Rabbit Hole
- By
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- Direction
- Claudia Stavisky
- Performed by
- Julie Gayet, Patrick Catalifo, Lolita Chammah, Nanou Garcia, Renan Prévot
This 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire paints a nuanced portrait of Becky and Howard, who each try in their own way to recover from the accidental death of their son. But when this family of ‘three’ reverts to […]
In the skin of the monster
- By
- « Lilli / HEINER intra-muros » de Lucie Depauw et « Intégral dans ma peau » de Stéphanie Marchais
- Direction
- Cécile Auxire-Marmouget et Christian Taponard
- Performed by
- Cécile Auxire-Marmouget, Coralie Leblan, Christian Taponard, Valentin Dilas, Marin Moreau, Raphaële Thiercelin, Lisa Torres
To bring Lilli/HEINER intra-muros by Lucie Depauw and Intégral dans ma peau by Stéphanie Marchais to the stage is to present the cast with demanding and subtle roles because of their acuity, poetry and musicality. Situated between humour and tragedy, […]
Tarkovski, the body of the poet
- By
- Julien Gaillard, Antoine de Baecque et Andreï Tarkovski
- Direction
- Simon Delétang
- Performed by
- Hélène Alexandridis, Thierry Gibault, Stanislas Nordey, Pauline Panassenko, Jean-Yves Ruf
One only has to pronounce his name to detect defiance in the demeanor of one’s interlocutor or, inversely, see their eyes light up in anticipation. His films are the cinematic equivalent of de Vinci’s paintings or Bach’s sonatas, both of […]
How are you ?
- By
- Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Direction
- Daniel Benoin
- Performed by
- Pierre Cassignard, François Marthouret, Éric Prat
Jean-Claude Grumberg is a linguistic genius who has mastered the art of using words and formulas effectively, and he possesses a sharp sense of what does or does not make sense. How are you is presented as a kind of […]
I haven’t begun to live yet
- Direction
- Tatiana Frolova / Théâtre KnAM
- Performed by
- Dmitrii Bocharov, Vladimir Dmitriev, Tatiana Frolova, Germain Iakovenko, Ludmila Smirnova
1991 saw the collapse of the Soviet Union, but just before disappearing it gave birth to its last generation amidst the ruins of an immense dream. These children of the Nineties became a generation ‘in limbo’ which had learned how […]
Body Revolution & Waiting
- By
- Mokhallad Rasem
- Performed by
- Body Revolution : (Mostafa Benkerroum, Ehsan Hemat, Lore Uyttendaele) / Waiting : (Ehsan Hemat, Lore Uyttendaele, Jessa Wildemeersch)
Two performances which analyse the force of images in warfare and capture the mood of a people who have been ravaged by violence but still need poetry. Mokhallad Rasem begins with the human body. How does it react to images […]
The mission (Souvenir d’une révolution)
- By
- Heiner Müller
- Direction
- Matthias Langhoff
- Performed by
- Javier Amblo, Susy Arduz Rojas, Fernando Azoge, Selma Baldiviezo Cassis, Alana Delgadillo, Jessie Gutierrez, Óscar Leaño, Antonio Peredo Gonzales, Marcela Mendez, Marcelo Sosa, Gabriela Tapia (membres d’Amassunu, troupe permanente de l’École nationale de théâtre Santa Cruz de la Sierra – Bolivie)
Matthias Langhoff is one of the living legends of world theatre whose work plunges into the heart of the issues he addresses. The Mission recounts the story of three emissaries who, during the later years of the French Revolution, travel […]
Eva Perón & the homosexual
- By
- Copi
- Direction
- Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
- Performed by
- Carlos Defeo, Rodolfo De Souza, Hernàn Franco, Gustavo Liza, Juan Gil Navarro, Rosario Varela, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
Thirty years after his death, the Cervantes-Teatro Nacional Argentino has inducted Copi into the pantheon of 20th century Argentinian dramaturgy with the presentation of two of his plays by Marcial Di Fonzo. Copi wrote Eva Perón in 1970 whilst in […]
The life I gave you
- By
- Luigi Pirandello
- Direction
- Jean Liermier
- Performed by
- Hélène Alexandridis, Viviana Aliberti, Michel Cassagne, Marie Fontannaz, Sara Louis, Clotilde Mollet, Elena Noverraz, Yann Pugin, Raphaël Vachoux
