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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 […]

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« Lilli / HEINER intra-muros » de Lucie Depauw et « Intégral dans ma peau » de Stéphanie Marchais

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Cécile Auxire-Marmouget et Christian Taponard

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Tatiana Frolova / Théâtre KnAM

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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 […]

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Mokhallad Rasem

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Arturo Brachetti

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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 […]

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Rezo Gabriadze

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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 […]

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Rezo Gabriadze

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Olivier Debelhoir, Ludor Citrik, Jean-Paul Lefeuvre, Proserpine, Samuel Achache, Mathurin Bolze, Vincent Segal et Lionel Suarez

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Johann Le Guillerm / Cirque ici

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Johann Le Guillerm

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Ludor Citrik et Le Pollu

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Cédric Paga, Camille Perrin

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Olivier Debelhoir

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Olivier Debelhoir

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Josefina Castro et Daniel Ortiz

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Josefina Castro et Daniel Ortiz

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Juan Ignacio Tula et Stefan Kinsman - Cie MPTA

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Juan Ignacio Tula, Stefan Kinsman et une roue Cyr

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Étienne Saglio - Cie Monstre(s)

Performed by

Étienne Saglio

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Isabelle Laroy et Johan Lescop

Performed by

Arthur Amouroux, Bernadette Favre, Juri Bisegna, Patricia Minder, Ricardo Mendes et Xavier Mermod

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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 […]

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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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Tatiana Frolova / Théâtre KnAM

Performed by

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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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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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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Monday, May 13 at 19h Tuesday, May 14 at 8 pm Free admission, limited seating available   BOOKING SUBSCRIPTIONS online : Wednesday, May 15 at 1 pm on site or by phone : Friday 17 May at 12.15

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

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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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les élèves du lycée Saint-Just section théâtre

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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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Don Nigro

Direction

Roman Viktyuk

Performed by

Igor Nevedrov, Dmitrii Zhoidik, Prokhor Tretiakov, Ekaterina Karpushina, Liudmila Pogorelova

In a play exploring the life story of the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, director Roman Viktyuk intertwines and juxtaposes the paths of freedom of expression and political tyranny. In 1933, on penning a 16-verse poem in which he dared […]

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Henrik Ibsen

Direction

Jean-François Sivadier

Performed by

Sharif Andoura, Cyril Bothorel, Nicolas Bouchaud, Cyprien Colombo, Vincent Guédon, Éric Guérin, Jeanne Lepers, Nadia Vonderheyden et Valérie de Champchesnel, Julien Le Moal, Christian Tirole

Public health versus economic prosperity, truth versus manipulation, freedom of thought versus tyranny of the masses; Jean-François Sivadier directs An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. The Stockmann brothers are like two sides of the same coin, as different […]

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Jean-Luc Godard

Direction

Charles Berling

Performed by

Hélène Alexandridis, Pauline Cheviller, Sébastien Depommier, Grégoire Léauté

Charles Berling takes Jean-Luc Godard’s film My Life to Live on board, featuring a score for three actors and a guitarist in a blaze of love and politics. This film drew inspiration from two iconic books, namely Nana by Émile […]

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Pierre Michon

Direction

Thierry Jolivet

Performed by

Thierry Jolivet

Thierry Jolivet depicts the life of Vincent Van Gogh through the eyes of postman Joseph Roulin. Based on the novel by Pierre Michon, the show combines theatre, music and video. Joseph Roulin was Van Gogh’s model during the time the […]

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François Hien

Direction

Estelle Clément-Bealem, Kathleen Dol, Arthur Fourcade, François Hien, Lucile Paysant

Performed by

Estelle Clément-Bealem, Kathleen Dol, Arthur Fourcade, François Hien, Lucile Paysant

A fictional work loosely inspired by the “Vincent Lambert affair”, Should Olivier Masson die? invites us to reconsider questions surrounding life and ethics. Bedridden in hospital, Olivier Masson has been living in a vegetative state for six years. As no […]

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Amir Reza Koohestani

Performed by

Mona Ahmadi, Saeid Changizian, Leyli Rashidi et la participation filmée de Juliette Rezai

Focusing on the theme of collapse, Summerless takes audiences into the playground of an Iranian primary school in a poetic and political play directed by Amir Reza Koohestani. Three people; a primary school supervisor, her ex-husband whose job it is […]

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Arnaud Desplechin

Direction

Julie Deliquet / Collectif In Vitro

Performed by

Julie André, Stephen Butel, Éric Charon, Solène Cizeron, Olivier Faliez, Jean-Christophe Laurier, Agnès Ramy, Marie-Christine Orry, Thomas Rortais, David Seigneur/Richard Sandra, Hélène Viviès, Jean-Marie Winling

