Anatole is always dragging his little saucepan behind him. It gets stuck everywhere and keeps him from going places. One day, he has had enough. He decides to hide. Luckily, things are not quite that simple…

Anatole and his saucepan evoke another way of being in our world, of looking at it and perceiving it; another way, at times funny, strange or poetic, of going through life. Anatole lags behind, often missing the point, but he is also well ahead, in places where other people have forgotten to be.

Each one of us is also Anatole with his saucepan. We drag along baggage, “saucepans”, that weigh us down and embarrass us. Unable to get rid of them, we must learn to become comfortable with our baggage and even to transcend it. Anatole’s saucepan is perhaps more visible but his journey is akin to our own: the search to comprehend that our imperfections are often just strengths that are harder to love.

Based on the book by
Isabelle Carrier (Ed. Bilboquet)

Adapted and directed by
Cyrille Louge

Puppets and objects design
Francesca Testi

Cast
Anthony Diaz or Dominique Cattani

&

Francesca Testi or Céline Romand

Puppets and objects built by
Francesca Testi, with the help of Anthony Diaz

With the voice of
Aldona Nowowiejska

Sound consultant
Paul-Édouard Blanchard

Puppet stage built by
Sandrine Lamblin

Technicians
Julien Barrillet

Aurore Beck

Angélique Bourcet

With musics by
Edward Perraud

Alexandre Desplats

Tin Hat Trio

Tino Rossi

Jean Sibelius & Wendy Carlos

Aldona Nowowiejska

Length : 37 minutes

Appropriate for non-French speakers

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With the aid of

ARCADI – dispositif d’accompagnement

Région Poitou-Charentes

Rehearsal residency at the

Studios de Virecourt (86)

With the support of

Théâtre de l’Abbaye (St-Maur-des-Fossés, 94)