Variations pour un parapluie

Variations on an Umbrella

As part of ‘Le Mans Fête Noël: Shows for Young Audiences’, the CHOUETTE il pleut! theatre company presents: *Variations for an Umbrella*.

Object theatre, clowning and music

Ages 2 and up

It hasn’t rained for a very (too) long time. It’s all anyone’s talking about on the radio. Two sisters find the rainwear and rain gear they used to wear in their loft.

As they delve into these memories, everything comes to life and stirs beneath their meticulous fingers.

By turns clownish and innocent, by turns virtuosic and poetic thanks to a musical composition for viola da gamba based on Marin Marais’s ‘La Folia’, this whimsical duo whisks young and old audience members alike away on an adventure of strings and verse, brimming with poetry and grace

Accessibility for people with reduced mobility