Imaginale 2025: Letters from my father

CIE GARE CENTRALE (BE)
(The letters of my father)
75 min. | puppet, object and narrative theater
English, few subtitled French passages
Adults and young people aged 16 and over

In 1959, the Limbos family lived in the Congo, which was still a Belgian colony at the time. A year later, in the year of independence, the children were sent back to Belgium to live with their uncle, a pastor. This episode was traumatic for the then eight-year-old Agnès Limbos.
Her father wrote 46 letters to his children during the period of separation. Little Agnes waited eagerly for each one. "Every time a letter arrived, our uncle would sit down with us in the two large leather armchairs and read it to us solemnly. The seventy-year-old woman I have become now wishes to have a conversation with this young girl." (Agnès Limbos)
The master of object theater opens up a narrative space in which biographical and historical past resonate with each other - as intimate as they are universal.

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