved one that disrupts the landscape and deprives the body of the physical links that bound it to the vanished body.

Creation FMTM 2021

Sayeh Sirvani
(France)

Deep-sea drunkenness is a disorder that can affect any diver during a descent in cylinders. Euphoria, confusion, blurred vision, loss of consciousness, anxiety, hallucinations… Your capacity for judgement is reduced, you forget; you don’t make the right choices in the right time, putting your life in mortal danger. The exhilaration here is that of plunging into a world of escapes, of realities that topple over; of words that you can’t say or others that you repeat to yourself to reassure yourself.

Creation FMTM 2021

Skappa
(France)

A show of visual and musical theatre that takes us on a journey through the ages, exploring, through moving images, acting and song, the infinite ways that humanity has adopted to represent itself, to leave a trace of its passage through the world.

Creation 2020

Collectif 23h50
(France)

In the beginning there was the water, the sea, then little by little: life. Two strange divers set off to explore the deep sea. As they dive, they come across a strange creature that transforms, metamorphoses and takes on different appearances, growing until it is ready to come out of its shell. Au Fond des Mers draws a parallel between the aquatic world and the world inside the womb.

Creation 2021

Centre de Création pour l’Enfance – Collectif Ma-Théâ
(France – Slovenia)

A show of poetry and images, tender and sparkling, ironic and profound, joyful and sensitive, where we ‘count’ on our fingers in our own way and on our loved ones more than ever in this hectic world. It’s a show that gives us a glimpse inside the heads of children young and old…

Compagnie Grizzli
(France)

This show uses actors and a variety of puppetry techniques to tell the story of two teenage migrants who cross the border from one country to another.
techniques to tell the story of two teenage migrants who cross borders in a desperate attempt to escape the war and war and violence in their home country. They hope to hope to find a welcoming nation to make a fresh start, but does such a place exist?

Creation 2020
Presentation at FMTM 2021

Cie PuceAndPunez
(France)

I’ve always been told that I’m going too fast, that I need to slow down, take my time. Hearing ‘Breathe, stop doing ten things at once’ makes me tense up inside: the feeling of imprisonment, of a space that’s shrinking and oppressing me. So I go for a run for an hour, sometimes two or three. In the woods. On my own. Running. I started because I wanted to hit. As a teenager, I needed to expand my space. People told me, ‘Go and run, you’ll come back when you can talk! I’m not sure I came back.

Creation 2020

Compagnie Atipik
(France)

This is an adaptation of a classic of children’s literature, Hulul. Aimed at the very young, we hope to use short illustrated texts to explore feelings and the world close to children’s hearts: what is loneliness? Why be afraid at night? What’s big and what’s small?

Presentation at FMTM 2019

Anima Théâtre
(France)

Rebetiko is a story of forced uprooting that today echoes the stories of Syrian and Kurdish refugees who take the same routes to flee. It’s also a fictional story in which past and present intersect and intermingle, raising questions about History as it repeats itself over and over again, and about states that close their borders.

Creation November 2020

Andy Gaukel
(United-states)

Calm Blue Sky is a meditation on the impact of US and coalition military airstrikes on civilians, affecting too many children, in the fight against ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria / l’État Islamique). The show revolves around a missile strike, seen through the eyes of young children trapped under the rubble of a building destroyed by mistake.

Creation FMTM 2019

DÍRTZ Theatre
(France)

A hybrid project at the crossroads of movement arts and puppetry, ShortStories plunges us into a world of metamorphoses. Opting for a resolutely corporeal vocabulary at the service of a poetic universe, this first creation by the company subtly and unexpectedly disturbs our sense of reality. Across the ages, between reality and fantasy, men, women, puppets, living bodies and object bodies intermingle in a sensitive dance that reveals, with modesty, the ties that bind us through life.

Creation 2021

Les Illustres Enfants Juste
(France)

A puppeteer, an actor and a musician have fun dusting off Sleeping Beauty by rummaging around in a wardrobe, the castle of this marvellous tale, where a locked-up princess lives inside. Accompanied by a hurdy-gurdy and an organ playing medieval tunes, the characters have fun with a bunch of old objects.

Creation March 2019
Presentation at FMTM 2019

Papierthéâtre
(France)

The birthday party of Tara, a little girl who lives with her cake-maker aunt, brings together their friends and acquaintances. The night after the party, Tara disappears. The police investigation does not unravel the mystery of her disappearance, but the aunt finds a curious way of communicating with her niece in the evenings in her garden.

Creation 2019
Presentation at FMTM 2019