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This year the Mouse and the Cat will face the challenge of performing a public rehearsal of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece: Of Mice and Men. Once again, they’ll ask their favourite stage director/improv coach Carl Béchard for a little help… and he’ll lead them to an unexplored theatrical space. Running Time: 15 minutes Technique: Hand Puppets

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event The sea is the earth’s eye, the guardian of the lives of those who have disappeared into it. In L’Enfant de l’eau delà, the sea tells the story of a child who died in her waters. For a moment, the sea assumes the colours of this short […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event Le monde au complet tells the story of a music theory teacher who takes a student under his wing. The music serves as a pretext to open the child’s mind to the world. A show about transmission, memory and intergenerational friendship. With puppets, objects, shadows and actors.

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event Inspired by his time living in Québec, Timothy Gosley takes on the persona of Le Bloke, a master puppeteer who performs his first show in French (Bloke French) with the assistance from his young Quebecer apprentice. The performance culminates with a parallel-universe puppet show from the Legends […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event Racontars arctiques presents a series of unlikely stories about a handful of solitary hunters living on Greenland’s north-eastern shores during the 50s and 60s. This is a puppet theatre and musical adaptation of the namesake comic strip that was itself an adaptation of the works of Danish […]

Outdoor performance presented in front of the MIAM After two years of renovation work, the former Outremont fire hall stables have been transformed into a magnificent home where puppetry arts can thrive. Just a stone’s throw from the library, which is also inaugurating a consultation room dedicated to the discipline, the Maison internationale des arts […]

FESTIVAL OPENING SHOW Without words Blick Théâtre creates theatre that juggles with reality and make-believe. Their creations without words combine puppets and humans. Two men and a woman sit on three stools in the middle of nowhere. The two men are trying to take care of the woman, but she doesn’t understand them. When she […]

Inspired by the paintings of Paul Klee, actress and visual artist Sylvie Gosselin tells a story about the power of the imagination. She invites children 4 to 104 on a playful and poetic walk through her installations and her puppet-object creations, inspiring her guests to spread their wings in a world full of mystery and wonder. […]

A writer cuts himself off from the world to better concentrate on his writing. His solitude is quickly broken by his double, Maski, who hijacks his creative process. The characters they create together take over and demand to be heard and to see their story unfold from beginning to end. How far can a writer […]