Trois notes pour un cerveau
- By
- Pauline Hercule, Pierre Germain - Compagnie Germ36
- Performed by
- Emmanuel Bigand, Marguerite Dehors, Quentin Gibelin, Pauline Hercule
How does music move us? How does it accompany us throughout our lives? Making and listening to music helps us grow and evolve. Making and listening to music can help us overcome the trials of life. Making and listening to […]
La Trilogie de la villégiature
- By
- Carlo Goldoni
- Direction
- Claudia Stavisky
- Performed by
- Frédéric Borie, Éric Caruso, Pauline Cheviller, Maxime Coggio, Christiane Cohendy, Anne de Boissy, Benjamin Jungers, Lise Lomi, Daniel Martin, Marin Moreau, Bruno Raffaelli, Julie Recoing, Savannah Rol
A large-scale group performance that transforms the stage into a feast for the senses and the mind. They don’t have the money, but they want to live like Aristocrats. To this end, Filippo, Giacinta, Leonardo, and Vittoria and their two […]
Vers le spectre
- By
- Maurin Ollès
- Performed by
- Clara Bonnet, Gaspard Liberelle, Gaël Sall, Bedis Tir, Nina Villanova
The life of an extraordinary boy, from childhood to adulthood. Adel is autistic. People say he is cold, different, violent, solitary. According to the professionals he is somewhere on the infinitely wide spectrum of disorders and diagnoses. In his orbit […]
The Brothers Karamazov
- By
- Fédor Dostoïevski
- Direction
- Sylvain Creuzevault
- Performed by
- Sylvain Creuzevault, Servane Ducorps, Vladislav Galard, Arthur Igual, Sava Lolov, Frédéric Noaille, Patrick Pineau, Blanche Ripoche, Sylvain Sounier et les musiciens Sylvaine Hélary, Antonin Rayon
Sylvain Creuzevault tackles Dostoevski’s final novel with a multi-directional paper chase between farce and scandal. This is a monumental book. A masterpiece of literary history, a melting pot of the entire gamut of humanity which takes us to the very […]
Surexpositions
- By
- Marion Aubert
- Direction
- Julien Rocha
- Performed by
- Margaux Desailly, Fabrice Gaillard, Johanna Nizard, Cédric Veschambre
Marion Aubert and Julien Rocha observe Patrick Dewaere through his filmography, retracing the steps of a man who is constantly moving, searching, resisting. When we think of the actor Patrick Dewaere, we think of his incredible sensitivity, his sincerity, and […]
Dans la mesure de l'impossible
- By
- Tiago Rodrigues
- Performed by
- Adrien Barazzone, Beatriz Brás, Baptiste Coustenoble, Natacha Koutchoumov, Gabriel Ferrandini (musicien)
Between poetry, intimacy, and geopolitics, this performance is a view of the world seen through the eyes of the women and men who are committed to humanitarian causes. From the beginning, Tiago Rodrigues has always seen the stage as a […]
The waacking leads the dance !
