Este não é o nariz de Gogol mas podía ser… com um toque de Jacques Prévert (This is not Gogol’s nose but it could be… in Jacques Prévert’s style) is a collage show that satirizes the contemporary world, using articulated figures made of paper and actors on stage who address the audience. The show was first produced in 2016. It was then scheduled in 2017 at the World Puppet Theatre Festival in Charleville-Mézières, in the North-East of France.

In an atmosphere recreating the Soviet Union in the 1970s, two actors greet the audience in Russian. They are wearing blond wigs and handing out tickets made of tissues. An old record player, a table with an ancient television covered with a crocheted doily and small china dogs, among other objects, form a kitschy setting.

The paper figures show a nose coming off the face of author Nikolai Gogol and going into a bottle of port wine on the table, next to a turtle with Marine Le Pen’s face. Then Theresa May flies across space aboard a T-Rex. Vladimir Putin is turned into a zebra in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body, with Sacha Baron Cohen’s legs (Borat). He will then appear in a two-headed heart alongside Donald Trump. Finally, Jacques Prévert’s and Luís de Camões’s lines are recited and accompanied by an unusual and varied soundtrack (Iggy Pop, Serge Gainsbourg, Juliette Gréco, Yves Montand).