Big Claus and Little Claus

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Lion and Mouse / Lion et Souris

Man and Rock/ l'Homme et le rocher

Watering Can and Spade/ l'Arrosoir et la Pelle

Lochness Monster / Le Monstre du Lochness

Man and Seagull/ l'Homme et la Mouette

Tiger Fighting/ Le Tigre qui se bat

Witch/ La Sorciere

Lion and Mouse 2/ Lion et Souris 2

Festival d'Avignon 2007

Photo Galleries/Galleries Photos

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Lion and mouse

Man rolling rock up a hill

Rock always rolls back down again!

Man frustrated with rock!

Rock suddenly expands and becomes a balloon!

Balloon floats up...

Balloon comes back down to fetch man...

man flies off pulled by the balloon...

man can fly!

Watering can and spade

Lochness Monster

Nessie

Man and seagull with broken wing

Tiger

Chameleon

Doug the elephant and the ant stuck on a hill

Giraffe tries to rescue ant.

Giant saves ant

Chair that thinks it's a cat and boot

Chair becomes...

....a snail, and boot becomes a dog

Cows get bigger

Car and fish

Fish

Shark becomes......

....a punk with a big mouth

Spade teases Watering Can who gets turned into a teapot (for being rude)

Old Watering Can and Spade meet up years later

Tree that was planted by Watering Can and Spade has grown up!

Adaptataion of Richard Bradshaw's Gorilla Sketch

Nasr Eddin (Hodja) and his donkey

Nasr Eddin's turban is stolen

Nasr Eddin blames his donkey

Donkey says he has his own turban so why steal his master's?

The Two Brothers (a sicilian tale)

Two brothers fishing

Fig Tree

Brother as knight

Brother as knight with visor

The Two Brothers

Customs Officer allows brother into the land where his brother is.

King s daughter (saved)

Six headed monster

Six headed monster

Six headed monster

King s daughter on balcony.

brother meets crow who tells him the way to witch s house

Brother comes to get brother out of jail

Blue and green brother become.....

one green brother

OMBURE THE CROCODILE/OMBURÉ LE CROCODILE (2007)

Extract from Ombure The Crocodile/ Extrait d'Ombure Le Crocodile

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Flyer - (Spectacle OMBURÉ LE CROCODILE)

The Crocodile meets a woman villager and asks her for some chocolate cakes/Le crocodile rencontre une villageoise et lui demande des gâteaux au chocolat.

The villagers harvest the cocoa to put in the cake /Les villageois récoltent le cacao pour le mettre dans le gâteau.

One of the villagers takes the cakes to the Crocodile/La villageoise apporte les gâteaux au crocodile.

The villagers flee the Crocodile/Les villageois fuient le crocodile.

The Crocodile and the Hippopotamus/Le crocodile et l'hippopotame.

The Crocodile and the Tiger/Le crocodile et le tigre.

The Crocodile and the Elephant./Le crocodile et l'éléphant.

The village chief tells his daughter about the Crocodile/Le chef du village parle du crocodile à sa fille.

The daughter is unphased by the Crocodile/La fille n'a pas peur du crocodile.

The chief's daughter and the Crocodile marry, here they are at home!/La fille et le crocodile quelques années plus tard chez eux....

Their son Gurangurane, who is half Crocodile/Leur fils, Gurangurané qui est moitié crocodile.

Gurangurane breaks down in front of the Elephant/Gurangurané pleur devant l'éléphant

Gurangurane and his father the Crocodile/Gurangurané face à son père.

THE STORY OF PERSEUS/L'HISTOIRE DE PERSÉE (2002)

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Perseus and Danae were imprisoned in a case which was then taken by boat and dumped in the sea/Persée et Danae étaient enfermés dans un coffre et jetés à la mer.

Perseus and King Polydectes/Persée et Le Roi Polydectes

Perseus flies to look for Medusa with the help of the magic slippers given to him by Hermes/Persée vole à la recherche de la Méduse à l'aide des pantoufles que Hermès lui a offerts.

He meets Atlas who holds up the sky..../Il rencontre Atlas qui tient le ciel.....

......and the Graeae, (three blind old women who share and eye)/et les Graeae, trois vielles aveugles qui partagent un oeil entre elles

He finds the hat which can make him invisible in Medusa's presence/Il trouve le casque d'invisibilité pour pouvoir s'approcher de la Méduse.

Medusa/La Méduse.

Pegasus flies out of Medusa's body when her head is cut off by Perseus/Pégase qui sort du corps de la Méduse lorsqu'elle a la tête tranchée par Persée.

The monster frightening Andromeda/Le monstre qui menace Andromède.

Perseus comes to save Andromeda/Persée vient sauver Andromède (ensuite il retourne avec elle et la tête de la Méduse à l'île de Sériphos).

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE/LE PECHEUR ET SA FEMME (1996)

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The King of The Fish swims with his subjects/Le Roi des poissons nage avec ses sujets.

A subject/Un sujet.

The King (close up)/Le Roi (vue rapprochée)

The hovel where the fisherman and his wife live/Le taudis où habite le pêcheur et sa femme.

The Wife!/LA FEMME!!

The fisherman catches the King of The Fish who grants him a wish..../Le pêcheur attrappe le roi des poissons qui lui accorde un voeu......

The wife asks for a house with a TV./La femme a la maison dont elle rêvait, avec une télévision..... Mais elle veut toujours plus, pourquoi pas.....

Next she wants a castle with guards/Un château avec des gardes?

Then to become Pope/...ou devenir Pape?

THE PRINCESS LABAM/LA PRINCESSE LABAM (1994)

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The Prince meets The King of The Parrots who tells him of The Princess Labam/Le prince rencontre le Roi Des Perroquets qui lui parle de la Princesse Labam.

The Prince begins his journey to the land of the Princess/Le prince commence son voyage vers le pays de la princesse sur son éléphant.

The Snake eats all of the Prince's sandwiches/Le serpent mange tous ses sandwiches.

The Prince leaves the Elephant behind and continues his journey on a magic bed/Le Prince quitte son éléphant après avoir rencontré un lit magique qui le transporte au pays de la Princesse....

He flies over the ocean/au dessus des océans...

Then he meets a witch who puts him up for the night/....jusqu' à ce qu'il rencontre une sorcière qui l'héberge.

The King orders the Prince to accomplish three tasks before marrying his daughter/Le roi exige que le Prince fasse trois tâches avant de pouvoir se marier avec sa fille....

The last task is to kill the Ogress/La dernière tâche: occirer l'ogresse des collines!!!

The Princess Labam in her garden/La princesse Labam dans son jardin.

The Prince and Princess dance/La princesse Labam dans son jardin.