GIFT 2013 presents
Rêve d’Herbert
La Compagnie des Quidams, France
ABANOTUBANI, TBILISI

15 October 22:00 

Mysterious characters will invite festival-goers to join them on a fantastical adventure in old Tbilisi through the moonlit  for the show Rêve d’Herbert (Herbert’s Dream) which is being brought to the GIFT Festival 2013 by French performance group Compagnie des Quidams.

The enchanting show will see the performers themselves magically turn into giant lanterns that light the way to a grand finale full of music, movement and majesty.  It promises to be really fascinating to have one of the city’s most historic settings as the backdrop for the performance.

La Compagnie des Quidams present the a fascinating story about  shadows, long white figures, on stilts, being draped by clothes, who seem to wait for any meeting. Appearing in the course of a tree, at the corner of a street, provided with the only language of silences and slow gestures ; they begin strange secret meetings, they approach, withdraw and finally invite us to follow them...  Step by step, the five characters are transformed into voluminous 4m height characters. Deformed and majestuous at the same time, clumsy and ethereal, as come from another planet, their heads light up.  Then the enormous silhouettes take us off around a luminous star.  To a strange and bewitching music, the five characters make a magic rite which make the star rising up in the sky...  As a wick at the moon...  As in a dream

“Compagnie des Quidams have done their show in all sorts of amazing places across Europe and around the world.

The free performances of Rêve d’Herbert are in Old Tbilisi, Abanotubani on Tuesday, October 15 at 22.00. People are advised to arrive early for the show. The performance lasts about 50 minutes.