The Bellows of the Chimera

A stage is raised, three puppets wonder how.
A veiled Sofia watches them.
One of the puppets wants to go home, another wants to survive, one wants to meet Sofia.

The Bellows of the Chimera (About Longing Through the Night) is a 45-minute Puppet Theatre that revolves around a dialogue between three figures, where objects take command as language circles back on itself.

The piece opens a metaphysical room where the brush (Sofia) seems to steer the hand, and roles blur into pure address. The characters discuss their relationship to the enigmatic Sofia, to the mysterious scenography, and to their own feelings and memories, with an underlying feeling of being trapped in a predetermined path, or script.

The scales of the metaphor shifts.

Actor — Puppet — Object — Dialogue — Subtitles — Sofia.

In an attempt at exploring what it means to inhabit a world that is always painting itself through us.

Actors:

Figure 1: Charlotte Foureaux

Figure 2: Tobias Westholm

Figure 3: Viktor Nilsson

Sofia: Andrea Sitara Gran