Created in 2023
All public
This project is the result of a collaboration between five actors from the Puppet Theatre of Magdeburg, a stronghold of puppetry, Élise Vigneron from the Théâtre de l’Entrouvert and Julika Mayer. Puppets and puppeteers are invited to a great celebration of the dead and the living, a ritual both primitive and contemporary. This piece is an ode to nature and all living things.
Nourished by the writings of contemporary thinkers such as Vinciane Despret, Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, Tim Ingold, the piece questions through the prism of the practice of puppeteering our relationship to the world of the living and the non-living.
The crowd of puppets from the Magdeburg Puppet Theatre and the five puppeteers are invited to a great feast of the living and the dead, a ritual both primitive and contemporary. Together, they talk about our common existence, and the link between the human and the organic world.
An ode to nature and life.
The Magdeburg Puppet Theater is a stronghold of the world puppet scene. In 2019, he received the National Theater Award, awarded by the German Center of the International Theater Institute (ITI), as well as the Youth Cultural Award of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. It also organizes the international puppet festival “Blickweschsel” every two years.
Winning project of the Transfabrik 2022 Fund.
cast
WithThe Magdeburg Theatre Ensemble
Conception, direction, set and costume design: Élise Vigneron and Julika Mayer
Original music composition: Ensemble Shan (Ariel Tessier, Julien Pontvianne, Pascal Charrier, and Cati Delolme – Compagnie Naï No Production)
Dramaturgy and production: Petra Szemacha
With the puppeteers of the Magdeburg Puppentheater ensemble: Luisa Grüning, Annima Mosimann, Freda Winter, Leonhard Schubert, Kaspar Weith
Artistic collaboration: Jana Weichelt
Outside eye: Frank Bernhardt, Charlot Lemoine
Lighting design and technical direction: Joachim Fleischer (Germany)
Stage management: Samson Milcent (France) and Oliver Freund (Germany)
Sound recording: François Charrier (Compagnie Naï No Production)
Construction workshops: Magdeburg Puppentheater with Christian Sasse (head of workshop) and Tobias Körner (technical director)
Translator: Marie Yan
Production & supports
Production: Magdeburg Theatre, Germany
Co-production: Théâtre de l’Entrouvert, Apt (84); Vélo Théâtre, accredited venue, Apt (84); Théâtre Export Deutschland – Objects & Puppets; FOKUS 20.21; Fonds Transfabrik – Franco-German Fund for Performing Arts
With support from: French Ministry of Culture – DGCA; Institut Français; funded with the 2019 Federal Theatre Prize funds from the Federal Republic of Germany – IIT
Created at: Vélo Théâtre, Apt; Magdeburg Puppet Theatre; and Scène 55, Mougins
This project is a 2022 laureate of the TRANSFABRIK Fund, a Franco-German fund for performing arts.
