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5th edition – Short pieces, installations and performances for all. See the program!   Pavillon Saint-Viateur / March 3 to 11, 2018

Short film screened before Ciné-Outremont’s feature film O.V. in Spanish with French subtitles In this short film, Iker Vincente and Jacqueline Serafín from La Liga Teatro Elástico reveal the creative process behind the show entitled Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège discret de la nature sauvage. This is an integral, multidisciplinary project based on the […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event LoveStar is a show without words, based on the novel by Icelandic writer Andri Snaer Magnasson. This exhilarating and insightful story could be the offspring of 1984 and L’écume des jours. It is an exceptionally imaginative and absurdist dystopia set in a future North where a stringless […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event This play is grounded in Shakespeare’s Tempest. Caliban, the Indigenous slave, is a life-size puppet; Prospero is the puppeteer. With Caliban as guide, the play explores the gay meta-narrative of Shakespeare’s work, mixing his language with contemporary English, and using a Shakespearean puppet convention, the “interpreter” as […]

Presented as part of the Puppet Slam line-up   Without words Siren Song Shadow puppets like you’ve never seen them before! Detailed paper puppets and shadows tell the tale of deadly sirens luring a crew of seamen to their death in this moody short.   Supine: a Dream Supine depicts a woman’s dream, where shadowy […]

Part of the Café-causerie — Budding creations! event This show is based on Paul Klee’s work in visual arts and puppetry, combining it with Sylvie Gosselin’s stories. Children are invited to embark on a journey that takes its inspiration from the painter’s colourful, wacky and poetic iconography, to which children can perfectly relate, where they discover the […]

Presented as part of the Puppet Slam line-up   Without words   Sifters  A shadow piece about sifting through love and loss. Performed with a shower curtain on an overhead projector.   Time’s Up!  Two well known heroes quarrel over a ticking time bomb. As time runs out, they discover what has been just under the surface all along.     RUNNING TIME: Two 4-minute […]

Presented as part of the Puppet Slam line-up Without words  Snare drum and stallion, banjo and leather boots… Pommes de routes (literally, road apples) is a collection of gritty tales accompanied by supercharged live music! Crazy stunts and a dusty romance. A Spaghetti Western where the sauce has gone a little sour. A delightfully country threesome.  THE CALL: In this first episode, our brave hero […]

Presented as part of the Puppet Slam line-up   Without words  Alex & Olmsted presents a short version of Milo The Magnificent, a fun and engaging show in which an aspiring magician presents a variety of magic tricks and the results of his last scientific experiments. But he finds that the best-laid plans don’t always go as planned.  The full length version of Milo The Magnificent is presented on Sunday, March 11.    RUNNING TIME: 5 to 8 minutes  TECHNIQUES: Mixed