LA BALISE – Le songe d’une nuit d’été

A wacky Shakesqueer for 8 actors and 15 puppets!

This adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream is first and foremost a comedy. A kind of fairytale vaudeville. A poetic epic of love in Shakespeare's forests, where passions are revealed, secrets are revealed and lovers are pursued in a very special kind of chase with elves and fairies.

In the forest, the forces of the imagination are freed from all restraint to create a supernatural world. The forest frees the unconscious and allows us to escape social control for a night. It's in these magical woods that the lovers venture into the exploration of fluctuating gender identities, and it's here that puppetry comes into its own: masculine and feminine merge and are exchanged in a playful, uninhibited way thanks to the presence of the manipulators and the double games created... Who's manipulating whom?

Nothing is true, nothing is false; everything is a dream or a lie... In the end, this 'mess of love' will have a cathartic effect for all the characters... And what if it were the same for the audience...?

Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. Ages 14 and up
Full price (non-subscribers): €28, Reduced price: €24, Youth price: €12