Adelaide Festival // 2 - 18 March 2012

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Raoul

La Compagnie du Hanneton
Designed, directed and performed by: James Thiérrée
Australian Premiere Season

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STARRING: James Thiérrée

“The mixture of absurdist playfulness would have Lewis Carroll on his feet”

The Guardian

Umbrellas become jellyfish, clothes take on a mind of their own, ghost-like elephants wander and candles won’t snuff in James Thiérrée’s world of endless invention.

One of Europe’s most versatile artists, the acrobat, clown, poet and magician uses his impish talent and extraordinary physical prowess to transform everyday objects into magical dream-like spectacles that captivate, charm and inspire.

In this mesmerising new large-scale solo show, Thiérrée is Raoul, a man without beginning or end, who tumbles through a series of utopian fantasies where acrobatics, mysterious transformations, music and dance collide – a world which is at once recognisable and yet utterly alien.


Listen to audio version

PAUL GRABOWSKY INTRODUCES RAOUL



AUSLAN INTRODUCTION FOR RAOUL



WATCH RAOUL



WHERE

Festival Theatre - Adelaide Festival Centre

WHEN

Thu 1 Mar – Fr i 2 Mar 8pm
Sat 3 Mar, Mon 5 Mar – Tue 6 Mar 7pm

DURATION

100 minutes (no interval)

TICKETS

Premium $ 99, Friends $84
A Reserve $89, Friends $76, concession $70
B Reserve $79, Friends $67, concession $60
Fringe Benefits $30

For Fringe Benefits bookings, please call BASS on 131 246.

BOOKINGS

BOOK NOW AT BASS ONLINE OR CALL 131 246

PLANNER

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Contains smoke effects

Wheelchair Access Assistive Listening Systems 50% Some background music/sounds

Wheelchair access
Assistive listening systems
Some background music/sounds.

MAP

Festival Theatre - Adelaide Festival Centre
(Adelaide Festival Centre) King William Road

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credits

A co-production with La Coursive Scène Nationale de La Rochelle, Théâtre Royal de Namur, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Théâtre de la Vil e Paris, barbic anbite09 (Barbican Theatre, London) and Crying Out Loud, Abbey Theatre Dublin, Maison de la Danse Lyon, Théâtre National de Toulouse

La Compagnie du Hanneton is supported by Fondation BNP Paribas


IMAGE CREDITS
Photo: James Thiérrée by Richard Haughton
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