Friday 29 August at 19:00
Saturday 30 August at 19:00
Grīvas mēbeles, Daugavgrīvas street 31k-3

Puppet theatre for adults and children from 7/ without text/ 70 min
Tickets Ls 7, concession Ls 5 (children, students,seniors)
Free entrance for children under 5

Director Michel Laubu
Assistant to the director Emili Hufnagel
Lighting design Dominique Legland
On stage Michel Laubu
Assistants Emmeline Beaussier, Charly Frénéa

In cooperation with Centre Culturel Français in Riga, Culturesfrance, City of Lyon and saloon "Grīvas mēbeles"

The first thing you see entering the performance, is an amazing stage construction, built together of ropes, wires, strings and wooden pieces. Like a fragile, living organism it moves and breathes, makes sounds and plays music, lights go on and out, windows open and doors close almost by itself.
This poetic world of everyday junk and old crap is inhabited by four fascinating characters. One day one of them gets a strange message and starts on a quest that takes him and us along through places and time...Created from everyday objects and inspired by the stays in Russia, Indonesia, Syria and France, the show is a visual, sensual and loving story about all kinds of human experiences.

The four fascinating residents have been created from the objects that their author Michel Laubu has found along a bout trip in France - you can easily recognise kitchen utensils, wooden pieces, old pyjamas... Like a good archaeologist of the ordinary, Michel Laubu picks up old and used stuff that nobody notices and sooner or later turns it into one of the characters of his Turaquie land. He sees a face and soul in any object around him, and has been creating puppets for 20 years now. Much of his extraordinary lifetime work can bee seen in the expo "The Family Album".

Expo „The family Album" at the saloon „Grīvas mēbeles" from 27 till 30 August. Free entrance.

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