The Eternal Day of Michel de Ghelderode 1892-1962. Synthesis - Mask - Spectacle - ACE103.4

Sign for Théatre Toone VI; VO announcing Le siege d'Ostende (1933). Caption: "Toone marionette theatre had its birth in the quartier of the Marolles in Brussels. Its dynasty goes back to 1812 with Toone I and extends to the present with Toone VII. De Ghelderode wrote five texts for marionettes." Ghelderode at the marionette theatre; VO talking about puppet theatre and man as puppet, etc. Caption: "1937. Fastes d’Enfer (Chronicles of Hell). Tragedy-bouffe in one act. Extract." Caption: "Jan in Eremo, Bishop of Lapideopolis, lay dead in his mortuary chamber having been poisoned by his entourage of odious priests led by Simon Laquedeem." Puppet Laquedeem complains about the "false corpse", calls to Eremo, but is finally convinced he is dead.