Les Antliaclastes (Hérisson/France)
„The Acting Bug“
Puppet theatre
German premiere

Company
Les Antliaclastes was founded by the Canadian puppeteer and puppet-maker, Patrick Sims. He studied Film and Animation in Middlebury, USA, worked with the Bread and Puppet Theater, was the director of Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes for many years and already performed at UNIDRAM in 2011 with his work Hilum.

Performance
Invisible attractions, microscopic jokes, theatre and the plague. Suspected of having caught the disease, the director of a flea circus is taken captive and put in confinement. But he continues to put his fleas through their paces and feeds them on his own blood. The jumping parasites thus come up with one miniature number after another until the virus threatens to run rampant across the stage. The setting, props and marionettes in The Acting Bug are a surreal universe unto itself: horror-show music hall, fairground stage and a laboratory of dreams blend with Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty and film noir. And with all the mechanical and virtual bloodsuckers on stage, no one will be left not feeling itchy by the end.

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Director, Concept: Patrick Sims
Cast: Patrick Sims, Felix Fujikoon, Richard Penny
Costumes, Marionettes, Props: Patrick Sims, Josephine Biereye, Richard Penny
Stage design, Mechanics: Nicolas Hubert, Richard Penny
Lighting concept: Emmanuel Lebeau, Laurent Lureault
Lighting, Sound, Technical direction, Music composition, Electronic machine development: Oriol Viladomiu
Video: Oriol Viladomiu, Raùl Berruecco

When: Oct. 30th 2014, 9.00 p.m. / Oct. 31st 2014, 8.15 p.m.
Where: T-Werk, Schiffbauergasse 4E
Entrance fee: Price category B
Length: 55 min, in easy to understand English
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