Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

The play, featuring actors and puppets, takes us on board the Nautilus, the legendary vessel that is both a sea monster and a state-of-the-art ship commanded by Captain Nemo. Here, we find all of the characters from Jules Verne’s novel: Professor Aronnax and his loyal servant Conseil who, before being shipwrecked and becoming Nemo’s prisoners, had set off in pursuit of the famous giant narwhal on board the Abraham Lincoln together with the harpooner Ned Land. Captain Nemo, the epitome of a modern pirate, takes them against their will on a round-the-world voyage across the oceans, where scientific experiment is mixed with the poetry of the ocean’s depths. The actors, supported by a shoal of fish, take us on a journey to the heart of this literary masterpiece.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea won the Molière Award for Visual Creativity in 2016 and the Critics Award for Best Set Design in 2016.

Approximate running time: 1h20 without intermission

Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort

Pauline Tricot, Laurent Natrella, Eric Prat and Mikael Fau

With the voice of Cécile Brune

• Set designer and costumes: Eric Ruf
• Lighting design: Pascal Laajili
• Sound design: Dominique Bataille
• Puppets created by: Carole Allemand et Valérie Lesort
• Assistant set designer: Delphine Sainte-Marie
• Costume assistant: Siegrid Petit-Imbert

Point Fixe company

Coproduction : Théâtre de la Porte Saint Martin; Espace Jean Legendre–Théâtres de Compiègne; Théâtre de Caen; Théâtre National de Nice-CND Nice Côte d’Azur; La Coursive - La Rochelle National Theatre; Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon; Bateau Feu, Dunkirk National Theatre; Equilibre Nuithonie; Points communs, New National Theatre of Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise; Théâtre des Sablons Neuilly-sur-Seine