History

The universe created by Buchinger’s Boot is like a chamber of wonders - where one extraordinary object or being replaces another, each time more singular than before.

Buchinger’s Boot unique blend of puppetry techniques along with their organic, circuit-bending soundtracks and beautifully disturbing images, have resonated in its audiences throughout Europe, often leaving them moved, shocked, bewildered and enthralled.

Their first work, “Shellachrymellaecum” (2005), was an electronic opera about the inaudible and the unspeakable that won two prizes ( best dramatical content and best plastic art ) at the Lleida International Puppet Festival. They went on to tour at the Prague International Festival of Puppet Art, Dresden’s Societasteater, in Marseille at the L’Embobineuse and Gardens School of Circus Arts, and Footsbarn Travelling Theatre’s 35th anniversary celebration.

The next work was The Vestibular Folds (2006), a tale about the engraving and destruction of a metaphysical gramophone record, which was created in 2006 and premiered at the Festival Neo, Institute de Teatre of Catalunia, then at the Institute of Contemporary Art for the London Mime Festival, and at the festival Printemps des Comediens in Montpellier.

In 2007 the company produced "The Armature of the Absolute" at the Teatr Antic in Barcelona on the 1st November 2007, the centenary of the death of Alfred Jarry. Invited to the Aurillac Festival in August 2008, the first time a puppet company had been invited to this festival which is dedicated to outdoor street performances.The Armature of the Absolute was presented at the Barbican Centre in January 2009 as part of the London International Mime Festival and also at the Festival Mano à Mano in Châteauroux and the International Poppenfestival in Dordrecht Holland

The universe created by Buchinger’s Boot is like a chamber of wonders - where one extraordinary object or being replaces another, each time more singular than before. This transient world contains all significant things and rarities created by both nature and man where nothing human is alien. Particularly present are marionettes and sets made from bones, woods, metals, plants, insects, bacteria, animals and their artificial copies (stuffed, preserved, anthropomorphisized, mechanized)…tools, foreign instruments, all that enlighten, please and horrify the eye. Such a collection points to a terror of classification where possibilities and combinations spiral into chaos, and the idea of enclosing nature in a closet becomes a parable for fragile interpretations, being and its foetuses.

The company has been based in Marseille (2005), Barcelona (2006/7) returning to Marseille in October 2008, where the company has moved into its artistic and administrative base. The Livery

A new young people’s show called "The Snow Flea" written and directed by Patrick Sims, this the first production to be created at The Livery. The premier 3rd November 2009 at the Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille.