Les folles

Creation 2017

Poetic journey of resistance
Duration 1h30
All audiences from 10 years old
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In this clever triptych composed of two solos and an exhibition, La Mue/tte pays a vibrant tribute to Argentine mothers, who for forty years have been mobilizing to find out what happened to their children who disappeared during the military dictatorship.
Cross stitch is a metaphor for the pugnacity of these women with embroidered headscarves, while Silence is health recalls, from archives, the brutality and cynicism of the leaders responsible for the disappearance of 30,000 people.

Two wordless shows, augmented by an exhibition Embroider to resist featuring historical photos, a puppet reenactment of a “resistance march” and a short animated film.

In this protean show, between theater, manipulation of objects, play of shadows and projections, The Crazy Ones summons memory in a visual poem engaged in the transmission of a recent and yet fragile memory.

DISTRIBUTION

Design, construction, staging, acting : Delphine Bardot, Santiago Moreno
Music and sound device : Santiago Moreno
Costume and construction : Daniel Trento
Construction and embroidery : Lucie Cunningham
Light creation : Phil Colin
Embroidery : students in the Brevet des Métiers d’Art and CAP Broderie (2016/2017) at the Paul-Lapie high school in Lunéville
Outside views : Nicole Mossoux (Cross stitch) and Jacopo Faravelli (Silence is health)
Complicit look : Amélie Patard (Cross stitch)
Magical look : Benoit Dattez (Silence is health)
Production : Claire Girod
Production Assistant : Aurélie Burgun

PARTNERS

Co-production : TGP, Stage approved for puppetry arts in Frouard; CCAM, National Stage in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy; La Méridienne, Stage approved for cross-writing in Lunéville; Le Passage, Stage approved for Theater and Objects in Fécamp; Le Sablier, National Center for Puppet Production in preparation, Ifs and Dives-sur-Mer; La Manufacture, CDN Nancy-Lorraine; Transversales, Stage approved for the circus in Verdun.
Supporters : World Festival of Puppet Theatres of Charleville-Mézières; Le Mouffetard, Theatre of Puppet Arts of Paris; Espace Bernard-Marie-Koltès, Conventioned Stage for Contemporary Theatre Writings of Metz; Le NEST, Cross-border CDN of Thionville-Grand Est; the LEM of Nancy; La Muda, Cultural Centre of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Lycée Paul-Lapie of Lunéville.

This show benefited from creative assistance from the Grand-Est Region, from dramatic production assistance from the DRAC Grand Est and from the support of the City of Nancy.

Press

FRANCE CULTURE

Aude Lavigne, FRANCE CULTURE (The Notebooks of Creation)

“A magnificent show with a multitude of techniques and a lot of ingenuity. A highly puppeteered theme: making the missing visible.”

TELERAMA

Thierry Voisin, TELERAMA (TT)

“In a clever triptych, composed of two solos and an exhibition, La Mue/tte pays a vibrant tribute to these women who have become emblematic of the defense of human rights. Delphine Bardot evokes those who chose to embroider to resist, mixing the gentleness of the gesture with the ferocity of the tragedy, while Santiago Moreno uses photos and videos taken from archives that recall the brutality and cynicism of the leaders responsible for the disappearance of 30,000 people.”

HUMANITY

Gérard Rossi, HUMANITY

“With tact and talent, the La Mue/tte company pays tribute to the mothers of Argentina who long denounced the “disappearance” of 30,000 of their children during the military dictatorship.
Two solos and a short film to say a lot, almost without a word. In the end, these worlds complement each other. In a range that multiplies and crosses poetry and realism, feelings and tears, smiles and hopes. With the two actors, these "mad women" defend the right to freedom and human respect, everywhere and always. A beautiful, sensitive tribute, forty years later.

THE CROSS

Marie Soyeux, THE CROSS

“In this show, the bodies of the two performers, associated with the objects, turn and transform endlessly, managing to embody multiple characters – and even crowds.”

LE FIGARO

Armelle Héliot, LE FIGARO

“An ambitious diptych whose theme is that of Argentine mothers searching for their missing children.”

ALLCULTURE

Mathieu Doctherman, ALLACULTURE.

“Les Folles succeeds with disconcerting mastery in composing a visual poem about a dark but heroic period in Argentine history. Powerful and beautiful, virtuoso and accomplished.
La Mue/tte achieves this feat of suggesting everything with delicacy and poetry, in a protean show, between theatrical play, manipulation of objects, shadow play, projections...
We come away dazzled by the range of techniques mastered by the two performers, moved by the message, and strengthened by the feeling of having been enriched, in spirit and soul, by an intelligent and sensitive proposition.”.

THE JDD

Annie Chénieux, LE JDD

“The show is captivating for its power of suggestion, its inventive qualities, the delicacy, beauty and poetry of the images, the depth of the evocation and the emotion released, both gentle and strong.”