The Beckett project for puppets and actor is an adaptation of playwright Samuel Beckett's “Fin de partie”.
Set in an apocalyptic world, four physically handicapped characters reel in and stretch out the time that leads them to a never-ending end.
Tenon Mortaise's puppeteers plunge into this tragi-comic universe, bringing out the full richness of the play “Fin de partie” by the famous Irish playwright. A closed-door play that parodies conventions and comes close to the theater of the absurd.
Tenon Mortaise came to our Micro-festival de marionnettes inachevées in 2016 with this show in the making. The audience was won over, and we're delighted to be able to present it in its final form!
General Audience : May 9th, 2025 - 19h30
Schools : May 7th & 8th, 2025 - FULL
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
Whether in the shade of a bucolic arbour or in an eerie swamp, Les Sages Fous unveil their inner gardens. They have sown dreams and will reap mysteries. Through the hum of insects and the songs of frogs, something chimerical lurks beneath the leaves. Once we've crossed the threshold, the vegetation follows us into another dimension.
In our gardens, metamorphoses are woven where the plant and the architectural intertwine in changes of scale and nature. Between the living and the inanimate, between the tiny and the grandiose. Where insects and humans merge, where caterpillars become butterflies, where there's a promise of renewal.
School performances only : May 28th to June 12th, 2025
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
Among the debris of a scrap yard, between used oil cans, rusted sheet metal, and miscellaneous lost objects, Les Sages Fous invite you to a clandestine rendezvous.
Two junk peddlers create a small circus of visual tableaux evoking the life of a cabaret troupe of derelicts and misfits. The dark alley becomes a outlet for dreams, a place where glitter and ash entwine, where magic and mystery is brewd in the trash cans. Underneath the dirt and the rust there are treasures to be found.
In the blind spot of the multinational entertainment industry, this little circus is a victory of the poor and the small; a place where the gruesome become the circus beauties, the old and rusted become the acrobates, and where even impossible love can be fulfilled.
A haven for orphaned objects, recycled artists and puppets born strange. This wayward troupe is ruled with an iron fist by none other than the elusive, the fictional, the mysterious impressario,
Monsieur P.T. Issimo... himself!
Rehabilitation or exploitation?
Dream or reality?
It is for you to judge, Ladies and Gentlemen!
July 9th to 12th, 2025
July 16th to 19th, 2025
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
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PAST EVENTS
Guided by enigmatic arrows, a scrap-collector steers his Tricycle and trailer to the opening of a fantastical maze filled with illusions. A dream-like adventure begins.
The tricycle guides the man through his life journey as if it were an uncanny ride at a fairground; through the house of mirrors, the carousels, and the games of chance leading him through the dark shadows of his past towards his quest for freedom and into the light.
February 20th & 21th, 2025
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
Un Océan d'amour, an epic, poetic and puppeteering odyssey, is a stage adaptation of the comic strip by Grégory Panaccione and Wilfrid Lupano. We plunge into a burlesque adventure about love and routine, the passage of time, loneliness, pollution, consumerism, storms and surf, and insignificant thoughts that become big ideas.
Two gray-coated employees of some bureaucracy shape paper boats all day long. At the turn of a page, they plunge into an offbeat universe where paper in all its forms gives free rein to their imagination. These two big kids take us on a burlesque adventure set off the coast of Brittany.
La Salamandre is a renowned French company that also runs an artistic residency. Their venue is called “l'Hopitau; laboratoire des arts de la marionnette” and is located in the town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre. The company arrives in Quebec at the invitation of the Casteliers international festival, to perform in several theaters around the province. They're coming to Trois-Rivières specifically to meet with our venue, and to exchange ideas with Les Sages Fous!
February 25th to 28th, 2025
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
This performance with puppets and masks, for adult audiences, is a mystery play, based on the idea ‘ Panta Rhei’, everything flows eternally…, a thread, that connects the short scenes in a poetical manner.
In the velvet travelling theatre set the spectator is offered a visual form puppetry without lyrics. The performance is built up with different movement techniques, set in a fascinating sound, with surprising contrasts in dimensions.
October 16th to 18th, 2024 - 8 pm
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
A biennial meeting between unfinished theatrical forms
in puppetry and object theater and an audience interested in the
in the creative process.
An unhoped-for opportunity to participate in the excitement of theatrical
creation, to taste the exhilaration of the leap into the
the unknown, to live the strong emotions of the first steps.
