The stars of Frédéric Fisbach's "Les Paravents" ("The Screens") are the finely manipulated string puppets of the Youkiza Marionnette Theater, one of the few companies in Japan to practice string "bunraku" (marionnettes), and that for the last 360-years. Incarnating the myriad characters of Genet's labyrinthine work, and principally the French colons in Algeria, the marionnettes underscore Genet's biting humor and critique of these "puppets" of French colonial power in North Africa.
Photos: Christophe Raynaud de Lage/Festival d'Avignon
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