<p>At the beginning of the year 2000, the elected representative and his secretary organised an evening in a municipal multi-purpose hall, where they met with the 'working classes' to ask them what their dreams were. The politician wants to redesign the local bar so that it is no longer a meeting place for 'not normal people', and hopes to direct people's dreams towards his goal. But nothing happens as he imagined: everyone talks about their dreams, but they turn out to be expressions of inner unease or personal hopes, rather than achievable wishes. By sharing fragments of their drifting lives, the citizens turn the evening into a slump of violent outbursts, which nevertheless leaves room for bursts of infinite tenderness.</p>

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Lemahieu Daniel

France

Paris

Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Typed or electronic text with handwritten annotations

People

Poverty

Worker

Violence

Sadness

Fear

Bourgeoisie

Vaudeville

Music

Love

Tenderness

Wrestling

Blood

Comical

French

Social vaudeville for fifty puppets and three actors

Patron

Politician

Twins

Social worker

Bride

Vicar

Old woman

Child

Old man

Sung scenes

Inn scene

Dialect as a social marker

Dance

Splitting of the body

Song

Monologue

Chorality

Silence

Fight

Gunshot

Fake death

Grammelot

Le rêve de votre vie (à vos souhaits)

The dream of your life (Bless you!)

<p>In his theatre, Mimmo is both an actor and a puppet showman. He is the boss of all the characters and can play all the roles: he plays the Harpo, an 'oggre' (ogre). But when he meets Lili, a "fragile and seductive" little puppet, everything falls into chaos. He wants to hold her, manipulate her as he pleases, and even eat her, and swallow her. She wants to escape, be able to move on her own, or even become human. Little Kouki, "the puppet’s puppet", wants the same thing, but Harpo and Mimmo prevent them from escaping. The dolls' bodies are abused, forced and violently injured. However, Harpo is finally unable to eat little Lili, even though his hunger makes him scream in pain. The scary ogre has fallen in love. The theatre becomes the backdrop for a fierce and hopeless love story.</p>

Bare hand

Shadow theatre

Bourg-en-Bresse

Electronic text

Ogre

Woman

Impossible love

Doll

Gender-based violence

Death

Murder

Manipulation

Poetry

Prosthesis

Tale

Fairy play

Noise

Hits

L'Ogre et la poupée

Polichinelle

Guignol

Avista

Engulfment

Allegory

Building a puppet on sight

Chase

Metadiscourse on puppet theatre

Disappearance

Childbirth on stage

Active stage directions

Shape shifting

Change of size on sight

Repetition of a word

L'Oggre et la poupée

The ogre and the doll