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An enchanting Gulliver's Journey at the Théâtre de l'Athénée

2022-01-17T12:12:46.365Z


CRITICISM – Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq stage Jonathan Swift's novel with stunning hybrid puppets.


With Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq, we are never disappointed with the trip.

Gulliver's was, of course, made for them.

So they boarded the

Antilope

and, as they never do things like everyone else, here we are again in their magic carousel.

From the first minutes, we are bathed in great entertainment: Gulliver, a long-term surgeon with an imposing figure, recounts the sinking of his ship.

The only survivor, he finds himself, pushed by the winds, on an unknown land.

The ebb and flow of the waves, the cries of seagulls swirling poetically around our Gulliver, now asleep on the shore.

Suddenly, to primitive music, two Lilliputians burst onto the slightly inclined stage and the room is already won over: they are two men's heads mounted on somewhat disjointed mini-bodies, hybrid puppets.

The effect is immediate, stunning.

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Ah! the marvelous insolence of the puppets!

Their…

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Source: lefigaro

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