Anywhere

For puppet of ice and animated elements

CREATED in 2016

can be subtitled in all languages
All audiences from 10 yo
Duration 50 minutes

Anywhere is a wandering in the footsteps of Oedipus on the road of Henry Bauchau, a visual poem that invites the viewer to live through the different states of the element Water, the inner metamorphosis of a mythical character.

The fallen Oedipus appears in the form of an ice puppet that gradually turns into water then into mist and disappears in the Erynian Forest, the place of clairvoyance. His daughter, Antigone, accompanies him, supports him and attends, confident, to his disappearance. The inner evolution of this mystical character is in the image of the metamorphosis of water. The spectator is invited to live an experience: to be one with the transformed material.

Each one will soon have to find the route of his dreams and trace on the earth and in the sky the unknown path that corresponds to his inner image.
Henry Bauchau

ANYWHERE IS WINNER OF THE BAUCHAU PRIZE IN 2018.
ANYWHERE WINS THE VICE MAJOR AWARD IN OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC IN 2017.

2023: Transmission to an American company

2023: TRANSMISSION TO AN AMERICAN COMPANY
19, 20, 21 & 22 january 2023, Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival (USA)

Élise Vigneron, artistic director of Théâtre de l’Entrouvert, and Blair Thomas, director of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, two puppeteers who share a common vision of puppetry, give birth to a new international collaboration.

After discovering the company in 2019 at the World Festival of Puppet Theatre in Charleville-Mézières, and witnessing the performance of ANYWHERE during its shows in Canada in 2020, Blair Thomas wishes to feature the show in his festival. As international touring became impossible due to the lockdown, exchanges between Blair Thomas and Elise Vigneron give birth to this project of transmitting the show ANYWHERE to a young American team.

French cast

Conception, Direction Élise Vigneron
Snippets of texts from the novel Œdipe sur la route d’Henry Bauchau
With Élise Vigneron and Hélène Barreau or Sarah Lascar or Marc Blashford
Staging Élise Vigneron and Hélène Barreau
Dramaturgy Benoît Vreux
External advices Tibo Gebert
Work on the movement Eleonora Gimenez
Light design Cyril Monteil
General management Cyril Monteil ou Thibaut Boislève
Stage management Corentin Abeille
Music creation Pascal Charrier (Guitar), Sylvain Darrifourcq (drum), Robin Fincker (Saxophon), Julien Tamisier (Clavier), Franck Lamiot (Sonorisator).
Puppet construction and manipulation device Hélène Barreau
Construction Messaoud Fehrat et Cyril Monteil
Fluid design and implementation Messaoud Fehrat et Benoît Fincker
Technical Research Boualeme Bengueddach
Thanks to the set construction workshop of the Service des Arts de la Scène d’Hainaut / La Fabrique de Théâtre, Manuel Gomez Mendina, Cécile Ratet, Arnaud Louskipane, Stéphanie St Cyr Lariflette, Pascale Bongiovanni

Production & support

Production : Théâtre de l’Entrouvert
Coproductions : Espace Jéliote à Oloron Sainte Marie / Scène conventionnée «art de la marionnette» Communauté de Communes Piemont Oloronais (64), Théâtre du Gymnase/Bernardines à Marseille (13), Le TJP, Centre dramatique National d’Alsace à Strasbourg (67),Théâtre Durance à Château-Arnoux (04), Le 3bisf-lieu d’arts contemporains à Aix en Provence (13), Festival Mondial de Théâtre de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières (08)
With the support of : La Fabrique de Théâtre à Mons en Belgique, Arts vivants en Vaucluse / Auditorium Jean Moulin (84), Pôle de création Le Phare à Vent (84)
The creation of Anywhere was supported by the DRAC and the Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the Département de Vaucluse, the Ville d’Apt, and the Spedidam as part of the support for the creation of a soundtrack.

TRANSMISSION :

Coproductions : Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
Supports : Institut Français, FACE Fondation – dispositif Face Contemporary Theater, Association AVIAMA

Press

Press review ANYWHERE

download files

Artistic file ANYWHERE

Pedagogical file

Technical riderANYWHERE

Extrait du spectacle Anywhere, marionnette de glace

Extrait du spectacle Anywhere, marionnette de glace et elise vigneron

arte

Les Marionnettes de Glace / TV report on the construction of the ice puppet.

France Culture

Interview with Élise Vigneron in Les carnets de création by Aude Lavigne

to listen

Mouvement

« Largely avoiding the pitfall of yet another rewriting of the myth, ANYWHERE captivates through the freedom of interpretation it carefully preserves. Running counter to the spirit of the times, Anywhere dares to embrace a different temporality and challenges the urgency that has become the norm. »
By Agnès Doppf

mouvement

Télérama

« This performance fascinates through its slowness and its bewitching beauty, its delicate interplay with materials and shadow, and its poetic and cruel power. A work of fine art! »
By Thierry voisin

The Guardian

Œdipus meltdown: an ice puppet disappears – in pictures