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Descended from an illustrious family of puppeteers from Liège, they reappear every spring.
The old family handcart is pulled across the square.
Didier grumbles a few words, grabs the unruly children and
parents who mistake his travelling puppet show for their television.
with their television sets.
He harangues the crowd and sets up his old puppets on the cart.
“Today, the legend of the Devil’s Gate! Come along, our puppets
our puppets make children grow taller and old men younger! You
You won’t look any dumber here than you do at football!
The tone is set: a colourful show combining tradition and current events
colourful, with adults and children alike enjoying the puppets for some, and the actor’s truculence for others.
With the support of the Rayonnement de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Image of Bruxelles, the Lotere iNationale and Ixelles District.