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Casteliers invites you to an afternoon roundtable discussion which will address two distinct, yet complementary topics that look at how contemporary puppeteers’ tools shape their artistic approach and practice. Six panellists working in a range of artistic fields and countries will be present. 1st Topic: Creative Spaces In an ideal world, what would be the […]

Animated short film, 2015, 7 minutes. Without words. Presented before the Ciné-Outremont screening on March 4 Littlemary is a stop-motion animation about a string marionette in search of “The Old Puppets”. The main character, Littlemary, sneaks under the theatre curtain and onto the stage, and realizes that she is among the very puppets she has been […]

Exhibition: A Story with Marionettes – The Șesan Family Collection Thursday, March 7: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, March 8: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 9: 1:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, March 10: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. In conjunction with the presentation of the animated short film Littlemary, this exhibition […]

Dominique sees life through rose-coloured glasses. Before dying, she donates her eyes to science. Science finally discovers that life is beautiful. Inspired by magical realism and flash fiction, two popular literary movements in South America, Juan Perez Escala created Kazus. A combination of different poetry styles – visual, puppet and musical – Kazu Libre is […]

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 […]