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Alexander Vantournhout

Performed by

Noémi Devaux, Axel Guérin, Patryk Klos, Nick Robaey, Josse Roger, Emmi Väisänen, Alexander Vantournhout, Esse Vanderbruggen

On stage, a huge wall rises up, drastically reducing the performance space. With acrobatic lifts, the eight actors in Foreshadow defy the laws of gravity, transforming this limitation into creative energy. From the United States/Mexico border to the frontier separating […]

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Cie Dans6T / Bouziane Bouteldja

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Mathilde Rispal, Alison Benezech, Zineb Boujema, Soufiane Faouzi Mrani, Redouane Nasry, Med Medelsi

Le festival Karavel offre une carte blanche au chorégraphe Bouziane Bouteldja avec Ruptures, une puissante pièce questionnant l’histoire des migrations. À la confluence des danses hip-hop et traditionnelles, la compagnie Dans6T évoque les horizons dessinés par les migrations. À travers […]

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Valérian Guillaume

Performed by

Jules Benveniste, Raphaëlle Damilano, Giulia Dussollier, Lucie Gallo, Amandine Gay, Valérian Guillaume

A social fable which combines everyday poetry with an ode to life in the slow lane. Off the beaten track of our consumerist society. No-one knows much about Loïc. Only that he makes the best chips in town, between Promod […]

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Raphaëlle Boitel

Performed by

Tristan Baudoin, Raphaëlle Boitel ou Louise Hardouin, Liliane Hérin, Nicolas Lourdelle, Mohamed Rarhib, Marie Tribouilloy, Emily Zuckerman

For circus performer Raphaëlle Boitel, imagining the future is the best way of changing the present. A glittering dystopia, When angels fall sends us spiralling with grace and poetry into a vigorous plea on behalf of the environment. A group […]

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Mia Couto

Direction

Victor de Oliveira

Performed by

Elliot Alex, Isabelle Cagnat, Horácio Guiamba, Bruno Huca, Ana Magaia, Eunice Mandlate, Josefina Massango, Miguel Moreira, Sofaida Moyane, Miguel Nunes, Lucrécia Paco, Daniel Pinto, Mario Santos, Klemente Tsamba

Adapted from the novel by Mozambican author Mia Couto, Sands of the emperor is a celebration of the invaluable nature of free-flowing borders and multiple identities. A transgressive love story set in the heart of colonial Africa. Sand of the […]

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Tatiana Frolova / KnAM Théâtre

Performed by

Dmitrii Bocharov, Irina Chernousova, Vladimir Dmitriev, German Iakovenko, Bleuenn Isambard, Liudmila Smirnova

Since 2011, the Sens Interdits Festival has been giving a voice to the Russian people via performances from KnAM Theatre. The company, whose members are currently taking refuge in France, tells us of the conflict that is tearing their country […]

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Chrystèle Khodr

Performed by

Roy Dib, Élie Njeim, Rodrigue Sleiman, Tarek Yaacoub

At the heart of her work is an urgent need to reconstruct a form of collective memory. Chrystèle Khodr takes inspiration from a work by Ibsen to highlight the social and political situation in Lebanon, her mother country. In The […]

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Milo Rau

Performed by

Frederico Araujo, Sara De Bosschere, Arne De Tremerie, Kay Sara et le musicien Pablo Casella

Oreste à Mossoul was a big hit at the 2019 edition of the Sens Interdits festival. Swiss director Milo Rau continues his cycle of classic myths with a wholly contemporary version of Antigone. In the state of Pará in northern […]

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Marc Lainé

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Bertrand Belin, Jessica Fanhan, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Adeline Guillot, Yanis Skouta et la participation de Dan Artus, Tünde Deak, Thomas Gonzalez et de David Hanse, Farid Laroussi, Laurie Sanquer

He loves to tell extraordinary tales. After the unbelievable Nosztalgia Express, Marc Lainé draws us into a love triangle like no other. Between theatre, music, and cinema. All of his plays feature characters who disappear without any explanation. As though […]