- Performed by
- Princess Madoki, Lynn Diva, Paul de Saint-Paul
After putting krump centre stage for its 15th anniversary, Karavel is taking over the Célestins theatre once again for an exceptional event dedicated to waacking. Created in the clubs of Los Angeles in the 1970s by the African and Latin […]
Koulounisation
- By
- Salim Djaferi
- Performed by
- Salim Djaferi
Like some bizarre conference speaker, Salim Djaferi decodes the language of colonisation. Born to Algerian immigrant parents, in 2018 Salim Djaferi travelled to Algiers to learn about the colonisation of Algeria for himself. On this trip, while searching in vain […]
Marguerite, l'enchantement
- By
- Jeanne Garraud
- Performed by
- Lucile Marianne, Savannah Rol, Thomas Rortais, Arthur Vandepoel
A bittersweet comedy about parenthood. When a child is born, the baby’s needs and the mental upheaval it causes turn young parents’ lives upside down. This little-known, even taboo time in people’s lives is the subject of Marguerite, l’enchantement, a […]
Un mois à la campagne
- By
- Ivan Tourgueniev
- Direction
- Clément Hervieu-Léger
- Performed by
- Louis Berthélémy, Clémence Boué, Jean-Noël Brouté, Isabelle Gardien, Juliette Léger, Guillaume Ravoire, Stéphane Facco, Daniel San Pedro, Mireille Roussel, et en alternance Lucas Ponton et Martin Verhoeven
When a breath of unexpected passion reveals people’s true nature, their urges, their contradictions, their emotions… Natalia, numbed by the daily grind of a life weighed down by social convention, is jerked back to life the day she meets Alexei, […]
Illusions perdues
- By
- Honoré de Balzac
- Direction
- Pauline Bayle
- Performed by
- Manon Chircen, Anissa Daaou, Zoé Fauconnet, Frédéric Lapinsonnière, Adrien Rouyard et la participation de Najda Bourgeois en alternance avec Pauline Bayle
The rise and fall of a young writer hungry for success: up close and personal with Balzac’s characters. From hope to resignation, from dreams of power to the harsh light of reality, Illusions perdues holds an all-seeing mirror up to […]
La Fin du début (Seras-tu là ?)
- By
- Solal Bouloudnine, Maxime Mikolajczak avec la collaboration d’Olivier Veillon
- Direction
- Maxime Mikolajczak, Olivier Veillon
- Performed by
- Solal Bouloudnine
Alone on stage, Solal Bouloudnine exorcises his existential demons through laughter. Solal Bouloudnine was six years old when Michel Berger died of a heart attack on the 2nd of August 1992 after a tennis match. He used to spend his […]
Tropique de la violence
- By
- Nathacha Appanah
- Direction
- Alexandre Zeff
- Performed by
- Damien Barcelona, Mia Delmaë, Thomas Durand, Mexianu Medenou, Alexis Tieno, Assane Timbo
A dizzying thriller from the depths of a shanty town in Mayotte. This novel by Nathacha Appanah was released in 2016, and won no fewer than fifteen literary awards. Tropique de la violence certainly has everything to get the pulse […]
Le feu, la fumée, le soufre
- According to
- "Édouard II" de Christopher Marlowe
- Direction
- Bruno Geslin
- Performed by
- Jacques Allaire, Clément Bertani, Hugo Lecuit, Lionel Codino, Claude Degliame, Julien Ferranti en alternance avec Rodrigo Ferreira, Arnaud Gélis, Guilhem Logerot, Olivier Normand, Luc Tremblais, Alyzée Soudet
The tragic fate of a king who refuses to choose between the throne of England and his love for his sweetheart. Fire. Smoke. Brimstone. This adaptation of Edward II is all excess, mysterious chiaroscuro, and intense lyricism. The tragedy by […]
Le contraire de l'amour
- By
- Mouloud Feraoun ("Journal, 1955-1962". Collection Points)
- Direction
- Dominique Lurcel
- Performed by
- Samuel Churin (jeu), Marc Lauras (jeu et violoncelle)
On the 60th anniversary of Algerian independence, this is a priceless account, one to break the silence and shine a much-needed spotlight on past events. Assassinated by the OAS on the 15th of March 1962 in Algiers, four days before […]
