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From September 19 to 28, 2025, Charleville-Mézières is set to experience a magical moment: the World Festival of Puppet Theatres will host 80 international companies, including the Bordeaux-based La Boîte à sel. With its immersive show Bad Block, Nouvelle-Aquitaine showcases itself as a territory of artistic innovation. Dive into the unique universe of this festival where tradition and modernity meet.Since 1961, the World Festival of Puppet Theatres (FMTM) has transformed Charleville-Mézières into the world capital of puppetry. For its 23rd edition, from September 19 to 28,...

The company has been selected to participate in the World Festival of Puppet Theatres, which will take place in Charleville-Mézières from Friday, September 19 to Sunday, September 28.The company La Boîte à sel, based in Bordeaux, has been selected to participate in the prestigious World Festival of Puppet Theatres (FMTM). The event, which is one of the largest European gatherings of live performance, will take place in Charleville-Mézières from Friday, September 19 to Sunday, September 28, 2025.The troupe will present its creation titled “Bad Block,” conceived by Céline Gar...

"The theater of sound objects imagined by Céline Garnavault and Thomas Sillard is situated at the border between theater, contemporary puppetry, art installations, and music. The small numbered cubes communicate. Do they have a soul? Mathieu Enderlin, master of ceremonies, will cleverly, with false pretenses and a talent for persuasion, make us believe it. He is wonderful. Slowly and insidiously, the audience becomes attached to the blocks, each one to theirs bearing its number. It is strange to feel the spirit of the actor slipping through, by means of the fine scenic dev...

"This confrontation with strange "blocks" suspended in space is reminiscent of a close encounter of the third kind, an invitation to dialogue with unidentified objects from a distant galaxy. Connected speakers, these interactive "blocks," some of which are entrusted to the public, invite us to dive into a rich imagination of sound and light creations. As bewildering as it is unusual, their presence guarantees an enjoyable evening full of surprises." les inrockuptibles, supplement on the FAB Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux Métropole

"Bad block and youThe Bordeaux company la Boîte à sel continues its sound explorations with Bad block, a show with a playful and participatory setup. Facing a forest of cubic amplifiers of all sizes, perched at different heights and acting as immobile (but luminous) actors, the audience is invited to manipulate blocks, which are also amplified and numbered (up to 101). Sorts of moo boxes, but much more advanced.And, magically, exchanges and interactions occur between these machines, which trigger unexpected sound effects, communicate with each other or with the spectators,...

The play "Bad Block" by the company La Boîte à sel invites the audience to participate."Bad block" was created by the company La Boîte à sel at the end of its residency at the Glob theater in Bordeaux. After 18 creations, their universe still revolves around object theater. And most often connected.The director Céline Garnavault, along with sound artist and creator Thomas Sillard, imagined for "Bad block" a hybrid installation-show that combines sound arts, digital arts, puppet arts, and new magic. An interactive experience that welcomes a group of human guinea pigs: the au...

"Discover Block, a show for ages 3 and up, immersive, without words, where the story is told through the sounds emitted by 61 small boxes."

-The theater in French is the festival Sněz tu žábu, which has presented contemporary Francophone theatrical works for the eighth time in Prague. The main guest of the festival is the French ensemble Compagnie La Boîte à sel, whose work is aimed at the youngest audience from the age of three. Contemporary French theater, music, and children's programs are offered by the eighth annual festival Sněz tu žabu, which takes place from May 24 to 27 at the NoD theater in Prague after a one-year break. It presents several contemporary plays by Francophone authors in their Czech pre...

Sound theater (...) In the meantime, in Prague, the main guest of this 2023 edition is actress and director Céline Garnavault, co-director of the Bordeaux company La Boîte à Sel. While it is aimed at all audiences, her production "Block" is specifically adapted for a young audience, from the age of three. "The show 'Block' comes from the desire to talk about the city in transformation, in constant change. I wanted to tell this phenomenon with wooden cubes and sounds. I asked sound creator Thomas Sillard to work with me. One day, he brought me a small transparent box that l...

Meeting with Céline Garnavault, creator of the company La Boite à sel, which operates in the very unique field of connected object theater and has been working for years to offer intergenerational performances accessible to everyone. Arnaud Laporte speaks with director and puppeteer Céline Garnavault, creator of La Boite à sel, who presents several plays on tour. Among them, BLOCK and TRACK, as well as BAD BLOCK, created at the end of her residency at GLOB in Bordeaux, as well as ANATOMIE and LES INVITÉ.ES.