Une Traversée
Premiere on 18th Novembre 2025 at Théâtre de la Cité de Toulouse (France), as part of Festival Marionnettissimo 2025
A performance by Compagnie Tchaïka
Freely inspired by ‘Through the Looking-Glass’ by Lewis Carroll
In a room, a young child plays with a kitten. Asleep, she observes the world from the other side of the mirror, and launches into a game of survival, where compromise, despair and empowerment make you grow.
A game to not sink, but to stay strong, to assert yourself, to keep your name and your personality firmly in mind. A game in which you must participate, even as a Pawn on the big chessboard, even if it would have been better to be Queen.
Through the eyes of a child, Une Traversée explores the mysteries and mechanisms of consciousness and imagination that activate to face the absurdity of our world on the verge of collapse, torn apart by the madness of war.
Inspired by the masterpiece work by Lewis Caroll, which follows the famous Alice in Wonderland, Natacha Belova and Tita Iacobelli, with the help of puppets and the misappropriation of objects, engulf the public in this world now orphaned by all rationality where the absurd logic of a child’s fantasy suddenly becomes salutary, an indispensable weapon against the manipulation of words and the domination of harmful ideas.
A child-level immersion in an absurd world torn apart by the idiocy of war
Cast & Credits
Direction and dramaturgy Natacha Belova and Tita Iacobelli
Performers (alternating) Elise Reculeau, Emilie Eechaute,
Lou Hebborn , Marina Simonova and Tita Iacobelli
Puppet design Natacha Belova and Marta Pereira
Set design Aurélie Borremans
Sound design Simón González
Costumes Jackye Fauconnier
Choreography /Outside eye Nicole Mossoux
Lighting Aurélie Perret
Assistant direction Maël Christyn de Ribaucourt
Construction Ralf Nonn
Production Charlotte Evrard
Production Compagnie Tchaïka, DC&J Création, with the support of Tax Shelter of Federal Gouvernement of Belgium and Inver Tax Shelter
Coproduction Théâtre de Liège, Le Vilar, Théâtre les Tanneurs, Maison de la Culture de Tournai, Théâtre de la Cité & Marionnettissimo, Théâtre Antoine Vitez, Casteliers, Centre National de la Marionnette – Le Sablier, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville Mézières – with the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and the Commission Communautaire Française
Tour
Upcoming dates
2026
11 > 13 December : Les Tanneurs, Brussels (Belgium)
2027
26 > 28 January : Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Chicago (USA)
18 > 21 February : Teatro Metastasio, Prato (Italy)
11 > 12 March : Les 3 scènes – Grand Saint-Dizier (France)
01 > 02 April : Centre Culturel de Nivelles (Belgium)
Past Dates
2026
31 March > 04 April : Le Vilar, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
17 > 21 March: Théâtre Antoine Vitez, Ivry-sur-Seine (France)
08 > 11 April: Théâtre de Liège (Belgium)
07 > 08 March: Festival Casteliers, Montreal (Canada)
26 > 28 February: Le Diamant, Quebec (Canada)
27 January: Le Sablier, Ifs (France)
14 > 16 January: Maison de la Culture de Tournai (Belgium)
2025
26 November > 05 December: Théâtre des Tanneurs, Brussels (Belgium)
18 > 21 November: Théâtre de la Cité, Toulouse (France)
as part of the Festival Marionnettissimo 2025
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CONTACT
Compagnie Tchaïka
direction@tchaïka.art
Avec l'aide de
Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Arts de la scène
Wallonie-Bruxelles International
Commission Communautaire Française