He reappears in the manner of a prodigal son after a long absence, his long-awaiting mother welcomes him back, yet despite his absence he had never really left. Refusing to accept the reality of the death of her son soon […]
Love and forests
- By
- Éric Reinhardt
- Direction
- Laurent Bazin
- Performed by
- Julia Faure, Fabien Joubert, Chloé Sourbet, Céline Toutain et les voix et l'image d'Isabelle Adjani
With its lyricism and the aesthetics of beauty Eric Reinhardt’s Love and Forests is a sensitive voyage to the heart of a damaged human spirit. A woman in the throes of conjugal hell confides her feelings to a writer she […]
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
- By
- Jules Verne
- Direction
- Christian Hecq et Valérie Lesort
- Performed by
- la troupe de la Comédie-Française : Laurent Natrella, Christian Gonon, Christian Hecq, Nicolas Lormeau, Noam Morgensztern et Thomas Guerry et la voix de Cécile Brune
Prepare yourself to board the Nautilus, the legendary vessel commanded by the no less legendary Captain Nemo! Christian Hecq, from the Comédie-Française, has entered the world of marionettes, most notably with the assistance of Phillippe Genty and Mary Underwood as […]
Arturo Brachetti
- By
- Arturo Brachetti
- Performed by
- Arturo Brachetti
Easily recognizable because of his distinctive crest of hair, the world’s greatest transformist actor is back with a new one-man show. Thanks to his technical virtuosity and music hall background this master of Italian metamorphosis breathes some of the magic […]
Ramona
- By
- Rezo Gabriadze
- Performed by
- les marionnettistes Tamar Amirajibi, Anna Nijaradze, Nino Sajaia, Giorgi Giorgobiani, Irakli Sharashidze, Niko Gelovani
This tragic tale and improbable plot tells the story of an impossible love affair in a railway station in the URSS involving a small and tender-hearted locomotive called Ramona and a robustly solid locomotive called Ermon, who are often destined […]
Marshall de phantie’s diamond
- By
- Rezo Gabriadze
- Performed by
- les marionnettistes Tamar Amirajibi, Anna Nijaradze, Nino Sajaia, Giorgi Giorgobiani, Irakli Sharashidze, Niko Gelovani, Badri Gvazava
Straight out of the mythic lair of the master of marionettes from Tbilisi in Georgia, this little jewel of theatre is a dramatic comedy about a little-known story – that of the ancient and extraordinary fraternal history of France and […]
Flight a play in eight dreams
- By
- Mikhaïl Boulgakov
- Direction
- Macha Makeïeff
- Performed by
- Pascal Rénéric, Vanessa Fonte, Vincent Winterhalter, Thomas Morris, Geoffroy Rondeau, Alain Fromager, Pierre Hancisse, Sylvain Levitte, Samuel Glaumé, Karyll Elgrichi, Emilie Pictet… et une petite fille (en alternance Sarina Dian Siriczman, Tess Genre, Salomé Narboni)
Boulgakov, a master of comedy and the art of the fantastic, presents Flight: a play in eight dreams, a mystical, deep, drole and hallucinatory stage play. This is a frenetic piece of vaudeville about defeat and exile during the madness […]
Cooking with Elvis
- By
- Lee Hall
- Direction
- Pierre Maillet
- Performed by
- Cécile Bournay, Matthieu Cruciani, Pierre Maillet, Anne-Élodie Sorlin
Pierre Maillet describes this play by Lee Hall as a dramatic comedy with musical intervals and tragic-comic cabaret. The story is seen through the eyes of a teenage lover of cupcakes, and it tells the tale of a family on […]
Margot
- By
- Christopher Marlowe
- Direction
- Laurent Brethome
- Performed by
- Fabien Albanese, Florian Bardet, Heidi Becker-Babel, Maxence Bod, Vincent Bouyé, Dominique Delavigne, Leslie Granger, Antoine Herniotte, François Jaulin, Thierry Jolivet, Julien Kosellek, Clémence Labatut, Denis Lejeune, Nicolas Mollard, Savannah Rol et Philippe Sire
What are the origins of barbarity and how does it manifest itself? Those are the questions that Laurent Brethome looks into with his version of The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe. This play recounts the engaged and critical regard […]
Novecento
- By
- Alessandro Baricco
- Direction
- André Dussollier
- Performed by
- André Dussollier et les musiciens Michel Bocchi, Olivier Andrès, Elio Di Tanna, Sylvain Gontard
