Museu da Marioneta

Direction, Construction and Puppeteers: Cécile Chevalier and Franck FedeleMusic: Géraldine Schenkel, Seby Ciurcina, MarcelloLight Design: Florence GuillerminLight and Sound: Emilie Poirier
Schedule: 29th and 30th May at 10pmFor audiences over: 8 years oldTime: 70 minutesLanguage: French and PortugueseTechnique: Mixed 
“Fantômas!-What did you say?-I said… Fantômas.-And what does that mean?-Nothing… Everything!-But waht is it?-No one… And yet, yes, it is someone!-And what does this someone do?-spreads terror!Opening lines of “Fantômas”, the first novel in the series.
Puppets from the underworld… A special show, surreal, revolutionary and terrifying, with twenty three puppets and two puppeteers, about the universe of… Fantômas!
Fantômas is the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the arch-criminal anti-hero of a series of 32 French thrillers written before de First World War by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. He carries out the most appalling crimes: putting sulphuric acid in the perfume dispensers at a Parisian department store, releasing plague-infested rats on a ocean liner, or forcing a victim to witness his own execution by placing him face-up in a guillotine. Fantômas is the master of a thousand disguises and the leader of a vast army of “apaches” (street thugs). Fantômas is anyone and no one, everywhere and nowhere, waging an implacable war against the very bourgeois society in which he moves with such ease and assurance. “His shadow hovers over the strangest mysteries, and his traces are found near the most inexplicable crimes.”
Dark puppets, from the underground and street thugs, show us their point of view, through their deformed imagination take us in the pursuit of Fantômas, through dark streets, dangerous places, cabarets… Their adventures never end, without logic, its always Fantômas, reappearing with new identities… perhaps the only way to arrest Fantômas is maybe… to become Fantômas!
Ciclo: FIMFA LX9 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms