MICRO-FESTIVAL DE MARIONNETTES INACHEVÉES 2020/21
PANDEMIC EDITION
The pandemic edition of the Micro-festival of Unfinished Puppets consisted solely of creative residencies that took place throughout 2020/2021. Residency outcomes were presented when health conditions allowed.
LES VEUVES PARALLÈLES
Claudine Rivest
With the collaboration of Sophie Deslauriers and Isaac Beaudet Lefebvre
November 16 to 29, 2020 / February 15 to 21, 2021
Newly arrived in Trois-Rivières, Claudine and her project Les Veuves Parallèles are the first guinea pigs in our creative laboratory! This large room was recently emptied of all the city’s museum storage, and we discovered an inspiring, intimate universe conducive to new ideas. Our new creative space is now equipped with a fabulous mobile workshop, a play area, and all the serenity necessary for a creative “bubble”!
MICRO-WEB SERIES PROJECT
Colin St-Cyr Duhamel and Sandra Turgeon
December 7 to 11, 2020
We are very proud to welcome our second guinea pigs to the creative lab! This time in the form of a film studio.
The very talented Colin St-Cyr Duhamel received one of the CAQ’s Connexion Création grants during the pandemic to create a micro-web series project based on the research of author Lisa Cron. Cron draws on neurological research to establish 12 fundamental principles of storytelling. The result will be five playful, minimalist episodes of less than two minutes featuring black-light puppets. A sort of distilled essence of engaging and intriguing stories.
JACQUES & ZÉBRELLE :
TOUT N’EST PAS RELATIF
Extravaganz’arts
With Cloé Lapointe, Stéphanie Belanger, Gabrielle Garant,
Geneviève Jacob, and Fannie Lagrange
January 11–17, 2021 / May 10–16, 2021
Street theater comes to La Fabrique! This time, the chapel will welcome stilt walkers and puppeteers in the warmth of January…and then head outside to Rue des Ursulines in the spring!
At the crossroads of circus, street theater, visual art, magic, and puppetry, the Jacques & Zèbrelle project is decidedly atypical. The protagonists, who resemble exquisite corpses, come from an imaginary world where surrealist and romantic premises converge. Their meticulously crafted heads, made from recycled materials, make them true living works of art! Poetic, surreal, and scientific worlds come together in a participatory show that tells the story of Jacques and Zèbrelle’s romantic encounter.
FABRIQUE TA FABRIQUE
A Les Sages Fous production
Short animated film project on the creative process behind La Fabrique de théâtre insolite
With Claudine Rivest and Marie Filiatrault
January to March 2021
As part of the 12th Micro-Festival of Unfinished Puppets, Les Sages Fous is launching a project to let objects tell the fabulous story of a great and inspiring cultural infrastructure project! This initiative aims to highlight the creative and eccentric process that led to the development of La Fabrique de théâtre insolite, a space dedicated to the creative process of puppetry and object theater.
All the small 3D models, 2D models, sketches, life-size models, and various objects lying around the workshop, the rectory, and the church that are used in the reflection of this project will become protagonists!
Claudine Rivest and Marie Filiatrault, two talented artists, will take over the premises to bring the inanimate to life and showcase the project’s key objects!
Ingenious, whimsical, and inventive ideas await!
LA VIE SECRÈTE DES ARBRES
Théâtre du Renard
With Antonia Leney-Granger and Claudine Rivest
March 15 to 21, 2021, and August 2021
Now it’s our garden’s turn to welcome a guinea pig in progress! Antonia will develop her show in our little laboratory in March and take the garden by storm in the summer.
In a world fascinated, even obsessed, with the idea of progress and growth, what would happen if we suddenly decided to pay attention to slowness, to the tiny, to the life that has existed for millions of years in virtually unchanged forms, right before our eyes, so close to us that we no longer even see it? Through this latest creation, Antonia aims to create an outdoor walk for young audiences, where each stop is a scene of object theater based on the secrets of nature. It’s a beautiful way to convey sometimes complex ideas in an accessible, playful, and sensitive way!
GRACELAND
Les Tables Tournantes
With Marie-Pascale Bélanger, Joanie Fortin,
Mylène Guay, and Iris Richert
March 29 to April 9, 2021
This proud crew, graduates of the DESS program in contemporary puppet theater at UQAM, is coming to test our creative spaces this spring!
Graceland is the name of Elvis Presley’s home, where he lived and died. The company decided to draw inspiration from this story and place to create a nostalgic and absurd universe, dealing with contemporary mythologies and the prophetic figures that compose them.
POMELO
Les Ombres Folles
With Maude Gareau, Maxime Després, Pierre Alexandre Maranda, Rodolphe St-Arneault, and Olivier Monette-Milmore
April 19-23, 2021
And here is a wonderful project in the works for very young audiences this time around. This creation, which will make its final stop with us, will be able to visit a few daycare centers in our neighborhood.
Pomelo is a tiny pink elephant, born under a dandelion in a garden. With humor and sensitivity, Pomelo discovers the world around him, before experiencing a shock: the arrival of fall, then winter! This new production by Ombres Folles promises to be an ode to nature and the cycle of the seasons, which allows us to see things die and then be reborn, and which takes us from one extreme to the other. Thanks to shadows, live music, and the diffusion of scents, Pomelo will be a captivating and immersive experience!
UN ROYAUME
Aluma
With Lucile Prosper and Mathieu Marcil
October 2021
Everyone who knows Lucile and Mathieu attests to their perseverance and love for the medium. We are proud that these “good souls” of puppetry are our last guinea pigs before the project begins!
Un Royaume is a staging of the trial against Bonsanté and other giants of the agrochemical industry for ecocide and violation of the right to food. The audience will serve as the jury, voting on Bonsanté’s guilt or innocence and his possible sentence. Many citizens feel forgotten in certain ecological decisions. Here, the company will give the audience the opportunity to make their voices heard. To do so, they will have the duty to vote, by secret ballot, on whether or not Bonsanté is guilty of ecocide and violation of the right to food.
