Bon voyage !

Bon voyage ! is a creation for young audiences with the central theme of grief. The narrative framework of this puppet show is mainly composed from intimate citizen testimonies. In May 2022, the Bon Voyage ! team will travel to Moncton, New Brunswick to meet with teenage groups. Through discussions about grief and shadow theater exercises, the Bon Voyage ! team will use the teenagers’ vision of the characters in the show as the visual signature of the puppets under construction.

Isabelle Bartkowiak (Québec) biography

Student in the directing program at the National Theatre School of Canada, Isabelle Bartkowiak is a graduate of the Department of Dramatic Arts at the Université de Moncton (2009-2013) and of the DESS in Contemporary Puppet Theatre at UQAM (2017-2019). Isabelle is one of the founders of Théâtre la Cigogne (Moncton). She has worked on each of the company’s collective creations, including : Paul et la mer (2013), Le Loup; l’histoire d’un incompris (2015), Le froid est un détail de l’hiver (2016). She is also a member of the collective Les Blettes, which is dedicated to the creation of short playful puppet forms (Le grand déménagement (2018), Les fables de la buvette (2019). More recently, we have seen her in Pays de la Sagouine where she plays the role of Marie Dupont, as well as in the young public puppet play RADI produced by the company CAMPE (QC).