Alice Laloy’s creative process leans toward a research-based theatre where puppets, materials, machines, actors, and sound compositions intersect in the service of poetic writing.
Alice Laloy seeks a language. She writes through staging. Her approach is nourished by a dialogue between a concrete, practical logic—cultivated through “tinkering”—and a mental logic of “daydreaming” that evolves through free associations. Her theatre is populated with images.
With the performers and materials she gathers, she strives to make these visual sensations tangible, following a logic that belongs to the world she orchestrates. In her work, everything is transformation, metamorphosis—both visual and sonic.
ALICE LALOY
Alice Laloy graduated from the 32nd class (1998–2001) of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg school, specializing in scenography and costume design.
During her studies at the TNS, Alice Laloy discovered puppetry and began questioning this alternative approach to theatre. In 2002, she founded the company s’Appelle Reviens to further her research, alongside her work as a scenographer and costume designer.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Depending on the shows and the grammars used, Alice Laloy surrounds herself with performers—actors, dancers, circus artists, singers, and/or puppeteers—who form hybrid teams on stage, where disciplines influence and blend with one another.
La Compagnie s’Appelle Reviens is also a large team of artists and craftspeople who have been collaborating on the design and production of the shows, most of them for many years.
SCENOGRAPHY-PROPS
Antonin Bouvret, Jane Joyet, Benjamin Hautin
COSTUMES
Maya-Lune Thiéblemont , Anne Yarmola, Angélique Legrand
MUSIC
Csaba Palotaï, Eric Recordier
CHOREGRAPHER
Cécile Laloy, Stéphanie Chêne
AUTHORS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
Stéphanie Farison, Emmanuelle Destremau
GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND TYPOGRAPHER
Maud Guerche
PARTNERS
Alice Laloy is an associate artist at Malakoff Scène Nationale and Le Préau – CDN de Vire. She is also an associate artist at T2G – CDN de Genevilliers and Théâtre de l’Union, CDN du Limousin in Limoges, until the end of the 2025/26 season.
From 2018 to 2022, Alice Laloy was an associate artist at Le Mouffetard-Théâtre des Arts de la Marionnette-Paris for four years.
Since 2023, the company has been supported by the DRAC Hauts-de-France, the Hauts-de-France Region, and the Urban Community of Dunkirk. With additional support from the Département du Nord and the City of Dunkirk.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2009: Molière Award for Best Young Audience Show for 86 centimètres
2010: Nominated for the Molière Award for Best Young Audience Show for Y es-tu ?
2012: Prize for Creation/Experimentation at the International Puppetry Institute
2014: CNT Grant for Plural Dramaturgies (Writing Support) for Sous ma peau/Sfu.ma.to
2016: CNT Grant for Plural Dramaturgies (Writing Support) for Ça dada
2017: Winner of the Hors les Murs 2017 grant from the Institut Français for the Pinocchio(s) project, developed in Mongolia in October 2017
2020: ARTCENA Grant for Plural Dramaturgies (Writing Support) for Death Breath Orchestra
LE BERCAIL
Since January 2023, La Compagnie s’Appelle Reviens has been based at Le Bercail—a creation hub for puppetry and associated arts in Dunkirk.
