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She is a puppeteer. He is a musician. Life and death are played out in their nightclub as an old woman faces Death. The show begins with her final moments. Her time has come, and in order to postpone the inevitable, she presents a quick overview of her existence. The many transformations that make up […]

Combining music and science, Mr. Z turns his piano into a machine in a bid to connect with Beethoven. But a mouse hiding in the instrument derails the experiment, taking Mr. Z on a fantastic journey on “the wings of music”. Fleeing from Death on his “mobile piano”, he crashes into a planet where two […]

WALKABOUT EXHIBITION From February 11 to March 10, 2019 In shop windows on Bernard West and Van Horne Avenues, as well as at the Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa and the Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette (MIAM) Realta • Lescurier • Julie et Benjamin • Le Serpolet • Ongles GG  • Coiffure Alicia • Mince Alors • […]

Thursday, March 8, from 9 a.m. to noon Salon Thalia – Appartements Trylon  Pan-Canadian meeting of artists and artisans, members of UNIMA-Canada, the Canadian centre of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded in 1929, UNIMA is dedicated to the promotion and recognition of puppetry around the world. www.unimacanada.com www.unima.org  

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 […]