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The fabulous challenge of the immersive D-Day show

2022-06-30T16:45:40.131Z


SURVEY – From June 6, 2025, a gigantic spectacle should welcome 600,000 tourists a year in the Normandy bocage. This "tribute to heroes" is causing a stir.


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For the time being, it is an ordinary cornfield, 30 hectares along the N13 between Isigny-sur-Mer and Carentan-les-Marais, in the Manche department.

On June 6, 2025, if all goes as planned, hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world will come to "relive" the landing of June 6, 1944, in a large immersive show.

“The idea is to show how young people have converged to free their allies, all in a long sequence shot,

explains from Montreal, the scenographer of Cirque du Soleil, Stéphane Roy, a star in his profession.

Imagine an Imax lined with huge screens with a stage and a proscenium, all in an amphitheater that moves through space with the spectators.

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The show will kick off with an update based on archival footage for everyone to understand how the world slid into war.

Then the amphitheater will move 60 centimeters per second.

The screens will open, scenery will appear like so many…

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Source: lefigaro

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