Tomoe Kobayashi & Simon Moers

After four years at Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS) in Brussels, where he specialised in theatrical interpretation, Simon Moers went on to study puppetry at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette in France and is now a stage director and actor-puppeteer with the Projet D collective.

Costume designer and visual artist Tomoe Kobayashi is a scenography graduate from Musashino University (Tokyo). She has worked with Philippe Genty and Mika Kurosawa on numerous occasions, alternating between France, Japan and Switzerland.

The duo’s project focused on the violence that is increasingly present in our lives, in multiple forms. Every human being has a myriad reasons to rebel, to experience frustration or the urge to destroy. This project uses puppet theatre to distance the viewer from reality and allow humour to exist side by side with cruelty.