"I am sitting behind my bedroom window and I wait. It has been a long time since I have felt pain, but I know it will come back once again. Sooner or later it will come back. In spite of everything, I cannot get rid of the certainty that my hand, no matter what its condition, is somewhere nearby. At the place where it is, it sends pricks of pain that I receive in my stump; like a radio receiving signals from an unknown station..."

But this illogical pain is strangely connected to the appearance of a woman who wanders alone in the night.

Created as one of the projects at L'École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières in June 2008, Signaux was then presented at the festival FigurenArt Reutlingen and the “Versuchungs” festival in Germany, then at the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes in Charleville-Mézières in September 2009.

Directed and Puppets by: Yngvild Aspeli
Scenography: Guillaume Hunout
Lighting Design: Daniel Linard and Laetitia Labre
Sound Design: Laetitia Labre and Jørn Erik Ahlsen
Pedagogy Accompaniment: Pascale Blaison and Paola Rizza
Performers: Pierre Tual, Laura Sillanpää, Polina Borisova and Yngvild Aspeli

Adapted from the Short Story by Bjarte Breiteig
Techniques: Drawings, Life-Size and Hand-Size Puppets

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