Théâtre Royal de Toone

Look for the small wooden sign in the tiny alleyway -- impasse Schuddeveld -- to reach this theater, in an upstairs room in a bistro of the same name. It's the latest in the Toone line of puppet theaters, which dates back to the early 1800s -- the title being passed from one puppet master to the next -- and it may be the most popular theater in Brussels. At Toone, puppet master José Géal presents his adaptation of such classic tales as The Three Musketeers, Faust, and Hamlet in the Brussels dialect, Brussels Vloms, and in English, French, Dutch, and German. In any case, language should present no difficulties since it's easy to follow the action on stage.

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