A six-year-old bowing to an egg, the adoration of a madman for an old photograph, a father saying no, Maria Antonietta's automatic, the fall into the frozen Rhine, a shared diary, eight children - one for each note of an octave, two hearts becoming fingers. A contemporary post-romantic text that moves the threads of the coexistence of a historical couple and weighs the mixture of envy and adoration between two fellow artists. Can a marionette surpass its creator? How does the engine of a genius go out of tune? Who moves the threads of human creativity?

The case of Clara Schumann is revealing. A prodigy girl who evolved into a star of piano artistry; a brilliant exception in an era where the woman-artist was a rare species. The work "Clara Schumann": the charismatic faces of a super-marionette by Maria Giannou is a fragmented seance of communication with great spirits; the pianist Clara Schumann and the composer Robert Schumann. Two parallel monologues interspersed with whispers from Kleist, Hoffmann, Chamisso, capture the atmosphere of Romanticism to linguistically and tonally shift it into a new context.