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François Truffaut

Direction

Dorian Rossel

Performed by

Sophie Broustal, Fabien Coquil, Antoine Courvoisier, Mathieu Delmonté, Thomas Diébold, Érik Gerken, Leslie Granger, Delphine Lanza, Cloé Lastère, Bérangère Mastrangelo, Pauline Parigot, Julie-Kazuko Rahir, Aurélia Thierrée

Swiss director Dorian Rossel is adapting François Truffaut’s ten-César-winning film. An ode to freedom and creativity. Keeping art alive despite the war and using poetry as a means of escaping a world in ruins. This is the objective of Dernier […]

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Molière

Direction

Denis Podalydès

Performed by

la troupe de la Comédie-Française (Bakary Sangaré, Gilles David, Benjamin Lavernhe, Didier Sandre, Pauline Clément, Jean Chevalier, Élise Lhomeau, Birane Ba et Maïka Louakairim, Aude Rouanet)

Denis Podalydès embarks the company from the Comédie-Française in a playful adaptation Les Fourberies de Scapin. The port of Naples is awash with sails, masts, ladders, blocks of wood, and suspended fishing nets… For his Scapin the Schemer, Denis Podalydès […]

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David Lindsay-Abaire

Direction

Claudia Stavisky

Performed by

Julie Gayet, Patrick Catalifo, Christiane Cohendy, Lolita Chammah et Renan Prévot

This was a great success for us last season. A creation rich in subtlety and feeling for which Claudia Stavisky has put together a truly brilliant cast: Julie Gayet, Patrick Catalifo, Lolita Chammah, Christiane Cohendy and Renan Prévot. How can […]

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Jean Cocteau et Falk Richter

Direction

Roland Auzet

Performed by

Irène Jacob

Under the direction of composer and producer Roland Auzet, Irène Jacob treats us to a quite extraordinary theatrical performance. In The Human Voice, Jean Cocteau reveals the loneliness of a woman deserted by her lover, who calls him on the […]

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Emma Dante

Performed by

Sandro Maria Campagna, Viola Carinci, Italia Carroccio, Davide Celona, Sabino Civilleri, Roberto Galbo, Carmine Maringola, Ivano Picciallo, Leonarda Saffi, Daniele Savarino, Stéphanie Taillandier, Emilia Verginelli, Marta zollet et avec Daniela Macaluso et Gabriele Gugliara

For the first time at Les Célestins, celebrated Italian director Emma Dante strips our humanity bare. Fourteen actors. Seven women and seven men on an empty stage: no script, no characters, no set, no costumes, no music…just the actors-dancers who […]

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Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman

Direction

Toni Servillo

Performed by

Toni Servillo, Petra Valentini, Francesco Marino, Davide Cirri

Great Italian actor Toni Servillo breathes new life into Louis Jouvet’s drama classes. A celebration of the theatre as an antidote to the brutality of History. A small table, a few chairs, a dais: in this atmosphere of utmost austerity, […]

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Michel Laubu, Émili Hufnagel / Turak Théâtre

Performed by

Charly Frénéa, Simon Giroud, Émili Hufnagel, Michel Laubu, Patrick Murys, Fred Soria

His world of cobbled-together poetry fascinates children and adults alike. Half-way between the theatre of objects and puppetry, Turak Theatre carries us away on the whim of a memory. But who is Monsieur Tokbar – this funny character who travels […]

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Tatiana Frolova / Théâtre KnAM

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Dmitrii Bocharov, Vladimir Dmitriev, Tatiana Frolova, German Iakovenko, Ludmila Smirnova

This was one of the high points of the Sens Interdits Festival in 2017. Tatiana Frolova is back, mingling the personal with the historical in an uncompromising portrait of today’s Russia. Over 7,000 miles separate Lyon from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. It was […]

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Kate Tempest

Direction

Gabriel Dufay

Performed by

Clément Bresson, Gabriel Dufay, Claire Sermonne

At the point where theatre, cinema, dance, and urban music converge, Fracassés paints a portrait of a generation via three modern characters in search of meaning. Ted, a low-ranking functionary, is a prisoner of the monotony of his office job. […]

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Anne-Cécile Vandalem / Das Fräulein (Kompanie)

Performed by

Frédéric Dailly, Guy Dermul, Éric Drabs, Véronique Dumont, Philippe Grand'Henry, Épona Guillaume, Zoé Kovacs, Gianni Manente, Jean-Benoit Ugeux en alternance avec Antoine Herniotte, Mélanie Zucconi

Anne-Cécile Vandalem creates an astonishing seafaring tale: a cross between psychological thriller and surrealist comedy. “Those who are familiar with my work know how I love to combine genres to create new ones”, reveals Anne-Cécile Vandalem. Surrealist comedy, futuristic tale, […]

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Julie Berès

Performed by

Laurent Cazanave, Valentine Alaqui, Kyrie Kristmanson, Mia Delmaë, Mélanie Couillaud

How can we talk about the environment, about nature, without falling prey to a form of paralysing defeatism? Julie Berès has created a theatrical tale which examines our relationship with nature. Can we change our view of nature, to see […]

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Alexandre Dumas fils

Direction

Arthur Nauzyciel

Performed by

Pierre Baux, Océane Caïraty, Pascal Cervo, Guillaume Costanza, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Mounir Margoum, Joana Preiss, Hedi Zada

