🎬 Watch our year-in-review video:
https://youtu.be/MtFJxhLWCRg

💛 A huge thank you to Dany Janvier and Biobazar Films!

🌙 A Vibrant and Mysterious Place

La Fabrique de théâtre insolite, the creative and presenting venue of Les Sages Fous, opened its doors to the public in spring 2024.

This inspiring space is dedicated to the creation of new theatrical works that are unconventional, hybrid, offbeat and on the fringes, with a particular focus on puppetry and object theatre.

🌊 Founded in 1999, Les Sages Fous, tamers of wild puppets and presenters of curiosities who have sailed the seven seas with their performances, have now parked their caravans to become rooted nomads.

✨ Within the walls of this new creative haven, a place that inspires the wildest dreamers and makes the wisest tremble, magic has taken root and the most unexpected creations have come to life!

🎪 2025 Programming

🎟️ 8 shows + 1 festival
📅 21 days of performances for the general public
🎓 20 school performances for elementary and secondary school, CEGEP and university students

🎭 The Shows:

Tricyckle (Les Sages Fous, Trois-Rivières)
Un Océan d’amour (La Salamandre, France)
Projet Beckett (Tenons Mortaise, Montréal)
Jardins Intérieurs, in collaboration with FestiVoix (Les Sages Fous, Trois-Rivières)
Le Cirque Orphelin (Les Sages Fous, Trois-Rivières)
Cabaret de légumes (Tête de l’Art, Québec)
Funky Jazz Ensemble (France)
Incantations Transitoires, in collaboration with Mauricie Arts Vivants (Céline Chevrier, Montréal)

🎉 14th edition of the Micro-festival de marionnettes inachevées

The festival continues to establish itself as a must-attend event on the international puppetry and object theatre scene.

🌍 This year, artists from Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, the United States and Quebec shared extraordinary moments of connection between artists and audiences.

🎥 https://youtu.be/GgxAZfmiXXw

🔥 A Thriving Artistic Residency Program

Support for creation and artistic development

Two official residencies

🌌 A Norway–Quebec exchange residency, with the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (8 weeks):
Henriette Kihle (Norway) and Mila Lane (Finland)

🌱 Emerging Puppetry Artist Grant Program, in collaboration with the CALQ and the Association québécoise des marionnettistes (AQM) (3 weeks):
Eugénie Capel and Mylène Leboeuf-Gagné (Saguenay)

🎪 Residencies leading up to the Micro-festival:

Henriette Kihle (Norway) and Mila Lane (Finland)
Laurent Steppé (Belgium)
Robin Puyk (Netherlands)
Caitlin Brzeziński and Libby Schapp (USA)
Élizabeth Bosquet and Marika Karlson (Montréal)

✨ Other Residencies:

Jean-Christophe Canivet (France)
Samantha Bérubé (Trois-Rivières)
Céline Chevrier and team (Montréal)
La Salamandre (France)
Tenons Mortaise (Montréal)
Théâtre des petites âmes (Montréal)
Michelle Finston (USA)
Tête de l’Art (Québec)
Great Small Works (USA)
Mentorship: Claudine Rivest (Trois-Rivières)

🏆 Awards and Recognition

Gala Radisson Award – Tourism and Cultural Business of the Year
Featured on the television program Bien bâti

🔥 LES SAGES FOUS

🌿 Two stages in the creation of our new production, Jardins Intérieurs

🌍 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TOUR OF TRICYCKLE

Liège – Paris – Amiens – Maastricht – Nantiat – Ottawa – Mauricie Arts Vivants

🌍 SENEGAL

A CITF project bringing together Les Sages Fous, TOF Théâtre (Belgium) and Cie Djarama (Senegal) gave South the opportunity to create a performance in Senegal at Djarama’s magnificent venue, working alongside a group of talented young performers!

🎓 Master Class

12 participants took over La Fabrique for the Marionnettes sauvages et indisciplinées training program, presented in collaboration with the AQM and Emploi-Québec.