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Céline Fuhrer et Jean-Luc Vincent

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Céline Fuhrer, Valérie Karsenti, Cédric Moreau, Jean-Luc Vincent

“Three former Chiens de Navarre and one real actor” – this is how they laughingly introduce themselves. Céline Fuhrer, Valérie Karsenti, Cédric Moreau and Jean-Luc Vincent perform a feminist comedy with a satirical edge. Down with the patriarchal dictatorship! Imagine […]

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Goliarda Sapienza

Direction

Ambre Kahan

Performed by

Aymeline Alix, Pénélope Avril, Jean Aloïs Belbachir, Florent Favier, Noémie Gantier, Vanessa Koutseff, Serge Nicolaï, Louise Rieger, Richard Sammut, Romain Tamisier, Sélim Zahrani et les musicien·nes Amandine Robilliard, Romain Thorel (distribution en cours)

Masterpiece alert! This saga, released without fanfare in 1998, become a worldwide phenomenon a decade after its publication. Now, in the form of theatre, with a stage adaptation by Ambre Kahan, The Art of Joy guides us through the 20th century.  […]

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Martin Fourcade

Direction

Matthieu Cruciani

Performed by

Martin Fourcade

The biathlete Martin Fourcade is the most successful French athlete ever to compete in the Olympic Games. The champion has swapped the podium for the stage to look back at his life and his achievements. Five gold medals at the […]

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Delphine de Vigan

Direction

Fabien Gorgeart

Performed by

Laure Blatter, Catherine Hiegel, Pascal Sangla

Laure Blatter, Catherine Hiegel and Pascal Sangla bring to life the characters from Delphine de Vigan’s novel. The trio question the loss of language. I work with words and silence, with the unspoken. I work with shame, secrecy and regret. […]

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Émilienne Malfatto

Direction

Alexandre Zeff

Performed by

Lina El Arabi, Nadhir El Arabi, Nabil Berrehil, Amine Boudelaa, Afida Tahri, Myra Zbib et les musicienn·es Grégory Dargent, Wassim Halal (distribution en cours)

Winner of the 2021 Goncourt First Novel Prize, Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre immerses audiences in the reality of a dishonour crime. Alexandre Zeff has turned this contemporary tragedy into a hypnotic theatrical oratorio. In southern Iraq, a […]

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Olivier Martin-Salvan et Pierre Guillois

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Olivier Martin-Salvan en alternance avec Jonathan Pinto-Rocha et Pierre Bénézit, Pierre Guillois en alternance avec Grégoire Lagrange et Baptiste Chabauty

This “Laurel and Hardy à la française” created their Cardboard Cabaret on the place des Célestins in June 2021. On the back of a triumphant tour, Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan are here to share their slapstick adventures on the […]

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François Gremaud

Performed by

Rosemary Standley et les musiciennes en alternance Sandra Borges Ariosa, Laurène Dif, Tjasha Gafner, Anastasiia Lindeberg, Héléna Macherel, Célia Perrard, Irène Poma, Christel Sautaux, Sara Zazo Romero, Bera Romairone

Directed by François Gremaud, these solo performances take a humorous look at two masterpieces of the performing arts: Giselle for danse and Carmen for opera. Using minimalist stage design, François Gremaud pays a light-hearted tribute to one of opera’s great […]

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François Gremaud

Performed by

Samantha van Wissen (danse) et les musicien·nes en alternance Antonella de Franco, Tjasha Gafner, Anastasiia Lindeberg, Héléna Macherel, Irène Poma, Bera Romairone, Sara Zazo Romero, Lorentiu Stoian

Directed by François Gremaud, these solo performances take a humorous look at two masterpieces of the performing arts: Giselle for danse and Carmen for opera. Samantha van Wissen, an outstanding performer of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s choreographies, playfully takes on […]

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Joël Pommerat

Performed by

Alfredo Cañavate, Noémie Carcaud, Caroline Donnelly, Catherine Mestoussis, Léa Millet et Damien Ricau, Julien Desmet et la voix de Marcella Carrara

