Opening Show of FIMFA Lx25 in the List of 10 Best Shows 2025
Plexus Polaire
Newspapers Público/Ípsilon and Observador
A DOLL'S HOUSE by Plexus Polaire included in the list of the 10 best shows 2025 in Portugal, by newspapers Público/Ípsilon - Gonçalo Frota and Observador - Joana Moreira!
It was the opening show of FIMFA Lx25, presented at the São Luiz Teatro Municipal!
It was a great edition celebrating the 25th anniversary.
We would like to thank São Luiz and its team for their support in presenting FIMFA, and a big thank you to Yngvild Aspeli and her company for this incredible show!
"There is no shortage of versions of Ibsen's play, but the phantasmagorical approach, directed by and starring Yngvild Aspeli, surrounded by human-sized puppets, makes this story of domestic and familial suffocation a magnificent exercise in liberation. The liberation from Ibsen's weight for a Norwegian creator, of a play here magnified by the fears it conveys (thanks to the spiders that keep growing, in proportion to a dissatisfaction that can no longer be ignored), of a character who decides to confront their demons and deny them any power. A show where technical prodigiousness is on par with dramaturgical finesse."
-Gonçalo Frota, Público - Ípsilon (19/12/2025)
"Plexus Polaire's approach to Ibsen's classic A Doll's House, which opened this year's edition of FIMFA — International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms, is a journey through the fantastic. The Norwegian Yngvid Aspeli is the director, puppeteer and actress who shares the stage with hyper-realistic puppets (birds and hybrid bodies mix together), which, over time, grow as symbols of domestic oppression. It is a show that really drew us in, enchants and disturbs us."
-Joana Moreira, Observador (24/12/2025)
-A DOLL'S HOUSE - Plexus Polaire (FR-NO)
8 to 10 May 2025 - São Luiz Teatro Municipal - Sala Luiz Miguel Cintra
Visit the FIMFA Lx25 gallery to see more images.
Photography: © Alípio Padilha; ©EGEAC - Teatro São Luiz, Pedro Rosário Nunes
A DOLL'S HOUSE by Plexus Polaire included in the list of the 10 best shows 2025 in Portugal, by newspapers Público/Ípsilon - Gonçalo Frota and Observador - Joana Moreira!
It was the opening show of FIMFA Lx25, presented at the São Luiz Teatro Municipal!
It was a great edition celebrating the 25th anniversary.
We would like to thank São Luiz and its team for their support in presenting FIMFA, and a big thank you to Yngvild Aspeli and her company for this incredible show!
"There is no shortage of versions of Ibsen's play, but the phantasmagorical approach, directed by and starring Yngvild Aspeli, surrounded by human-sized puppets, makes this story of domestic and familial suffocation a magnificent exercise in liberation. The liberation from Ibsen's weight for a Norwegian creator, of a play here magnified by the fears it conveys (thanks to the spiders that keep growing, in proportion to a dissatisfaction that can no longer be ignored), of a character who decides to confront their demons and deny them any power. A show where technical prodigiousness is on par with dramaturgical finesse."
-Gonçalo Frota, Público - Ípsilon (19/12/2025)
"Plexus Polaire's approach to Ibsen's classic A Doll's House, which opened this year's edition of FIMFA — International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms, is a journey through the fantastic. The Norwegian Yngvid Aspeli is the director, puppeteer and actress who shares the stage with hyper-realistic puppets (birds and hybrid bodies mix together), which, over time, grow as symbols of domestic oppression. It is a show that really drew us in, enchants and disturbs us."
-Joana Moreira, Observador (24/12/2025)
-A DOLL'S HOUSE - Plexus Polaire (FR-NO)
8 to 10 May 2025 - São Luiz Teatro Municipal - Sala Luiz Miguel Cintra
Visit the FIMFA Lx25 gallery to see more images.
Photography: © Alípio Padilha; ©EGEAC - Teatro São Luiz, Pedro Rosário Nunes