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WORDLESS! is coming to the Philharmonie de Paris on Sunday June 17th, 2018.

Two shows (4.30PM and 8.30PM).

“As a performance, Wordless! transforms the intimate act of reading comics into a group experience. Spiegelman leads you on a tour of the first graphic novels - silent picture stories made by early 20th-century masters like Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, and Milt Gross - alongside a new work of his own drawn specifically for this show, Shaping Thought. Both the images on screen, and Spiegelman’s own infectious enthusiasm for the graphic novel are enhanced by Johnston’s swinging score, performed by his Jazz sextet The Silent Six.”

“Spiegelman delights in undermining stuffy theory, letting Johnston’s music burst in to express his joy on seeing the stories that flash before us… It’s disorienting, but as he warned us at the beginning, that’s part of the point.’ Paris Review”

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