Young Chorten and his guide walk through the Himalayas, forced into exile to escape the invaders who have occupied their country. Chorten does not want to leave his country, but the guide explains that it is necessary to continue living. On the way, they encounter a Yak, who will lead them to the neighbouring country. They also meet two other children, young Tsangpo and his sister Song, who are also on the run. The journey is hard and tiring, and the little Tsangpo cannot resist the cold of the mountains. Shortly afterwards, the Yak also abandons them. Chorten and Song are exhausted, but the guide convinces them to continue their journey. And finally they arrive: the signal is a light cloud of butterflies surrounding the children.

Young audiences

Cagnard Jean

France

Alès

Printed

Exile

Child

Childhood

Cold

Journey

Children--Death

Death

Mountain

Butterfly

Poetry

Himalaya

Domination

Freedom

Border

Hallucination

Soldier

Humour

Flight

Pathetic

Fantasy

French

Storyteller

Allegory

Alternating narrative / dialogue

Talking animal

Apparition

Brawl

Disguise

Active stage directions

Animated natural element

Speechless character

Repetition of a word

Scene of madness

Scene fragment

Silence

Warning signs

Des papillons sous les pas

Through various scenes that follow one another without necessarily being linked, The text evokes the deportation of Jews to the concentration camps through a poetic diversions. The common thread running through the entire play is the character of the little girl, about seven years old, who meets different characters, human or not: a Man who shrinks the sky, a Little Pile of Ashes, a Train, a Chimney. Each character appears as a metaphor charged with meaning, first and foremost the Little Pile of Ashes, which materializes in a macabre and at the same time "light" way the ashes of the victims burned in the ovens. At the end of the play, the little girl, who has lost both her innocence and her life force, also disappears, swallowed up by the little pile of ashes.

Not specified

Cannes

Shoah

Loss

Concentration camp

Lightness

Change of age of the characters

Historical event

Lyrical

Granddaugther

Father

Mother

Grandmother

Puppet theatre within the theatre

Transforming scenery

Change of size on sight

Board

Les Gens légers

Th light people

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.

Bare hand

Shadow theatre

Lemahieu Daniel

Paris

Bourg-en-Bresse

Electronic text

Ogre

Woman

Wrestling

Love

Impossible love

Doll

Gender-based violence

Violence

Murder

Manipulation

Prosthesis

Tale

Fairy play

Noise

Hits

L'Ogre et la poupée

Polichinelle

Guignol

Avista

Splitting of the body

Engulfment

Building a puppet on sight

Chase

Fight

Metadiscourse on puppet theatre

Disappearance

Childbirth on stage

Shape shifting

Grammelot

L'Oggre et la poupée

The ogre and the doll

Pinocchio has grown old; he is 124 years old, and his nose has become as long as a mammoth's trunk. He spends his life watching television, until the blue-haired Fairy turns him into a piece of wood, as he was at the beginning of his story. Pinocchio has to start again and relive his journey: first he has to find his father Geppetto, to become a puppet again. Pinocchio sets out to find him in the ocean (Geppetto was last seen in the belly of a whale...), but in his quest, he meets only some very strange people: Lamereocéan, a man who waters a forest of noses, Captain Nocchio and Captain Pino, and others (Bout d’alu [Piece-of-aluminum], Bout de plastique [Piece-of-plastic],Cassette vidéo [Video-Cassette]...) who also claim to be called Pinocchio and who, unlike Bout de bois [Piece-of-wood], all manage to find their father. He keeps searching, but nobody can tell him where his father is. Moreover, every time he asks someone for help (each time unsuccessfully), he is forced to give a piece of his body: Bout de bois [Piece-of-wood] becomes smaller and smaller. In the end, Pinocchio doesn’t find his father, but he gets married to blue-haired Petite Télé [Little-Television].And together, they will continue searching...