2019 ANNUAL PROGRAM
The 2019 edition was very special, as it was the first time there were several "seasons": winter, spring, autumn and summer.
The unusual theater season is now an annual event!
This creative project, born of an urgent need to re-examine a reality bordering on the absurd, takes a raw, offbeat look at the many paths taken by street children. While delving into the children's imaginations, dreams and nightmares, this creation highlights everything that makes these children so deeply touching and beautiful.
Petit Bout de Bois questions the problem of exclusion, highlighting the dysfunctions of contemporary society and high-speed globalization. It questions our commitment to respecting fundamental human rights, especially those of children, and our astonishing capacity to let things happen, to turn a blind eye.
Petit bout de bois invites us to open our eyes, and fill them with emotion!
School performances from April 23 to May 2, 2019
Public performance - May 2, 2019
Saint-James Church, Trois-Rivières
SHOW IN THE CHURCH
The little jewel of Les Sages Fous is finally back in the fold!
This little circus of misfits has toured over 60 festivals and theatrical seasons in 16 countries.
Awarded Best Show at prestigious international festivals.
Take this opportunity to discover the beauty that lies beneath the rust!
Église Saint-James, 8:30 p.m. - Running time: 60 minutes
Price: ADULT: $20 tx. & fees included.
CHILDREN: (ages 8 to 16): $10 tx. & fees included.
(Reservation includes a ticket for EST-CE UNE VIE? at 8 or 10 p.m.)
SMALL FORM - LIMITED GAUGE
A rope dancer, driven by the ambition to perfect her skills, then by a habit that had become tyrannical, had organized her life in such a way that she could stay on her rope night and day for as long as she worked in the same establishment.
Inspired by an 18th-century fairground story
and a short story by Franz Kafka.
Jardin des Sages Fous at 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm - Duration: 15 minutes
FREE - Limited capacity - Tickets available from 7:00 p.m. in front of the church
STREET SHOW
Immerse yourself in the adventures of three aquanaut clowns. What do we do when our most precious commodity leaks away? Naïve and endearing, the panic-stricken clown trio come up with torrents of solutions, each more ineffective than the last, and let themselves be carried away by the current of their imaginations...
Rue des Ursulines at 7:45pm and 9:30pm - Running time: 40 minutes
FREE - no ticket required
ENTRE-SORT FORAIN - SHORT FILMS
An experience for one spectator at a time.
Experience a secular version of the confession ritual.
Alone, in the dark, witness the guilty memories of your fellow man.
What's your secret? Unburden yourself and leave in peace.
Saint-James church parking lot 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm - Duration: 5 minutes
FREE - One spectator at a time - first come, first served!
SHOW IN THE CHURCH
After sowing some of the seeds of the show at the Micro-Festival de marionnettes inachevées in 2018, La Pire Espèce returns with its harvest basket overflowing with seasonal vegetables!
In Contes zen du potager, the heroes are monks or samurai; a vegetable or fruit serves as their body, revealing their character. Each intervention of the manipulators is as assured and minimal as the gesture of the calligrapher or the Japanese cook, as ritualistic as the art of tea, and as amusing and inventive as the art of the object!
Grab the chance to see this important Montreal company back in Trois-Rivières!
Église Saint-James, 8:00 p.m. - Duration: 50 minutes
Price: ADULT: $20 tx. & fees included.
CHILDREN: (ages 8 to 16): $10 tx. & fees included.
(Reservation includes a ticket for the touring show LES VISITEURS at 7:15pm or 9:30pm)
CRAZY TOUR WITH ACCREDITED UFOLOGIST GUIDE - LIMITED GAUGE
Based on real facts, inspired by legends, impressions, architecture and geographical surprises, Créatures Compagnie guides you through a surprising rediscovery of Old Trois-Rivières.
Expect it all, as a group of experts in ufology and parallel sciences has worked on the history and legends of Trois-Rivières to reveal its secrets and unravel its mysteries. But you'll have to be discreet and blend in with the crowd to be guided to the truth...
Tour of Old Trois-Rivières
Departures at 7:15pm and 9:15pm - Duration: 45 minutes
FREE - Limited capacity - Tickets available from 7:00 p.m. in front of the church or by reserving a ticket for Contes zen du potager.
STREET SHOW
They'll do anything to save the festivities... and despite their dubious techniques and unconventional practices, they manage to get patients out of trouble with ailments as bizarre as they are delirious. Between mysterious medical devices and outlandish problems, X-rays of the soul reveal a hidden past, phantom limbs come to life, love transfusions are permitted and the voice you hear in your head may be someone manipulating you after all.
Parking behind Saint-James Church at 7:15pm and 9:15pm - Duration: 40 minutes
FREE - no tickets required
PERFORMANCE IN THE CHURCH
CONCERT ANATOMIQUE takes us to the edge of reality, between dance and puppetry, in an unusual and extremely rigorous solo choreography. Oversized human body parts come to life in a wordless meditation punctuated by haunting music. Unforgettable, tenderly grotesque images appear and dissolve in shifting environments of falling snow and lingering steam.
ANATOMIC CONCERT was created as part of artistic residencies in Canada and Norway with the support of Les Sages Fous and Ella Fiskum Danz. It was presented in 2018 at St. Ann's Puppet Lab and received financial support from the Brooklyn Arts Council. After an important creation stage in November 2018 in Trois-Rivières, the show is back in its final version during the Saison de théâtre insolite. The show will then be presented in the prestigious La Mama Moves! Dance Festival in New York, in May 2020.
Don't miss your chance to see this incomparable show!
"In the church of puppetry artistry, Augustine is divine" - Time Out New York
"Body concert is a literally fascinating show that opens doors where only a wall could be seen." - François Houde, Le Nouvelliste, December 2018
Saint-James Church, 8:00 p.m. - Duration: 60 minutes
Price: ADULT: $20 tx. & fees included.
CHILDREN: (ages 9 to 16): $10 tx. & fees included.
STREET DANCE
Who are these mysterious Andalusian dancers who stroll around, magnificently dressed in their falbalas dresses, electrifying the air with their racy presence?
Footwork, hand clapping, castanets and crazy rhythms: it's through their dances and in a playful spirit that they'll take you on a journey.
Rue des Ursulines
7:15pm - Duration: 30 minutes
FREE - no ticket required
STREET SHOW
It's a velovoilier, an island on bicycle wheels in the middle of an ocean of doubt. Prospero tries to make the characters dance on this wobbly island, and get them to play the symphony of a better world.
Water, plastic, recycled elements, puppets and musical notes compose a dance around the island, passing like drops through Prospero's fingers...
Parking behind Saint-James church
9:15pm - Duration: 30 minutes
FREE - no ticket required
Through this strange journey, the man relives his birth in a cardboard box, his first love, his life as a showman and his escape from the entertainment industry. He faces his fears as a gunman, gets caught in a spider's web and finally becomes a moth that flies away like a shadow. Free admission.
School performances - December 2 to 5, 2019
Public performances - December 6, 2019
Saint-James Church, Trois-Rivières
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