Pubblicato il 1 December 2025 da Redazione in Actuality, Events, Nice

The Théâtre Francis-Gag Beats to a Canadian Rhythm!

A dive into Canadian creativity: staged readings, puppetry, surreal humour and performances for all audiences.

The Théâtre Francis-Gag Goes Canadian

The season opens with an artistic journey from across the Atlantic — poetry, bold imagination, puppetry performances and iconic Canadian humour. Two unmissable events filled with emotion and inventiveness.

KIWI — Staged Reading

By Daniel Danis — Éditions de l’Arche
Saturday, November 29 — 6 pm
Photo credit: Emmanuelle Seguin

Kiwi and Litchi, two teenagers left to fend for themselves, navigate a society that chooses to demolish shantytowns to welcome the Olympic Games… A powerful and tender fable, moving and essential.

Artistic team
• Reading: Sophie de Montgolfier and Jonathan Gensburger
• Staging: Marie-Jeanne Laurent
• Production: Compagnie du Dire-Dire

Audience: from 11 years — Duration: 1h

More info | Tickets

The Event of the Season

THE BABY TYLER SHOW & EPIDERMIS CIRCUS

By Ingrid Hansen and Britt Small
Puppet cabaret & live animation film

Presented in major international puppet festivals — Charleville-Mézières, Calgary… — these shows carry you into a miniature, surreal, wildly imaginative universe.

THE BABY TYLER SHOW — For all the family (from age 5)

• Thursday, December 4 — 2 pm (SOLD OUT)
• Saturday, December 6 — 2 pm

A whirlwind of adventures and mischief led by the irresistible Baby Tyler. Canadian humour at its most tender, poetic and delightfully absurd.

EPIDERMIS CIRCUS — From age 13

• Friday, December 5 — 8 pm

A journey into a world between real and imagined, where puppetry becomes skin, image and living matter.

Artistic team

• Direction: Britt Small
• Creation & manipulation: Ingrid Hansen
• Music: Hank Pine
• Images: Hélène Cyr
• Coproduction & collaboration: Kathleen Greenfield
• Supported by: CRD Arts Council & Canada Council for the Arts

Bio — Ingrid Hansen

Canadian performer, actress and puppeteer trained in part with Jim Henson (creator of the Muppets and Fraggle Rock). She co-founded SNAFU — Society of Unexpected Spectacles, devoted to surprising and unconventional performance art.