For the first time, Les Célestins will be presenting Joël Pommerat’s Cinderella, in a production of breathtaking beauty and heart-rending sensitivity. A new take on a fairytale which is as relevant for adults as it is for children. The fabric […]

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Elemawusi Agbedjidji

Performed by

Gustave Akakpo, Khadija Kouyaté

Set between the 18th and 21st centuries, between France and a distant island, La Chute Infinie des Soleils, by Elemawusi Agbedjidji, is a fresco that interweaves extraordinary destinies and explores the limits of hope. The remote island of Tromelin in […]

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According to

le film de Frederick Wiseman

Direction

Julie Deliquet

Performed by

Julie André, Astrid Bayiha, Éric Charon, Salif Cisse, Aleksandra De Cizancourt, Évelyne Didi, Olivier Faliez, Vincent Garanger, Zakariya Gouram, Nama Keita, Mexianu Medenou, Marie Payen, Agnès Ramy, David Seigneur et le musicien Thibault Perriard

Premiered in the Cour d’Honneur in Avignon in the summer of 2023, this hard-hitting work depicts the day-to-day life of a New York welfare centre in the 1970s. In January 2022, Julie Deliquet delighted audiences with Huit Heures ne font […]

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Collectif Les Bâtards Dorés

Performed by

Romain Grard, Lisa Hours, Jules Sagot, Manuel Severi et à l’image Christophe Montenez de la Comédie-Française

The collective Les Bâtards Dorés invites audiences to relive the trial that followed the sinking of La Méduse, in 1816, off the coast of Mauritania. This is a gritty, cross-disciplinary production that links the disaster to the excesses of the […]

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Copi

Direction

Louis Arene / Munstrum Théâtre

Performed by

Louis Arene, Sophie Botte, Delphine Cottu, Olivia Dalric, Alexandre Éthève, Lionel Lingelser, François Praud

The collective Les Bâtards Dorés invites audiences to relive the trial that followed the sinking of La Méduse, in 1816, off the coast of Mauritania. This is a gritty, cross-disciplinary production that links the disaster to the excesses of the […]

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Abdelwaheb Sefsaf

Performed by

Emmanuel Bardon, Henri-Charles Caget, Laurent Guitton, Spyros Halaris, Lauryne Lopès de Pina, Léa Maquart, Artyom Minasyan, Jean-Baptiste Morrone, Johanna Nizard, Aliocha Regnard, Malik Richeux, Abdelwaheb Sefsaf, Gülay Hacer Toruk, Simanë Wenethem

Three peoples. Three rebellions. Three continents. Abdelwaheb Sefsaf reopens a chapter of France’s colonial history using musical theatre as therapy to help us heal. Multi-talented playwright, singer, actor and director Abdelwaheb Sefsaf’s latest creation focuses on three rebellions: The 1871 […]

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Suzanne de Baecque

Performed by

Suzanne de Baecque, Raphaëlle Rousseau

Two young actresses take us behind the scenes of the Miss Poitou-Charentes 2020 election in this funny, tender and corrosive play. Kiara, Lauraline, Chloé, Lolita, Siham, Océane and Clémence are from different walks of life and social classes, but they […]

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Myriam Boudenia

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Myriam Boudenia, Éloïse Decazes, Pauline Drach, Julien Vadet

A poignant adolescent coming-of-age story which does not shy away from the still taboo subject of teen mental health. Myriam Boudenia combines drama, music and song in an original production steeped in heroic fantasy and the legends of King Arthur. […]

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Nicolaï Erdman

Direction

Patrick Pineau / Compagnie Pipo

Performed by

François Caron, Ahmed Hammadi Chassin, Marc Jeancourt, Aline Le Berre, Yasmine Modestine, Nadine Moret, Sylvie Orcier, Lauren Pineau-Orcier, Elliot Pineau-Orcier, Patrick Pineau

In 2012, Patrick Pineau and his band of actors treated us to a no-holds-barred performance with The Suicide. Now he is back with a new farce by Nikolai Erdman.  Seven years after the fall of the tsarist regime, two Soviet […]