Pueblo
- By
- Ascanio Celestini
- Performed by
- David Murgia, Philippe Orivel
Storyteller Ascanio Celestini and actor David Murgia are resurrecting the voiceless and the outcast. Here he is again at his window, watching the world go by and creating poetry out of everyday life. David Murgia once more applies his talents […]
DUO Pueblo + Laïka
- By
- Ascanio Celestini
Storyteller Ascanio Celestini and actor David Murgia are resurrecting the voiceless and the outcast. Attend the 2 shows at specific prices. You can choose different dates or chain them on the same evening. Pueblo From 6 to 17 déc. at […]
Laïka
- By
- Ascanio Celestini
- Performed by
- David Murgia, Maurice Blanchy
Storyteller Ascanio Celestini and actor David Murgia are resurrecting the voiceless and the outcast. In an anonymous suburb, an unlikely Messiah comes back to earth to cast an eye over 21st century humanity. He focuses his attention on the unseen […]
Arlequin poli par l'amour
- By
- Marivaux
- Direction
- Thomas Jolly
- Performed by
- Romain Brosseau, Rémi Dessenoix, Charlotte Ravinet, Clémence Solignac, Romain Tamisier, Ophélie Trichard
A sparkling adaptation of this piece by Marivaux which shines with love’s youthful desire. Born out of the meeting between Marivaux and the actors of the Comédie-Italienne in 1720, Arlequin poli par l’amour conjures up the fervour of youth with […]
Much ado about nothing
- By
- William Shakespeare
- Direction
- Maïa Sandoz, Paul Moulin
- Performed by
- Serge Biavan, Maxime Coggio, Christophe Danvin en alternance avec Balthazar Monge, Mathilde-Édith Mennetrier en alternance avec Elsa Verdon, Gilles Nicolas, Paul Moulin, Soulaymane Rkiba, Aurélie Vérillon, Mélissa Zehner
All the vitality, expansive humour, and wild sensuality of a Shakespeare play. This is one of William Shakespeare’s most well-known comedies. A subversive play where love’s desire and bitterness are close allies. Much ado about nothing, a piece about subterfuge, […]
Gretel, Hansel, and the others
- Direction
- Igor Mendjisky
- Performed by
- Igor Mendjisky, Esther Van Den Driessche, Sylvain Debry
Igor Mendjisky brings the Brothers Grimm tale into the present day, celebrating children’s capacity for astonishment. For a special Christmas show, Igor Mendjisky takes on Hansel and Gretel. Somewhere between dreams and reality, this family show brings to life the […]
Petit pays
- By
- Gaël Faye
- Direction
- Frédéric R. Fisbach
- Performed by
- Lorry Hardel, Marie Payen, Nelson Rafaell Madel, Ibrahima Bah, Nawoile Said Moulidi et Anaïs Gournay
The questions posed by Gaby, a ten-year-old child, when faced with the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Petit pays takes us to Bujumbura, the economic capital of Burundi. This is the home of Gabriel – child of a Rwandan […]
Un
- According to
- "Le Roman d’un être" de Bernard Noël
- Direction
- Frédéric Leidgens
- Performed by
- Sophie Robin, Frédéric Leidgens
Roman Opalka and Bernard Noël: interviews with a poet and a writer. In 2012, after writing several books about fine artists, Bernard Noël published Le Roman d’un être, a series of eleven conversations held with Roman Opalka between April 1985 […]
Colours of the Air
- By
- Igor Mendjisky
- Performed by
- Raphaèle Bouchard, Pierre Hiessler, Guillaume Marquet, Igor Mendjisky, Hortense Monsaingeon, Juliette Poissonnier, Esther Van Den Driessche, Jean-Paul Wenzel, Yuriy Zavalnyouk
A lively exploration of creation, emancipation, lies, and heritage… 35-year-old filmmaker Ilia loses his father, a world-famous painter, compulsive liar, and megalomaniac. Two years after his death, the young man throws himself into creating a big-budget biopic on the story […]
Coyote
- By
- Patrice Thibaud
- Performed by
- Jean-Luc Debattice, Philippe Leygnac, Patrice Thibaud et la petite Boston Terrier Zia
