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"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.

TTT - We love passionately - “ Connected sound object theater? Imagine a transparent cube that emits a sound when it is turned over, a technological version of the "moo" box. On stage, a woman discovers one, which beeps, first under her hard hat, then another, a third, a fourth..., each broadcasting an urban noise in a different location. She organizes, masters the situation like a good site manager, until the accumulation of sounds and cubic objects (about sixty) absorbs her. The object then takes control... The audience observes universes being created, changing atmospher...

"Sixty small transparent sound cubes that are connected for a scenography of great sobriety and, in the middle, a woman who composes and draws the city with her sound and light architectures... Such is the project of Block, a vast construction game imagined by Céline Garnavault and her team. With Thomas Sillard, the designer of the blocks and sound creator, she has reinvented the "boîte à meuh," which only works if you turn it over. Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful shows for young audiences of the season."

" Céline Garnavault and her team have created a unique and inventive device for what is one of the prettiest surprises of this young audience season. The actress evolves alone, in the foreground for a few moments before a scenography of great sobriety but full of surprises is revealed. About sixty small transparent and connected cubes have invaded the entire play area. In the middle, manipulating these blocks, Céline Garnavault composes and draws a city with its sound and light architectures... The well-behaved construction game of the first moments begins to "form a block"...