THE bizarre instruments came first, but when French troupe La Fausse Compagnie read Maylands artist/author Shaun Tan’s The Arrival it was a case of art imitating art, imitating life.
“We discover at the beginning of our show picture of street musicians [in Tan’s book]. It is coincidence because we have here,” Thomas Le Saulnier told the Voice, pointing to the comical instruments lining the walls of his French home.
The show Le Chant des Pavillons (Song of the Horns) is based on The Arrival, a story in pictures of being a stranger in a strange country, told through a “delightfully weird marriage of strings, horns and vocals”.
“We try with character and show to connect and show emotion only with music, without words,” Le Saulnier says.
La Fausse Compagnie is amongst scores of acts heading to Fremantle for the annual Fremantle Street Arts Festival, being held on the Easter long weekend April 19 to 21.
Programs are available at the Fremantle library, or online.
by JENNY D’ANGER
Perth Voice Interactive 
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