Inspired by the sacred clowns of the Hopis tribe, this sensorial adventure uses passion and humour to impart the ecological wisdom of the Native American people. It was 1992. For six weeks, Patrice Thibaud lived among the Apaches, the Navahos, […]
Iphigenia
- By
- Tiago Rodrigues
- Direction
- Anne Théron
- Performed by
- Carolina Amaral, Fanny Avram, João Cravo Cardoso, Alex Descas, Vincent Dissez, Mireille Herbstmeyer, Julie Moreau, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Richard Sammut
A decidedly contemporary performance that transforms the tragedy’s characters into people who are masters of their own fate. A bare stage, slightly curved in the middle. The vast expanse of a faraway sea lies still on film, as though stuck […]
Prives de feuilles les arbres ne bruissent pas
- By
- Magne van den Berg
- Direction
- Pascale Henry
- Performed by
- Valérie Bauchau, Marie-Sohna Condé
Two women sit in front of their caravan on two plastic garden chairs… One morning, two women, Dom and Gaby, are up and about in front of their caravan, a bit earlier than usual on this particular morning. They are […]
Nosztalgia express
- By
- Marc Lainé
- Performed by
- Alain Eloy, Émilie Franco, Gilles Geenen, Thomas Gonzalez, Léopoldine Hummel, François Praud, Olivier Werner
From Paris to Budapest, a cavalcade of humour and unexpected twists. On the eve of the 4th of November 1956, Soviet tanks enter Budapest to quash the Hungarian uprising. Across Europe, a whole section of left-leaning people become orphans of […]
Dark Was the Night
- By
- Emmanuel Meirieu
- Performed by
- Stéphane Balmino, François Cottrelle, Jean-Erns Marie-Louise, Nicolas Moumbounou, Patricia Pekmezian
Emmanuel Meirieu tells us the tale of a message sent by humans to alien civilisations. It was the 20th of August 1977. The space probe Voyager 2 was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral in Florida, a gold disc attached […]
Les Règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne preceded by Music Hall
- By
- Jean-Luc Lagarce
- Direction
- Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
- Performed by
- Catherine Hiegel, Raoul Fernandez, Pascal Ternisien
The daily life of a cabaret tour, etiquette in polite society: Catherine Hiegel flies the flag for Jean-Luc Lagarce’s chiaroscuro irony. Marcial Di Fonzo Bo described Catherine Hiegel as one of our greatest actresses. She was therefore first choice for […]
Sommeil sans rêve
- By
- Thierry Jolivet
- Performed by
- Florian Bardet, Laure Barida, Fanny Barthod, Marion Couzinié, Steven Fafournoux, Quentin Gibelin, François Jaulin, Julien Kosellek, Lilla Sárosdi, Paul Schirck, Laurent Ziserman
Using a combination of theatre and cinema, a company of ten actors explores our mortal plight. Thierry Jolivet has created an impressive spectacle for the Célestins this season. A choral, polyphonic show which brings together ten tales of life and […]
Black March
- By
- Claire Barrabès
- Direction
- Sylvie Orcier
- Performed by
- Pablo Elcoq, Aline Le Berre, Djibril Mbaye, Patrick Pineau, Lauren Pineau-Orcier, Eliott Pineau-Orcier
An ode to those who are damaged, rough, fragile, funny. “Black March is the place where Beethoven meets a zebra”, declares young actress Claire Barrabès mischievously, “the place where a great pianist can find himself face-to-face with a young mother, […]
L'Orage
- By
- Alexandre Ostrovski
- Direction
- Denis Podalydès
- Performed by
- Cécile Brune, Julien Campani, Philippe Duclos, Francis Leplay, Leslie Menu, Dominique Parent, Laurent Podalydès, Mélodie Richard, Nada Strancar, Geert van Herwijnen, Thibault Vinçon, Bernard Vallery
Denis Podalydès brings new depth to the tragi-comic humanity of Ostrovsky’s work. We find ourselves in Kalinov, a part of Russia which is a far cry from the artistic and intellectual buzz of Moscow. Conservatism reigns in this small village […]
