Côtes d’Armor Destination brings its Minutes Bleues to the Musée Mathurin Méheut, in the blue light of dusk. Shadow puppeteers follow the Fils de Croguennec from the Breton moors to the desolate ports of Iceland, where drowned fishermen haunt the memory. The tale is Pêcheur d’Islande, the book by Pierre Loti that Méheut illustrated; the technique belongs to Henri Rivière, the other painter in these rooms. Each spectator cuts out a paper puppet.
Tag: puppetry
Veillée marionnettique at the Château de Quintin
Polichinelle, Guignol, Charlemagne and the trois mousquetaires carry the tales and legends gathered at the Château de Quintin. Designing a puppet, real or imaginary, and bringing it to life follows the telling, for ages six and up, with reservation required. A Monument historique at the heart of the Petite Cité de Caractère de Quintin, the château programmes the veillée within the fifth Minutes Bleues. That festival opens high places of the natural and cultural heritage of the Côtes d’Armor in the blue light of dawn or dusk.
Halloween au château des Comtes du Perche
The town of Nogent-le-Rotrou and its library bring a Halloween programme to the Château des Comtes du Perche. Families can explore the Mission Hôtel Dieu game booklet or join an escape game and outdoor laser tag. Storytelling sessions accompany the Super Chouette show and a puppet workshop, while a medieval play course and face painting add further activities around the castle.
Fantaisie Lunarienne : Maurice Sand, marionnettiste
Maurice Sand illustrated, wrote, chased insects and built a marionette theatre of his own, yet he stayed behind the name of his mother, George Sand. A comedienne and a puppeteer set three tableaux in which levels of reality collide. Letters, exchanges and excerpts from his plays feed a friendly argument about the absent man. The puppet answers the actress line for line, and Cormery hosts the encounter.
Une petite histoire de marionnette inspirée par George Sand
Residents of Neuilly-en-Sancerre explore puppetry through a collaborative performance developed with the company Les Buses en vol. The choice of medium has a direct Sand connection: puppet theatre held a special place in the artistic lives of both George and Maurice Sand. Local participants therefore approach regional literary memory through making and performance, moving beyond biography alone. Figures, movement and collective invention translate that family interest into a form the wider community can share. Presented at the village church, the project links popular theatre, amateur creation and professional guidance, showing how an intimate nineteenth-century practice can continue through the hands and imaginations of present-day residents in a rural community setting.
George Sand Show in Nohant: Puppet Performance
George Sans S brings the work and personality of George Sand to the stage through the distinctive visual theatre of Les Anges au Plafond. Puppets, signed song and live music give form both to the author and to characters drawn from her novels, allowing biography and fiction to occupy the same performance space. The company is recognised in the puppetry arts, with movement and manipulated figures carrying meaning alongside music and signed song. This version is adapted for Nohant, the place most closely associated with Sand’s home, writing and artistic circle. That setting adds unusual immediacy to a production concerned with how an author survives through invented lives. Its layered design replaces the conventional literary portrait with gesture, voice and material that bring Sand’s imagination into view.