With André Dussollier and the musicians Michel Bocchi, Olivier Andrès, Elio Di Tanna, Sylvain Gontard An abandoned baby in the banquet room of a cruise liner in 1920 is found and temporarily adopted by one of the ship’s engineers. The […]
A eulogy for the night
- By
- Ingrid Astier
- Direction
- Gérald Garutti
- Performed by
- Pierre Richard
The night has its own mood, that of confidences. A eulogy for the Night by Ingrid Astier is the story of a dream, a narrow escape and an ode for the beauty of our nocturnal lives. Gérard Garutti seizes this […]
The rivers and the forests
- By
- Marguerite Duras
- Direction
- Michel Didym
- Performed by
- Brigitte Catillon (en alternance avec Anne Benoît), Catherine Matisse, Charlie Nelson et le chien Zigou
Marguerite is having fun. Willingly facetious, she likes to turn up where she is not expected, and humour is arguably the most original and unrecognised aspect of Durassian dramaturgy. A rather vulgar man is bitten by a dog that can […]
The search
- By
- Alexandra Badea
- Direction
- Anne Théron
- Performed by
- les actrices Liza Blanchard, Judith Henry, Nathalie Richard, Maryvonne Schiltz et les acteurs des films Yannick Choirat, Alex Descas, Wajdi Mouawad, Laurent Poitrenaux
Alexandra Badea presents a hard-hitting work that explores a favourite theme of crime thrillers. This is the story of a woman who is trying to find another woman without knowing why, or even if she is still alive. Clara is […]
Actress
- Direction
- Pascal Rambert
- Performed by
- Marina Hands, Audrey Bonnet et Elmer Bäck, Luc Bataïni, Emmanuel Cuchet, Jean Guizerix, Yuming Hey, Lyna Khoudri, Ruth Nüesch, Jakob Öhrman, Rasmus Slätis, Laetitia Somé, Hélène Thil et deux enfants Anas Abidar en alternance avec Nathan Aznar
Nobody can doubt the extent of Pascal Rambert’s passion for actresses, and since the success of Clôture de l’amour he has revealed his talent for contrasting physical movement and words on stage. He displays his talent here in the context […]
George Dandin or the chastened husband
- By
- Molière
- Direction
- Jean-Pierre Vincent
- Performed by
- Olivia Chatain*, Gabriel Durif, Aurélie Édeline*, Vincent Garanger*, Iannis Haillet, Élizabeth Mazev, Anthony Poupard*, Alain Rimoux *Troupe permanente du Préau
A rich farmer who emerges from the shadows of the simple lifestyle that has obscured his personality for too long, George Dandin wants to “change his name, become somebody else, become someone, with the result being that he becomes even […]
Loveless
- By
- Claude Jaget
- Direction
- Anne Buffet, Yann Dacosta
- Performed by
- Anne Buffet, Jade Collinet, Rébecca Chaillon, Julien Cussonneau, Marie Petiot, Susanne Schmidt
With Anne Buffet, Jade Collinet, Rébecca Chaillon, Julien Cussonneau, Marie Petiot, Susanne Schmidt This story was constructed around the testimonies of prostitutes during their occupation in 1975 of the church of Saint-Nizier, Lyon. Their occupation represented the first attempt by […]
Sadnesses
- By
- Anne-Cécile Vandalem / Das Fräulein (Kompanie)
- Performed by
- Vincent Cahay, Anne-Pascale Clairembourg, Épona Guillaume, Séléné Guillaume en alternance avec Asia Amans, Pierre Kissling, Vincent Lécuyer, Catherine Mestoussis en alternance avec Zoé Kovacs, Jean-Benoit Ugeux, Anne-Cécile Vandalem en alternance avec Florence Janas, Françoise Vanhecke et Alexandre Von Sivers
Sadnesses recounts the rise of the extreme right movement in Denmark and the moment which saw its leader mourning the death of his mother, who had hanged herself with the national flag. Anne-Cécile Vandalem presents her striking film images and […]
The quat’sous dialect
- By
- Annie Ernaux
- Direction
- Laurence Cordier
- Performed by
- Delphine Cogniard, Aline Le Berre, Laurence Roy
Torn between the values of her modest origins and those of the intellectual milieu to which she wishes to belong, Denise, a brilliant student who finds herself confronted with the brutal realities of clandestine abortion, leads us into the sensual […]
Bluebird
- By
- Simon Stephens
- Direction
- Claire Devers
- Performed by
- Philippe Torreton, Baptiste Dezerces, Serge Larivière, Marion Malenfant, Julie-Anne Roth
