Building the dream… creative laboratory for The dreamer in his bath.

Building the dream is Hugo Bélanger’s proposed title for the laboratory.

Inspired by the magic of Georges Méliès (who was an illusionist before becoming a filmmaker) and Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, also by the comic strips of Winsor McCay; Hugo Bélanger imagines a hermit character, living in a cabinet of curiosities. He doesn’t move from there. He dreams, in his bath, and his imagination takes us into a fanciful and whimsical universe.

As always, Hugo Bélanger and Théâtre Tout à trac merge masks, puppets and unusual machinery to create a world that borders between magic and dream. With this show-laboratory, the audience is invited to witness the research carried out by the company, and to be drawn into a breathtaking ballet of special effects and trompe-l’oeil.