French Play Bells & Spells to be Presented Tomorrow within GIFT Festival

The GIFT Festival is an annual celebration bringing the best of the visiting arts in Tbilisi, as well as leading our country’s unique cultural profile internationally.

Since its inception, the Gift Festival hosted more than 300 international visiting groups and companies and yet remains as one of the major platforms in Caucasus for international exchange and cooperation. 

All tickets have been sold out since month for the following play: 

Aurelia, Victoria’s daughter, and Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter plays the role of a woman with kleptomaniac tendencies, a woman who succumbs to the beauty, the magic, and the stories provided to her by the items she has “borrowed.”

The objects manipulate her, direct her and, since they belong to a separate world, have a will of their own. Musical boxes make no sense at all, walls open and two dancers leap out, a dress comes alive. A clothes hanger starts walking around on the stage.

Together with Jaime Martinez, Aurelia leads the audience to a new, surrealist place, made from the magical materials that characterize the Chaplin family.

The Guardian magazine describes the play as a dreamlike odyssey of a woman who is both light-footed and light-fingered.

More details: 

Aurelia Thierrée -Bells & Spells (Vols de Nuits)
Direction – Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin
Starring – Aurélia Thiérrée and Jaime Martine

Location - Marjanishvili Theater

Date- October 30

Duration: c. 1 hour 10 minutes with no interval
in co-production with Théâtre les Célestins, Lyon/ Théâtre Atelier Carouge, Genève/ Change Performing Arts, Milano