La scortecata
- By
- Emma Dante
- Direction
- Emma Dante
- Performed by
- Salvatore D’Onofrio, Carmine Maringola
Two Neapolitan tales (Pupo di zucchero and La Scortecata) adapted by Emma Dante: one tangible, poetic, outlandish performance. Emma Dante presents a stage adaptation of The Two Old Women, a fable by Neapolitan poet Giambattista Basile (1566-1632) whose work provided […]
Pupo di zucchero
- By
- Emma Dante
- Performed by
- Tiebeu Marc-Henry Brissy Ghadout, Sandro Maria Campagna, Martina Caracappa, Federica Greco, Giuseppe Lino, Carmine Maringola, Valter Sarzi Sartori, Maria Sgro, Stéphanie Taillandier, Nancy Trabona
Two Neapolitan tales (Pupo di zucchero and La Scortecata) adapted by Emma Dante: one tangible, poetic, outlandish performance. An old man is alone at his home on the 2nd of November, the day of the dead. As is the custom […]
Dans ce jardin qu'on aimait
- According to
- le roman de Pascal Quignard
- Direction
- Marie Vialle
- Performed by
- Marie Vialle et Laurent Poitrenaux
The music of birdsong revealed by a father and daughter, characters from a novel by Pascal Quignard. An American pastor who was born in 1823 and died in 1890, Simeon Pease Cheney was one of the first people to make […]
Tout mon amour
- By
- Laurent Mauvignier
- Direction
- Arnaud Meunier
- Performed by
- Anne Brochet, Romain Fauroux*, Ambre Febvre*, Jean-François Lapalus, Philippe Torreton
A metaphysical crime thriller with Anne Brochet and Philippe Torreton playing a couple plunged into a mysterious reality… Laurent Mauvignier’s world is peopled with characters who are trying to heal their wounds. Characters who keep on going despite the obstacles […]
Combat de nègre et de chiens
- By
- Bernard-Marie Koltès
- Direction
- Mathieu Boisliveau
- Performed by
- Chloé Chevalier, Pierre-Stefan Montagnier, Denis Mpunga, Thibault Perrenoud
Four solitary lives collide, tearing each other apart in a far-flung corner of the world. It all begins with a lie, and ends with an act of vengeance. Over the course of one night, from dusk until dawn. In a […]
Girls and boys
- By
- Dennis Kelly
- Direction
- Chloé Dabert
- Performed by
- Bénédicte Cerutti
An explosive monologue from Dennis Kelly which begins as stand-up and ends in tragedy. This woman is certainly not like other women. You can tell straight away. Right next to us, almost among us, her eyes seek out our own. […]
The Cherry Orchard
- By
- Anton Tchekhov
- Direction
- tg STAN
- Performed by
- Evelien Bosmans, Evgenia Brendes, Robby Cleiren, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Lukas De Wolf, Bert Haelvoet, Minke Kruyver, Scarlet Tummers, Stijn Van Opstal, Geert Van Rampelberg
In their first performance at the Célestins, Belgian collective tg STAN brings a breath of freedom to Chekhov’s final piece. We come back to Chekhov’s plays time after time. To their impressionist shades. To their captivating equilibrium between naturalism and […]
Visions d'eskandar
- By
- Samuel Gallet
- Performed by
- Caroline Gonin, Mathieu Goulin, Lucie Gockel, Jean-Christophe Laurier, Pierre Morice
After the shock of an earthquake comes the urgency of renewal. The city of Eskandar has been destroyed by an earthquake. An imaginary city: a vision that we all secretly share, where our dreams meet reality, a symbol of a […]
A Bright Room Called Day
- By
- Tony Kushner
- Direction
- Catherine Marnas
- Performed by
- Simon Delgrange, Annabelle Garcia, Tonin Palazzotto, Julie Papin, Agnès Pontier, Sophie Richelieu, Gurshad Shaheman, Yacine Sif El Islam, Bénédicte Simon
A company of young actors brings the present-day face to face with the darkest hours of the past. Catherine Marnas commends the play: “At certain moments it is like Brecht rewritten by Tennessee Williams…”. An intensely political yet melancholic piece, […]