Vélo Théâtre - “There’s a Rabbit in the Moon”
Le Courrier de l’ouest / Cholet / 15 february 2006
The dream at “Jardin de Verre”:
Magic and poetry mix with anguish and fears of the night
in an unusual and surrealistic performance
for adult and children.
The company Velo Théâtre proposes “There’s a rabbit in the moon” led by a strange and poetic Charlot Lemoine alias Thomas Snout.
Sometimes the night is filled with curious and strange things, fragments of dreams or nightmares. Sometimes in the night our fears accumulate and give us a trying ordeal. Sometimes in the night a little tin soldier meets up with a dancer in a silver grey mercedes...
Velo Théâtre’s nightime is a whole world of appealing objects from another era. They communicate their own story adding meaning to the performance and the role of the comedien.
Thomas snout is someone a bit scary, almost a kind of ghost that we sometimes discover in our dreams. He fascinates his audience enticing them to share their most intimate and secret fears.
“We want to communicate closely with children and talk about their night time fears”, says Charlot Lemoine. “We have been working with objects for the last 25 years and with “There’s a Rabbit in the Moon” we recognize the child’s capacity for abstraction which permits them to leave the paths which are marked by reason. It is this freedom that we offer to our audience.”
It is the surrealastic part of the show which sets it apart from other more linear productions for children. Here the world of every day objects leaves its routine place a dream-like world filled with poetry.
M-J LR