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Performance options Start time Language Availability
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 9:45 am French sold out
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:30 pm French Seats available
Thursday, April 11, 2019 9:45 am French sold out
Friday, April 12, 2019 9:45 am French sold out

“Warning: do NOT eat the blue candy. It could be an alien’s eyeball, and then anything could happen! In Larry Tremblay’s cosmogony, strange things can become real, especially if they enter the orbit of the puppets from the Théâtre de l’Œil!”

The grass is always bluer on the other side of the fence

Marco meets Marco Bleu. He’s a mirror image of Marco, except he’s all blue. On his planet, it’s always a holiday; there are gift machines and a talking candy dispenser. Then, ding! ding!, the bell rings, and Marco has to choose: go back to his exhausted parents and the screaming baby, or stay forever in this fabulous place. A philosophico-spatial dilemma!

The Théâtre de l’Œil’s amazing puppets embrace Larry Tremblay’s writing in this adaptation of the acclaimed children’s graphic novel Même pas vrai. Like the promise of a starry sky!

Artists

  • larry-tremblay-bernard-prefontainecouleur
    Written by Larry Tremblay
  • andrepretzel-2
    Directed by André Laliberté
  • Directed by Martine Beaulne
  • richardlacroix-theyaytre-de-loeil
    Set design and puppets Richard Lacroix
  • alex-trahan-andreyanne-gauthier
    Actor Alex Trahan
  • Actor Eloi Cousineau
  • julie-renault-jonathan-malenfant
    Actor Julie Renault
  • jeremiedesbiens2-creditmarionchuniaudlacau
    Actor Jérémie Desbiens
  • With Eloi Cousineau, Jérémie Desbiens, Julie Renault and Alex Trahan
  • Set design and Marionettes Richard Lacroix
  • Lighting Gilles Perron
  • Sound Ludovic Bonnier
  • Produced by Le Théâtre de l’Œil

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