– An archaic art to better understand the future
Combining loyal artists and newcomers, Isabelle Matter’s 2024-2025 season is anchored in the present to combine with the past and the future.
Published today at 6:43 p.m.
In “Pouvoir”, a puppet will revolt next March against the control of its manipulators.
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Almost a hundred years old! In February 2025, we will blow out the 95 candles of Geneva Puppet Theater (TMG), founded in 1929 by Marcelle Moynier. A longevity record in Switzerland. And the opportunity, for its director Isabelle Matter, to take a double look today at yesterday and tomorrow. “What’s great about the world of puppetry is that it gives an artisanal counterpoint to a world that has become hyper-technological,” she enthuses, thinking about her next season.
A blind homeless man transcends his poverty thanks to his inner world in “Sueño” by Juan Perez Escala.
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Yesterday, for the one who has held the strings of rue Rodo since 2015, it goes back to the mists of time. More precisely in the Paleolithic era, when the mastery of flame and narrative were sharpened in parallel. “The Thing on the Fire”which Isabelle Matter concocts for us herself for January, will be based on a text by Romane Nicolas and the manipulation of puppets sometimes bunraku or Kokoschka to create the illusion of a home on the set. “Our greatest invention is the art of fiction,” she says. But we’ve been sharing stories ever since we sat around the stake!” Teenagers and adults will already be rubbing their hands.
With “Subjectif Lune”, Les Maladroits disentangles the true from the false in the first steps of humanity on our satellite.
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It is an elastic present that will come to crush in the spring the much awaited “Subjective Moon” from the French company Les Maladroits (we remember their “Joueurs” in 2022). We will have to look back to July 21, 1969 and the first steps on our satellite to question the very contemporary phenomena of conspiracy and fake news. Aided by cameras, unusual objects and DIY special effects, the four friends will reconstruct the Apollo 11 mission on stage between archive images and real-time fact-checking. A bit as if Tintin landed in William Karel’s famous documentary hoax, “Operation Moon”.
Lou will lend the wolf his grandmother’s dentures in this cover of “Sur les dents” for ages 5 and up.
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The future will be explored by the Burgundian company Arnica, which signs with «Castelet is not dead» three tales on the theme of mutants. With all the impertinence of the puppet theater – set up at the end of May in the courtyard of the Hugo-de-Senger school – the glove puppets will delight those aged over 9 by taunting robots, artificial intelligence and other dreams of immortality.
Robotic stuffed animals make up the audience of “On était une fois,” a show about a show by Emmanuel Audibert.
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This more political vein, other titles will have nourished it earlier in the season: in particular “Power”from the Belgian company Une Tribu Collectif, which narrates the rebellion of a bunraku puppet against its manipulators, and «Meuuuh Nooon!»which relates more locally (China Curchod, Fanny Pelichet, Nathalie Cuenet, Vincent Bonillo) the unionist fight in a barn of twenty-two cows.
Thirteen shows in all to cover from October to May a spectrum ranging from the most poetic to the most corrosive, from the most primitive to the most connected. And which confirm the quality of an enduring program, which has just opened the doors of the old Comédie, boulevard des Philosophes, to Isabelle Matter. By applying to take over these premises, she cherished the dream of the future which would allow her, among other things, to store the countless collection of dolls amassed over ninety-five years.
Katia Berger has been a journalist in the cultural section since 2012. She covers news in the performing arts, particularly through theater or dance reviews, but also sometimes deals with photography, visual arts or literature.More informations
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