Richard III

A puppet staging of William Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece.

Daring to adapt the Shakespearean classic Richard III with an actor and ... twenty-three human-sized puppets set in motion by three dancer-puppeteers: such is the ambitious and successful challenge taken up by Yoann Pencolé!

Richard III is the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of a monster: Richard of Gloucester. This deformed, incomplete being will do anything to achieve his ends and take the throne of England. A prodigious tactician and brilliant manipulator, he excels in power struggles and power plays: he's always one step ahead! But once up there, and finally as Richard III, he is consumed by madness and fear.

Richard takes control not only of the characters, but also of the dancer-puppeteers, and thus becomes the absolute master on stage, until a collective awakening emerges. Will it lead to the overthrow of the tyrant and the establishment of new rules? A grand spectacle where manipulation and power unfold in a subtle interplay between fiction and reality.

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