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  Three women from three generations live in a castle in the middle of nowhere. One sings, a bird accompanies her and steals her heart… Loosely based on Endgame by Samuel Beckett and Las vocales malditas (“The cursed vowels”) by Oscar de la Borbolla, Occa de l’anima, a Dystopian Tale, plays with distortion, as a […]

  Invisible Lands questions the way today’s media reports on the desperate situation faced by many migrants. In a small, intimate space, the two performers play with scale between the micro and the macro. Using their bodies as a landscape for miniature figures, they tell the story of a perilous journey into exile: throngs of […]

Presented in collaboration with Le Vivier  CABAN is a cozy play area filled with imaginary places, such as a nest, a sleeve tunnel and a bamboo forest. Different shapes and materials spark toddlers’ imagination, encouraging them to explore. Musicians play and sing, going in and out, on top of and underneath the play structures! The […]

Presented in collaboration with OBORO   It all starts with an empty 50-gallon fish tank. As water slowly fills the tank, objects appear: some objects float, others sink, some dissolve and disappear. In this tiny world, a chain reaction occurs, filled with strong, dramatic events and dangerous situations, rescue and abandonment. It is an epic […]

  Inspired by magical realism and flash fiction, two popular literary movements in South America, Juan Perez Escala invites us into his studio to tell us his Kazus, poems that combine visual imagery, puppetry and music. Slowly, he lets us in on something a little more personal: Kazu is madly in love with Lou, but […]

Presented in collaboration with Théâtre Aux Écuries   Inspired by Oedipus on the Road by Henry Bauchau, this wonderful visual poem invites the audience to experience the inner metamorphosis of a mythical being, portrayed through the transformations of water. Oedipus appears in the form of an ice puppet that gradually turns into water, then into […]

  FESTIVAL DE CASTELIERS CLOSING SHOW LoveStar, a scientist fascinated by birds, dreams of saving the world but her ideas are being perverted by her greedy assistant Ragnar. In this extraordinary dystopia, two young lovers fight against the absurdity of a system which has lost its grip on human values. LoveStar raises important issues around […]

  Casteliers presents an evening of short puppet theatre pieces from here and abroad. A wonderful opportunity to (re)discover puppetry’s amazing diversity! TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 60 min. TECHNIQUES: Mixed   Graceland Collectif Les Tables Tournantes (Montréal) Las Meninas Dotted Line Theater (England) Hamster Singe Diesel (France)

  Presented as part of an evening of short pieces This story lasts barely a few seconds: just the time it takes to go from life to death, or to turn over a vinyl album. On the other side, time stretches out and destroys whatever is left of the great rock’n’roll icon. Without words RUNNING […]

  Presented as part of an evening of short pieces Las Meninas, an art history masterpiece, will be stripped bare by two art experts: Almudena, from Spain and Rachel, from England. Come watch this hilarious investigation, as they scrape away the paint and turpentine to reveal the turbulent relationship between Diego Velázquez and Pablo Picasso […]