PINOCCHIO(LIVE)#3
PINOCCHIO(LIVE)#3
Non verbal, 70 minutes
Target audience: 12+
La Compagnie S'Appelle Reviens (France)
In Carlo Collodi's story, a little wooden puppet wants to become a human being. In Alice Laloy's performance, the opposite happens. The children turn into puppets. Pinocchio(live)#3 is a dizzying interruption, because the puppets do not become people, but children who become puppets with the help of adults. Dressed up, with clothes and strings, their bodies become mechanical and their gestures expressionless. The performance, which straddles the border between dance, visual art and performance, offers a vivid experience of metamorphosis that is both fascinating and strange. In the factory devised by Alice Laloy, Collodi's famous fairy tale takes a completely different turn. The blue fairy who breathes life into the wooden puppet no longer exists. Here it is the living who are transformed into inanimate, standardised objects.
Concept and direction: Alice Laloy┃Music: Éric Recordier┃Choreography: Cécile Laloy with Stéphanie Chêne┃Set design: Jane Joyet┃Costume design: Oria Steenkiste, Cathy Launois, Maya-Lune Thieblemont┃Light design: Julienne Rochereau┃Props: Benjamin Hautin, Maya-Lune Thieblemont, Antonin Bouvret┃Stage management: Sylvain Liagre┃Sound and lighting management: Éric Recordier┃Construction of set: Atelier Théâtre National Populaire┃Cast: Alice Amalbert, Mathilde Augustak, Matthias Beaudoin, Étienne Caloone, Ashille Constantin, Roxane Coursault, Robinson Courtois, Nina Fabiani, Léon Leckler, Valentina Papic, Charlotte Adriaen, Nohe Berafta, Louna Barafta, Juliette Martinez, Mila Ryckebusch Vandaele, Romane Sand, Elya Tilliez, Eléna Vermersch, Guilio Risaceo, Iness Wilmotte, Éloi Gonsse Martinache┃Accompaniment of children: Hector Yvrard, Mathis Rebiaï┃Production, coordination, administration and communication: Gabrielle Dupas, Joanna Cochet, Céline Amadis, Manon Rouquet┃Opening: 2023
Coproducers: Points Communs - Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy Pontoise et du Val d'Oise, Bateau Feu - Scène nationale Dunkerque, Théâtre de l'Union - Centre dramatique national à Limoges, Le Trident - Scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, La Comédie de Clermont - Scène nationale à Clermont-Ferrand
S'Appelle Reviens was founded in 2002 by Alice Laloy, winner of the prestigious French Molière Prize. She and her theatre company develop a theatre of exploration in which puppets, materials, machines, actors and sound compositions come together in performances that are both socially critical and poetic.