Since Friday and until Sunday, around forty actors from SLT (Son Lumière Théâtre) lead dramatized tours of Saint-Germain-Laprade. And all sessions are sold out.
Ten sites are visited. It begins at the bottom of the village in front of the plain to evoke the Plaid of Saint-Germain in 976, an assembly of the peace of God which was born in Saint-Germain.
We then meet in front of the church to discuss the fire of 1925 where 17 houses burned, in front of the grocery store to talk about agriculture and the confrontation of generations.
We listen during a couvige where the lacemakers evoke the Perbet mill and its extraordinary phenomena experienced by two girls “possessed by the demon” in 1902 (a story to be found for example in Alexis Breton’s book “La Sarabande cursed virgins”).
We end at the cultural center where Emile Reynaud is resurrected to talk about his praxinoscope, the ancestor of the cartoon.
These skits are taken from the 8 shows created by SLT since 1999 and performed in front of several thousand spectators. “Our leitmotif is to tell the history of France seen from Saint-Germain-Laprade,” says the director, Jean-Paul Galisson.
