Toulouse. With the “Puppet Nights”, the puppets will go on the pub crawl!
By Toulouse editorial staff
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We have known it since Guignol: puppets are funny, they make children laugh and amuse adults, but they also know how – above all they know how – to be subversive, to convey a political or poetic message in a burst of laughter, to point out the madness of the world by hiding behind two boards and a cardboard decor.
“Bringing the neck to prejudice”
The “Puppet Nights” (in good French), organized from Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 February 2022 the Toulouse association Marionnettissimo, expose adult questions, but some shows could be very well appreciated with the family. “These performances will take place under the special conditions cultural cafés of the Bars-bars networkspecifies Claire Bacquet, co-director and administrator of Marionnettissimo, and therefore targets an adult audience, at aperitif time”.
“Our ambition is to dispel prejudices, the first being that puppets are for children. Puppet theater can take on very diverse forms: shadows, sheaths, small or large puppets, bags, etc. It does not must not forget that they were at the start very critical and political: Guignol itself was created to criticize power in a casual way. The puppets have a strength and a freedom of speech, gesture and action that the you don’t always find in the theatre”.
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” revisited…
Available throughout the national territory, these “Puppet Nights” will welcome companies from France and Belgium, including three Occitan companies, to a few cafés in Toulouse. Plurality will be required: the shows will address themes as diverse as old age, fantasy, online sex work or even a rewriting of… “Hamlet” by the Occitan troupe Tac Tac, visible from the age of 12.
This “Hamlet” is embodied by two brothers, who present their project for a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Of course, nothing will go as planned: one wishes to tell his relationship with Sophie, his lover, while the other intends to remain faithful to the text and to the tragic destiny of Ophélie…
The “Three little pigs” in a crazy version
Another company in the region is, with Tac Tac, Claire Bacquet’s “coup de coeur”: Magnetic Theater, which will revisit the story of the “Three little pigs” in a crazy, quirky and hilarious version, perfectly accessible from the age of six. The well-known story of all will see its veneer of good feelings slightly scratched thanks to the comic verve of an priceless narrator, Bernard Boudru, who created this highly recommended show!
Jean-Claude Simon
Free shows.
Complete program on the Marionettisimo website.
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