This autumn and winter, Peut-être Theatre, set up by 35-year-old Daphna Attias in 2008 to create work at the crossing point of theatre, performance and dance for children, presents two shows, one old and one new.
The Tin Soldier opens its run at The Roundhouse, London 13 December 2014 to 4 January 2015, whilst Dare to Sea makes its world première at the Lighthouse in Poole on 28 and 29 October and its London première at Jackson’s Lane on 15 and 16 November 2014.
Dare to Sea's tour will encompass Peterborough, Artsdepot London and The North Wall Oxford. It will also tour in spring 2015.
Part of the PASS: Circus Channel initiative, Peut-être’s newest show is a collaboration with French circus company La Manœuvre and is co-directed by Attias and Gaëlle Bisellach-Roig.
On a beach at sunset, a fisherman and a woman are bewitched by a siren and dive headlong into the folds of the waves. They discover a new world teeming with wild fish, juggling mermaids and dark creatures in the Abyss.
The company conjures up this enchanted aquatic world through dance, acrobatics, hand-made live animations on overhead projectors and an original score.
The Tin Soldier, which premièred in 2012, is a festive show combining live music, dance and colourful characters to tell Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale.
A newly-minted soldier, the last one cast from an old tin spoon, stands on a single leg. Nearby, he spies a paper ballerina and he falls in love. But the course of true love never runs smooth and the soldier finds himself in an adventure to test and melt the bravest of hearts.
Peut-être Theatre brings a surreal poetic aesthetic to the world of children’s theatre. Driven by a desire to create unforgettable early theatrical experiences for young audiences, artistic director Daphna Attias’s shows effectively combine the visual, the physical and the musical.
A graduate of the MA Advanced Theatre Practice course at The Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London (with study at the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem), Attias works regularly with a range of collaborators, including lead performer and associate artist Maya Politaki and composer Yaniv Fridel.