November 28th to 30rd, 2024
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
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MINUSCULE & GRANDIOSE OPENING CELEBRATIONS OF LA FABRIQUE DE THÉÂTRE INSOLITE
"The construction site ends and the creation site begins!"
Les Sages Fous are particularly proud to invite you to the opening celebrations of the Fabrique de théâtre insolite. For this moment of great excitement, Les Sages Fous have concocted a festive evening filled with mystery.
The building will be festively decorated, transformed into a cabinet of curiosities brimming with photos, strange objects and models of the building's transformation. Visitors will cross the threshold in small groups for a labyrinthine tour that will reveal the spirit of the place hidden in the nooks and crannies of this ancestral building.
All together, we'll converge in the chapel to witness the beginnings of Minuscule et Grandiose, a ritual that marries the building with its new vocation: that of a place dedicated to the creative process in puppetry and object theater. This unfinished form is the beginning of an in situ theater project which, over the coming months, will take over the entire heritage site.
After the ceremony, the company's workshop will be transformed into a small cinema, showing short films celebrating the birth of the site by puppeteers from all horizons.
Like good fairy godmothers, come and lean over the cradle of the Fabrique de théâtre insolite to lavish it with your wishes.
Based on science-fiction films from the 70s, this ciné-concert explores the imaginary world of the conquest of space.
Live music and dubbing play with the images, creating burlesque situations and demonstrating that science fiction can rhyme with humor. Electronic machines, synthesizers, cobbled-together special effects: amidst their toys, the two actors and musicians take us into their offbeat universe of interstellar cinema!
Imagine receiving a mysterious message from the far reaches of the universe...
Far from threatening or intimidating, this message simply invites us to come and party on an unknown planet: the planet Mirror. All nations are invited, and join forces to send several ships to the party - in disguise, of course. A few twists and turns await the crews on their journey...
July 5th to 7th, 2024 - 15h00
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
Disgraceland is a show in which four chambermaids deconstruct the iconic Elvis Presley through puppetry and platinism (the art of hijacking record players as musical instruments).
Les veuves parallèles (Parallel Widows) paints a dreamlike portrait of a family in which the terrifying and the banal coexist. Through the story of Amanda, who remained mute for the last 18 years of her life, this work questions the transmission of memory between women of different generations. Sailing between the real and the imaginary, the dining room table becomes the stage through which the past resurfaces. To the sound of the violin, fragments of life laden with secrets are interwoven and superimposed on everyday gestures. An invitation to enter the elusive world of memory.
In her cozy little living room, an elderly woman takes us on a journey through the most important moments of her life. The objects that surround her daily life and populate her living room remind us of the woman she once was: a journey in which we follow the woman, the spouse, the mother, and what she has accomplished. A multitude of ingenious scenic devices and objects are used to take the spectator on a touching journey back in time, through a voice and a body that are quivering, delicate and fragile. A universe both touching and magical
An ode to life, wisdom and women.
End of residency: January 19, 2024 - 5:30pm
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
Canadian author David Baudemont, with "Orange au pays des Angles", is the winner of the call for French-language puppet texts Autre chose est possible, launched by Les Enfants Sauvages, at FMTM 2021. This creation is the conclusion of an incredible collective adventure, which brought together 34 authors, 42 readers, 12 directors, 36 actors and hundreds of spectators...
David Baudemont's text for the general public is an ode to difference, with a strong emphasis on the poetry of mathematics. It questions the notion of "rules": must they always be respected? Sometimes to the point of absurdity? Do rules deprive us of our singularity? In the play, Orange and Triangle Rectangle are pitted against each other... How can they become friends?
David Baudemont's message is absolutely universal, and more necessary than ever: difference is richness...
... Perhaps it's enough...
... to round off the angles...?
End of residency: December 12, 2024 - 2pm
For children
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
Incarnations transitoires is a research and creation project underway since autumn 2021. On the one hand, it revolves around the desire to explore the dramaturgical potential of the theater of matter, favoring large volumes of raw materials. On the other hand, it is based on the desire to put the body in motion in relation to these materials, which come to life and transform. The idea is to transpose and externalize fleeting but invasive inner states into moving masses that interact with the body in ways that are at times abstract, poetic and playful.
End of residency: December 1, 2023
Fabrique de théâtre insolite - 787, rue des Ursulines, Trois-Rivières
