The Maker (Le Créateur ) : Dan Colley / Manus Halligan / Raymond Keane

Burlesque and wordless, a duo of metaphysical clowns, perfectly Beckettian. French premiere.

One holds a book, the other a broom. Moon faces and mime: here are two clowns replaying the eternal master-and-servant duo, in which, as one might expect, the bigger fool is not the one we think.

Irreverent as they should be, they attempt small feats of conjuring that do not always produce the desired result.

A little dance and objects appear; they play with the effects of theatre, their routine is perfectly honed, and they could have stopped there… But the machine gets carried away and the affair takes a more astonishing, even somewhat metaphysical turn.

Beckett and Buster Keaton combined are perhaps pulling the strings of this strange story from the wings… Maïa Bouteillet FOCUS IRELAND In a generous gesture, Ireland invites its artists to join its European adventure.

A precious support that the Théâtre de la Ville is making concrete, with its Irish partners, in a five-week journey of striking diversity.

For all ages of life, 10 projects and 30 performances to celebrate this powerful, embodied culture, and to drift along with a poetry that gives you permission to dream. Céad míle fáilte romhaibh! (Welcome in Gaelic)