Saumont Philip, Born on 22/10/64 in Paris, married, 3 children Philippe Saumonttrained as a puppeteer and founded the company "Tarabates Theatre" in 1998. The company produces shows for young audiences. He continued the work of his grandfather (Louis Georges Bogrand), who 1933 had founded the Theater Guignol du Passage de la Poste in St Brieuc. (Guignol is the traditional puppet theatre of France) Tarabates Theatre brings together in its productions not only puppetry but also object theatre and acting. It also searches and develops new aesthetic forms of dramatic representation. This is a theatre trying to give an organic and visual reality to poetry and stories. Philippe Saumont has not lost sight of the practice of traditional puppetry. He discovered Guignol with his grandfather, and later became a pupil of Bruno Leone to the National Arts School of Puppetry in Charleville Mezieres (France) and Naples (Italy). With this training, he in turn has become a "Master" teaching regularly at the FAC Theatre of Havana (Cuba) and Managua (Nicaragua) and of course in France. Tarabates Theatre now plays in many prestigious festivals such as Avignon Festival, the Festival of Charleville, Mezieres Festival, Grand Bornand and has also toured abroad Italy, Spain, Poland, Denmark, UK, Tunisia , Cuba, Nicaragua ... .. The Theatre of Tarabates recently opened a new home:_x0019_ The Creation of Residence Puppetry Workspace Theatre Company of TaRaBaTeS, La Recre is a space for research, fellowship, training and documentation for Puppetry Arts and its associates. Philippe Saumont also created the festival of puppetry in 1997, "The Marionnet'IC" festival of Puppetery which now attracts over 10,000 spectators each year.
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