A melodramatic tale that takes place across five scenes, Petit Pois tells the story of a little green pea, a survivor of a refugee camp from which he escaped. A military clown finds him in her vegetable garden and decides to help him, setting off on a worldwide journey in search of his family and homeland.
Using everyday objects to create a playful and whimsical realm, the Storyteller invites the audience to follow the little pea as he crosses roads, mountains, villages, and checkpoints to reunite the little pea with their peers in the vegetable garden.
This poetic, tragicomic, and absurd tale blends object theatre, clowning, physical theatre, and visual arts to delicately explain to young audiences what it means to be uprooted, confined, and rejected.
A Kleine Compagnie and Presentation House Theatre production in collaboration with Compagnie Gare Centrale. Created, written and directed by Agnès Limbos. Performed by Anaïs Pellin.
Presented by WeeFestival and Alliance Française de Toronto
About Kleine Compagnie
The Kleine Compagnie was founded in 2020 in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Xwməθkwəyəm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tseil-Waututh) First Nations. The company offers an intimate, poetic stage form for young people and adults, inspired by object theatre, clowning, and theatre of images and matter.
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