This little circus is a haven for orphaned objects and puppets born strange.
" I wait for that one show that blows me away – a performance for which I do not need to make allowances, or equivocate in my praise. In my week at FIAMS, that show was Le Cirque Orphelin by Les Sages Fous (…) their ingenious probing of puppetry’s endless potential to transform and delight. "
Andrew Periale
UNIMA - USA Newsletter, 2019
" Les Sages Fous deserve several times the standing ovation that salutes their work at each performance. If you have never joined the crowd of applauding people, it is time to come and sit in front of the caravan of this Circus ! "
Mathieu Dochtermann,
Toute la culture
France, 2019
" The outstanding show of this year’s FIAMS programme was, for my money, Le Cirque Orphelin, by Quebecois company Les Sages Fous. Highly original, beautifully quirky, sometimes disconcerting and, often, very funny, it creates, in a room that is the quintessence of dilapidated urbanism, a miniature circus of vagabond artists. "
Mark Brown
The Herald, Scotland 2019
Among the debris of a scrap yard, between used oil cans,
rusted sheet metal, and miscellaneous lost objects,
Les Sages Fous invite you to a clandestine rendezvous.
Two junk peddlers create a small circus of visual tableaux evoking the life of a cabaret troupe of derelicts and misfits. The dark alley becomes a outlet for dreams, a place where glitter and ash entwine, where magic and mystery is brewd in the trash cans. Underneath the dirt and the rust there are treasures to be found.
In the blind spot of the multinational entertainment industry, this little circus is a victory of the poor and the small; a place where the gruesome become the circus beauties, the old and rusted become the acrobates, and where even impossible love can be fulfilled.
A haven for orphaned objects, recycled artists and puppets born strange. This wayward troupe is ruled with an iron fist by none other than the elusive, the fictional, the mysterious impressario,
Monsieur P.T. Issimo... himself!
Rehabilitation or exploitation?
Dream or reality?
It is for you to judge, Ladies and Gentlemen!
DIRECTOR, PUPPETS AND MASK - South Miller
MOVEMENT EXPLORATION - Jacob Brindamour
STRUCTURE & MECHANICS - Sylvain Longpré
MUSIC - Christian Laflamme
ACTORS / PUPPETEERS - Jacob Brindamour and Céline Chevrier
PRIZES
Jury Award - Best of Festival -
at the National Puppetry Festival
(Puppeteers of America)
Connecticut, USA, 2015
Audience choice Award - Best of Festival -
at the National Puppetry Festival
(Puppeteers of America)
Connecticut, USA, 2015
Best performance - adult
at the XVIII Międzynarodowy
Festiwal Teatrów Lalek SPOTKANIA
Torun, Poland, 2011
Award for set design
at the XVIII Międzynarodowy
Festiwal Teatrów Lalek SPOTKANIA
Torun, Poland, 2011
Award for the best lighting design
PIF Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2012
Production award in performing arts
Arts Excellence awards
Culture Mauricie, Québec, 2010
The Orphan Circus has been part of the official selection of over 60 international theater festivals and seasons in 16 countries.
"... I have just seen the most poetic,
magical, mysterious, surprising, moving,
brilliant, small and large show."
Dorthe Kolding, Herning Folkeblag
Herning, Denmark
2 0 2 3
- Mauricie Arts Vivants - September 23rd, 2023
- Maison de la Culture de Trois-Rivières
Performances for the general public - April 15th, 2023
School performances - March 30th to April 20th, 2023
- Vélo Théâtre - Apt, France - May 16th, 2023
- Les Enfants Sauvages - Salle Jacques Brel, Monthermé, France - May 19th, 2023
- Mouffetard - Théâtre des arts de la Marionnette - Biennale internationale des arts de la marionnette, Paris, France - May 22nd & 23rd, 2023
- Asbl Defo, Liège, Belgique - May 25th, 2023
- Tof Théâtre - Le Monty, Genappe, Belgique - May 27th, 2023
2 0 2 2
- Deutsche Figurentheaterkonferenz UNIMA Deutschland, Northeim, Allemagne - August 2022
- International Fest der Puppen, Lingen, Allemagne - Sept. 2022
2 0 2 0
- COLLOQUE 2020 - Réseau Les Arts et la ville - June 9th, 2020 - CANCELLED
- Église Saint-James, March 20th & 21st, 2020 - CANCELLED
2 0 1 9
- Saison de théâtre insolite, Trois-Rivières - June 14th & 15th 2019
- École secondaire Robert-Gravel, Montréal - June 5th 2019
- Festival International des Arts de la Marionnette de Saguenay - July 2019
2 0 1 7
- Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Suède - November 2017
- Figur och Dockteatercentrum, Göteborg, Suède - November 2017
2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 6
- Since its creation, Le Cirque Orphelin has been part of the
official selection at over 60 international theater festivals
and theater seasons in 16 countries.
- Watch a 15 minute video excerpt
or a 2 minute excerpt of The Orphan Circus.
- FULL VIDEO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
LES SAGES FOUS
80, Saint-François-Xavier, Trois-Rivières, Québec G9A 0A6, CANADA
info@sagesfous.com
+1.819.800.1679
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Nadine Lapuyade
Tel. (+33) 06 75 47 49 26
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