The art of puppetry

La compagnie La Salamandre was created in 2004 in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre. It specializes in puppet-making, shows and installations, as well as a festival, monumental sculptures and scenography. Committed to both street and indoor performance, the company's stagings revolve around the puppet as a universal, multi-faceted art form. Since 2008, Compagnie La Salamandre has organized the SaperliPuppet festival of puppets and manipulated objects, held every two years in La Chapelle sur Erdre.

A whirlwind odyssey

In Un Océan d'amour, La Salamandre company follows two administrative employees as they create paper boats during their daily lives. At the turn of a page, they end up losing themselves in the maze of an offbeat universe, where paper begins to develop their imagination. This is the start of a poetic odyssey of puppetry, twists and burlesque, a stage adaptation of the comic strip by Grégory Panaccione and Wilfrid Lupano.

A remarkable adaptation

In a silent paper theater, La Salamandre company signs a vibrant adaptation of a wildly imaginative comic strip. Folding, pop-up and paper silhouettes follow one another in a staging that combines intelligent movement and rhythmic precision. In the background, the story of the romance between a lost sailor and his grieving wife is sketched out in crumpled, torn and cut-up paper. An emotional moment, reminiscent of Jacques Tati's completely mad world.

A Quebec tour with the support of IF Export

La compagnie La Salamandre toured Quebec in March with Un Océan d'amour: twelve performances were given in four different cities across the country (Montreal, Longueuil, Quebec City and Trois-Rivières) from February 25 to March 9, 2025. For these performances, the company is supported by IF Export, a program of the Institut français that accompanies French or French-based creators and cultural partners internationally, for projects involving dissemination, cooperation or presence at major prescriptor events.

The show will also tour France with a stopover in Belgium, then a detour to Spain in May 2025.