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Lucy Kirkwood

Direction

Chloé Dabert

Performed by

Elsa Agnès, Sélène Assaf, Coline Barthélémy, Sarah Calcine, Bénédicte Cerutti, Gwenaëlle David, Brigitte Dedry, Olivier Dupuy, Andréa El Azan, Sébastien Éveno, Aurore Fattier, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Asma Messaoudene, Océane Mozas, Léa Schweitzer, Arthur Verret

In this nail-biting yet savagely funny play, thirteen women and three men take to the stage and give a new lease of life to a period drama which explores women’s place in 18th Century England.  Any resemblance to today’s society […]

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Yann Verburgh en collaboration avec Lionel Lingelser

Direction

Lionel Lingelser

Performed by

Lionel Lingelser

Lionel Lingelser’s play is both personal and phantasmagoric, intertwining a folk tale from his home region Alsace and his own acting career.  A joyful rite of passage which pays a vibrant tribute to the power of the imagination. Some legends […]

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Marion Siéfert

Performed by

Émilie Cazenave, Lou Chrétien-Février, Jennifer Gold, Lila Houel, Louis Peres, Charles-Henri Wolff

How can a power of domination take hold over a child? Marion Siéfert combines narrative, dance, music and video games so that theatre can represent what digital technology is doing to our lives. Mara is thirteen years old and lives […]

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Marcos Caramés-Blanco

Direction

Sarah Delaby-Rochette

Performed by

Thibaut Farineau, Lucas Faulong, Katell Jan, Benoît Moreira da Silva, Gaïa Oliarj-Inés

This fiery, queer cavalcade of a play won the Prix Incandescences in 2022. It’s the story of twenty-four hours in the life of a woman who devours everything in her path.  No one suspected anything. Up until then, she had […]

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Molière

Direction

Louis Arene

Created by the Comédie-Française in 2022, this masked version of Molière‘s Le Mariage Forcé tells the story of a love match that goes awry. The couple are due to be married that very evening. Yet wisdom should have led the […]

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Jules Verne

Direction

Christian Hecq et Valérie Lesort

Performed by

Mikael Fau, Christian Hecq, Laurent Natrella, Rodolphe Poulain, Éric Prat, Pauline Tricot, avec la voix de Cécile Brune

Christian Hecq are Valérie Lesort are back with their otherworldly interpretation of the Jules Verne novel. A dive to the bottom of the deep blue sea. Captain  Nemo describes it as a “Wonderland” but there are no little girls named […]

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Guillaume Cayet

Performed by

Valentin Durup, Manumatte

Together on stage, an actor and a musician give voice to the chronicle of a struggle, rebellion and transformation. Grès, is the story of a voice. The voice of a young father, a security guard by profession, who confides in […]

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According to

Shakespeare et autres textes

Direction

Vincent Macaigne

Performed by

Sharif Andoura, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Candice Bouchet, Thibault Lacroix, Clara Lama Schmit, Pauline Lorillard, Pascal Rénéric, Sofia Teillet et des enfants en alternance, (distribution en cours)

Fast and furious: Vincent Macaigne’s plays always cut straight to the chase. In this loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Richard III and other works, the actor and director explores the stupidity and ferocity of human nature. Richard III was the […]

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Aez Pinay avec le collectif Fléau social

Direction

Louise Bernard et Louv Barriol

Performed by

Arthur Colombet, Lucie Demange, Nino Djerbir, Lauryne Lopes de Pina, Flora Souchier, Étienne Thomas

This first production by the queer collective Fléau social draws parallels between the struggles of the 1970s and those still being waged in modern-day society. On 10 March 1971, in one of the founding moments in the history of LGBTQI+ […]

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Fabrice Melquiot

Performed by

Vincent Garanger et Philippe Torreton

A bitter-sweet play illuminated by two exceptional actors, Vincent Garanger and Philippe Torreton, Lazzi encourages us to reflect upon the end of an era. A magnificent ode to friendship. Against the backdrop of an abandoned movie set, two men find […]

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