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  Lunch with Sonia offers a theatrical experience at the crossroads of dance, puppetry, music, and video. Inspired by the true story of company founder Federico Restrepo, Lunch with Sonia recounts the artist’s relationship with his aunt, who has decided to end her life with dignity at the age of 72, after a long illness. […]

    The assortment of black and white characters in To Sleep Well intrigues with its singular strangeness, reminiscent of childhood fears, those of the night, the dark, and dreams. Once the lights are turned off, everything comes alive! To Sleep Well is a deep dive into a poetic encounter with these whimsical, endearing, and […]

Casteliers presents an evening of puppetry cinema featuring original shorts filmed in stop-motion animation or directly with puppets, objects, and materials, as well as a documentary film on the creation of the show Iniskim.   Bon cinéma !   6 SHORT FILMS AND 1 DOCUMENTARY Jouer avec son corps, Joanie Fortin (Montréal, 2020) Lettre de l’asile, […]

  Presented by     Welcome to Disgraceland, a mythical mansion where the master of the house—the King himself—staggers between life and death as he navigates a grey zone that is all too bleak for eternal rest. In a kaleidoscopic universe where appearances are deceiving, four housemaids huddle around a disgraced Elvis as he prepares […]

  Presented by   The weirdest puppet show you’ve ever seen!   Watch a seasoned television puppeteer make a live puppet film before your very eyes, using only household objects, a camera, and her bare hands. Ingrid Hansen creates cheeky vignettes right in the palm of her hand and projects them onto a huge screen. […]

  Presented by     A comme Animal is a strange, playful show that combines dance, mask, and puppetry. Freely inspired by the lectures of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1992-1995), it explores the themes of dreams and metamorphosis through the language of philosophy and symbolism. Between human and animal, between high heels and altered voices, […]

  Casteliers presents an evening of three original short works. Three completely different worlds of paper theatre, folk songs, and post-apocalyptic despair create a wonderful opportunity to (re)discover the thematic and technical diversity of puppet theatre in an intimate setting.   Evening program:   Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser Mark Sussman/Great Small […]

  One of three short pieces presented during An Evening of Shorts, with Lucien and Song/Book.   In English A native of Biel, Switzerland, Robert Walser has been described as “a clairvoyant of the small.” A writer of keenly detailed observational prose, he published feuilletons, stories, and short novels in the early years of the 20th century. With […]

  One of three short pieces presented during An Evening of Shorts, with Lucien and Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser.   Sung in Yiddish A solo performance that weaves together live vocals, recorded piano arrangements of Jewish and Anglo-American folk songs, recorded voices layered into a choir, handmade books, paper-puppets and crankie scrolls manipulated on […]

  One of three short works presetned during An Evening of Shorts, with Song/Book and Ten Sentences: On the Life of Robert Walser.   Without words Lucien lives alone, in the desert. A place where the sand seeps into everything and the wind reveals the vestiges of an ancient civilization… In a postapocalyptic universe, this […]