They are one of our literary pantheon’s most famous couples. Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval experience love and suffering in Arthur Nauzyciel’s play. Alexandre Dumas took inspiration from his own life to write The Lady with the Camellias in 1848 […]

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Harold Pinter

Direction

Ludovic Lagarde

Performed by

Mathieu Amalric, Valérie Dashwood, Micha Lescot, Laurent Poitrenaux

One woman, three men: numerous possibilities. Ludovic Lagarde explores the enigmatic world of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature winner. In the world of British dramatist Harold Pinter (1930-2008), nothing is ever as it seems at first glance. Reality is […]

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Stanislas Rodanski

Direction

Georges Lavaudant

Performed by

Frédéric Borie, Élodie Buisson, Clovis Fouin Agoutin, Frédéric Roudier, Thomas Trigeaud

Between mystery and illumination, Georges Lavaudant takes us on a voyage into the captivating world of surrealist poet Stanislas Rodanski, A man with a hypnotic presence, a woman-chimera who could have stepped out of an Alfred Hitchcock film, the enigma […]

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Sénèque

Direction

Thomas Jolly

Performed by

Damien Avice, Éric Challier, Emeline Frémont, Thomas Jolly, Annie Mercier, Charline Porrone, Lamya Regragui et Nils Guillaume, Camille Messineo, Piel Niwa, Julien Peinado les deux enfants de Thyeste (en alternance)

The last time we saw him was three years ago, in an explosive Richard III. Thomas Jolly continues his exploration of the monstrous with Seneca’s Thyestes. This is one of the ten tragedies Seneca wrote, which has travelled through the […]

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Cédric Roulliat / Compagnie de Onze à Trois heures

Performed by

David Bescond, Sahra Daugreilh, Laure Giappiconi

Lyon-based photographer Cédric Roulliat presents his first creation for theatre: a kitsch, pop-culture glimpse into the fantasy world of a comic-strip superheroine. Lyon. The beginning of the 1980s. Edwige, a young translator, grew up dreaming of super-heroines in American comics […]

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Fabrice Melquiot

Direction

Arnaud Meunier

Performed by

Rachida Brakni, Philippe Torreton, Maurin Ollès, Vincent Garanger, Frederico Semedo, Bénédicte Mbemba, Riad Gahmi, Nathalie Matter

For his newest creation, Arnaud Meunier brings Rachida Brakni and Philippe Torreton together on stage. A comic and desperate epic loosely based on Virgil’s Aeneid Legend has it that Aeneas fled the ruined city of Troy, carrying his blinded and […]

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John Cassavetes

Direction

Cyril Teste

Performed by

Isabelle Adjani, Morgan Lloyd Sicard, Frédéric Pierrot et la participation de Zoé Adjani

This is one of the big events of the season: an open road between theatre and cinema, starring an exceptional actor. Opening Night is mostly known for the film adaptation by John Cassavetes in 1977 starring Gena Rowlands. What is […]

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Ioana Pǎun

Performed by

Costi Apostol, Alexandrina Ioana Costea, Sebastian Marina, Fatma Mohamed, Elena Popa, Paula Rotar et Abdel Fatahou

At the point of convergence between drama, social sciences and new technology, young Romanian director Ioana Pǎun explores our connection with reality and the notion of identity. We are as close as possible to the actors, on both sides of […]

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Gianina Cărbunariu

Performed by

Ruxandra Maniu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Potocean, Gabriel Răuță, Bogdan Zamfir

She is one of the top names in Romanian theatre. Gianina Cărbunariu presents Artists Talk: a critique, dripping with irony, of artists and their level of commitment in the modern world. In 2014, at the Avignon Festival, Gianina Cărbunariu explored […]

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Thomas Bernhard

Direction

Christophe Perton

Performed by

André Marcon, Manuela Beltran, Éric Caruso, Barbara Creutz, Agathe L’Huillier, Jules Pélissier

Completely hopeless, wonderfully sarcastic, the great Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard takes a vitriolic look at our petty, tragicomic lives. He talks in digressions, he never stops pontificating. He holds forth on life, on art – as well as on the […]

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Pierre Corneille

Direction

Claudia Stavisky

Performed by

Camille Bernon, Julien Lopez, Loïc Mobihan, Bertrand Poncet, Renan Prévot, Roxanne Roux

To the lively and irreverential tune of Tu veux ou tu veux pas, Claudia Stavisky makes the lovers’ breath in Corneille’s piece come in gasps. In the 17th century, Place Royale in Paris was the name given to what is […]

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Collectif Marthe / Clara Bonnet, Marie-Ange Gagnaux, Aurélia Lüscher, Itto Mehdaoui

Performed by

Clara Bonnet, Marie-Ange Gagnaux, Aurélia Lüscher, Itto Mehdaoui

Four young actors take a fresh look at the myth surrounding witches. A caustic play which lays bare the historical mechanisms of female persecution. Over the centuries, we have portrayed them as poisoners, penis thieves, embryo devourers, lustful old women […]

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Marcia Barcellos, Karl Biscuit / Système Castafiore

Performed by

les danseurs Tuomas Lahti, Tom Lévy-Chaudet, Lucille Mansas, Daphné Mauger, Sara Pasquier

Choreographed scenes, sound installations, visual compositions… The Système Castafiore company explores the phantasmagoria of our dreams in a completely immersive experience. Marcia Barcellos and Karl Biscuit founded the Système Castafiore company in 1990, focusing on setting the creative forces of […]

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