From the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival: A marionette made of ice will melt your heart in Anywhere, an exquisite, landmark string-marionette work created by the French company Théâtre de l’Entrouvert. Freely inspired by Henry Bauchau’s novel “Oedipus on the Road,” Anywhere evokes the long wandering of Oedipus accompanied by his daughter Antigone. The fallen Oedipus appears in the form of an ice puppet that gradually melts, then appears as mist and finally disappears in the forest, the place of clairvoyance. Anywhere traces with gentleness and strength a poetic journey, in black and white, of fire and ice, which speaks to us about our bodies, our environment, our fragilities, and our wanderings in the infinite circle of renewal.
Original Artistic Direction, Conception and Design: Elise Vigneron and Hélène Barreau
U.S. Direction: Claire Saxe
U.S. Puppeteer and Ice craft: Mark Blashford
U.S. Dancer: Ashwaty Chennat

All photos: Richard Termine

HERE Arts 2025. Photo: Richard Termine

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HERE Arts 2025. Photo: Richard Termine

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