There are certain actors whose exceptional talent demands that they be given exceptional roles which reflect their abilities, and that is why Claire Devers cast Grégory Gadebois in the role of Jimmy, a taxi driver. In the time it takes […]
The faraway country
- By
- Jean-Luc Lagarce
- Direction
- Clément Hervieu-Léger
- Performed by
- Aymeline Alix, Louis Berthélémy, Audrey Bonnet, Clémence Boué, Loïc Corbery de la Comédie-Française, Vincent Dissez, François Nambot, Guillaume Ravoire, Daniel San Pedro, Nada Strancar, Stanley Weber
This is the story of last remaining fragments of the life of Louis which takes place in the presence of those who are now reaching the very end of their own lives and approaching the temporal meeting point between life […]
Professor Bernhardi
- By
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Direction
- Thomas Ostermeier
- Performed by
- Damir Avdic, Veronika Bachfischer, Thomas Bading, Robert Beyer, Johannes Flaschberger, Christoph Gawenda, Moritz Gottwald, Jorg Hartmann, Laurenz Laufenberg, Eva Meckbach, David Ruland, Sebastian Schwarz, Konrad Singer, Lukas Turtur
Professor Bernhardi, a doctor and the director of a renowned clinic, stops a priest from giving the last rites to a dying young woman who, in her delirious state, believes she has been cured of her illness, and because he […]
Lecture publique - Comité de lecture lycéen 15e édition
- Performed by
- des élèves des collèges Ampère, Dargent, Clément Marot et des lycées Ampère, Saint-Exupéry, La Martinière Montplaisir, Édouard Herriot, Saint-Just, La Trinité et Deborde
Trintignant Mille Piazzolla
- By
- Jules Laforgue, Allain Leprest, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian, Gaston Miron, Robert Desnos...
- Direction
- Alexandre Vernerey
- Performed by
- Jean-Louis Trintignant et les musiciens Daniel Mille, Grégoire Korniluk, Paul Colomb, Frédéric Deville (en alternance avec Jérôme Huille), Diego Imbert
Characterised by an instantly recognisable voice, the tango consisting of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Daniel Mille has enchanted audiences for over ten years. Here, the actor inserts his libertarian poetry into powerful yet delicate orchestral arrangements by the accordionist in Astor […]
Botala Mindele
- By
- Rémi De Vos
- Direction
- Frédéric Dussenne
- Performed by
- Priscilla Adade, Valérie Bauchau, Stéphane Bissot, Ansou Diedhiou, Philippe Jeusette, Benoit Van Dorslaer et Jérémie Zagba
Ruben and Mathilda have invited Daniel and his wife to dinner. Daniel has a business project involving the Congolese authorities, and he needs Ruben’s help in contacting the relevant minister. But that same evening the minister informs Ruben that the […]
Soirée d'ouverture
- Performed by
- Olivier Debelhoir, Ludor Citrik, Jean-Paul Lefeuvre, Proserpine, Samuel Achache, Mathurin Bolze, Vincent Segal et Lionel Suarez
Le pas grand chose
- By
- Johann Le Guillerm / Cirque ici
- Performed by
- Johann Le Guillerm
Ouïe
- By
- Ludor Citrik et Le Pollu
- Performed by
- Cédric Paga, Camille Perrin
Un soir chez Boris
- By
- Olivier Debelhoir
- Performed by
- Olivier Debelhoir
Ningunapalabra
- By
- Josefina Castro et Daniel Ortiz
- Performed by
- Josefina Castro et Daniel Ortiz
Santa Madera
- By
- Juan Ignacio Tula et Stefan Kinsman - Cie MPTA
- Performed by
- Juan Ignacio Tula, Stefan Kinsman et une roue Cyr
Les Limbes
- By
- Étienne Saglio - Cie Monstre(s)
- Performed by
- Étienne Saglio
Pulse… Pulsemoi… Pulsature… Saturemoi
- Direction
- Isabelle Laroy et Johan Lescop
- Performed by
- Arthur Amouroux, Bernadette Favre, Juri Bisegna, Patricia Minder, Ricardo Mendes et Xavier Mermod
The Celebration
- By
- Thomas Vinterberg / Mogens Rukov
- Direction
- Cyril Teste, Collectif MxM
- Performed by
- Estelle André, Vincent Berger, Hervé Blanc, Sandy Boizard ou Marion Pellissier, Sophie Cattani, Bénédicte Guilbert, Mathias Labelle, Danièle Léon, Xavier Maly, Lou Martin-Fernet, Ludovic Molière, Catherine Morlot, Anthony Paliotti, Pierre Timaitre, Gérald Weingand et la participation de Laureline Le Bris-Cep
The Celebration incarnates the style of the cult films of the Danish New Wave. In this piece the whole family is invited to the father’s 60th birthday party, and during the meal Christian begins to unearth hitherto hidden secrets. When […]