Moby Dick

After enchanting us with her unique universe last season (Une maison de poupée, Dracula), the virtuoso puppeteer Yngvild Aspeli returns to the Théâtre Silvia Monfort with her spectacular adaptation of Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick.

From the very first images, the stage transforms into a shifting space where waves, creatures, and visions emerge. Seven performers bring to life some fifty figures – life-size, Lilliputian, or gargantuan – creating a dense scenic material, traversed by shadows and tensions.

At the heart of the narrative, Ahab's quest, driven by his consuming obsession with the whale Moby Dick, leads the crew on a journey of no return.

Between monumental puppets, visible or invisible manipulations, and video projections, everything conspires to blur the lines between reality and illusion. The gaze wanders, fascinated, in this perpetually metamorphosing theatre of extreme beauty. « Du grand art.

» The New York Times « Visuellement splendide.  » Le Canard enchaîné « Un grand spectacle dans un univers saisissant.

eu Distribution Directed by Yngvild Aspeli Created and written with Pierre Devérines, Sarah Lascar, Daniel Collados, Alice Chéné, Viktor Lukawski, Maja Kunsic and Andreu Martinez Costa alternating with Alexandre Pallu, Vera Rozanova, Yann Claudel, Olmo Hidalgo, Cristina Iosif, Scott Koehler, Laëtitia Labre Musical composition Guro Skumsnes Moe, Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen, Havard Skaset Puppet making Polina Borisova, Yngvild Aspeli, Manon Dublanc, Sebastien Puech, Elise Nicod Set design Elisabeth Holager Lund Lighting Xavier Lescat and Vincent Loubière Video David Lejard-Ruffet Costumes Benjamin Moreau Sound Raphaël Barani Lighting technicians Vincent Loubière or Morgane Rousseau Video technicians Hugo Masson, Pierre Hubert or Emilie Delforce Sound technicians Raphaël Barani, Simon Masson or Damien Ory Stage technicians Benjamin Dupuis, Xavier Lescat or Margot Boche Assistant director (tour) Benoît Seguin Assistant director (creation) Pi