In a zany and provocative chorus, it is not one tale but several that converge, overlap then diverge around a family meeting up for Christmas. Julie Deliquet immerses the audience in a world of families and transmission. Following on from […]

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George Langelaan

Direction

Valérie Lesort et Christian Hecq

Performed by

Christian Hecq, Valérie Lesort, Christine Murillo, Stephan Wojtowicz

Following on from their dreamlike 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, staged two seasons ago with the troupe from the Comédie-Française, Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq have now adapted the sci-fi world of The Fly to the stage. A scientist who […]

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Cédric Roulliat / Compagnie De Onze à Trois heures

Performed by

David Bescond, Sahra Daugreilh, Laure Giappiconi

After Ultra-Girl versus Schopenhauer, the young theatre group De Onze à Trois returns to the Célestins with Josie Harcoeur, a new dramatic and musical foray into the world of pop culture. Everyone in France remembers Dalida, Sheila and Nicoletta, but […]

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Pascal Rambert

Performed by

Emmanuelle Béart, Audrey Bonnet, Anne Brochet, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Arthur Nauzyciel, Stanislas Nordey, Denis Podalydès (sociétaire de la Comédie-Française) en alternance avec Pascal Rénéric, Laurent Poitrenaux, Jacques Weber

Actor and director Pascal Rambert brings together an exceptional cast to interweave precipices of History and intimate upheaval. He writes for actors and actresses, based on their presence, their bodies and their voices, on what they physically exude onstage. After […]

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Tracy Letts

Direction

Emmanuel Daumas

Performed by

Audrey Fleurot, Thibaut Évrard, Anne Suarez, Igor Skreblin, Emmanuel Daumas

Canceled show / Coronavirus information Following the Prime Minister’s announcement to ban gatherings of more than 100 people in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we are called to cancel all representations and demonstrations in the Célestins until […]

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Hakim Bah

Direction

Frédéric Fisbach

Performed by

Ibrahima Bah, Maxence Bod, Sophie Cattani en alternance avec Lorry Hardel, Madalina Constantin, Nelson-Rafaell Madel, Marie Payen

Canceled show / Coronavirus information Following the Prime Minister’s announcement to ban gatherings of more than 100 people in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we are called to cancel all representations and demonstrations in the Célestins until […]

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Direction

Julie Duclos

Performed by

Vincent Dissez, Philippe Duclos, Stéphanie Marc, Alix Riemer, Matthieu Sampeur, Émilien Tessier, les enfants Clément Baudouin, Sacha Huygue et Eliott Le Mouël (en alternance) et un groupe de femmes

Canceled show / Coronavirus information Following the Prime Minister’s announcement to ban gatherings of more than 100 people in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we are called to cancel all representations and demonstrations in the Célestins until […]

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Élise Chatauret

Performed by

Cast in progress

Combining documentary investigation and theatrical fiction, writer-director Élise Chatauret invites the audience to share the daily life of a French hamlet, with its thirty inhabitants. How can we convey a world that is in danger of disappearing? How can we […]

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Magali Mougel

Direction

Simon Delétang

Performed by

Marion Couzinié, Simon Delétang, Françoise Lervy, Charles-Antoine Sanchez et la voix d’Eliot Hénault-Fillion

A housewife leads an ordinary life for years with husband and children. Until everything cracks… Suzy Storck examines the feminine condition with sharpness and lucidity. Her name is Suzy Storck. Married Hans Vassili Kreuz, a man who just kissed her […]

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Ivan Viripaev

Direction

Ambre Kahan

Performed by

Yorick Adjal, Blade AliMBaye, Jean Aloïs Belbachir, Julie Bouriche, Jean-Baptiste Cognet, Monica Budde, Lucile Delzenne, Olivier Dupuy, Florent Favier, Magali Genoud, Laurent Meininger, Charlotte Ravinet, Tristan Rothhut, Laurent Sauvage, Laure Werckmann

Ivan Viripaev is the living Russian playwright most often performed in French theatres. His lucid and direct style of writing illuminates this choral work on the imbalances of our time. There are fourteen people on stage, unable to stand up […]

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Ovide, Isaac de Benserade et la vie de Brandon Teena

Direction

Camille Bernon, Simon Bourgade

Performed by

Camille Bernon, Pauline Bolcatto, Pauline Briand, Baptiste Chabauty, Mathieu Metral

Interweaving mythological figures, 17th century theatre and an event from the 1990s, Change Me explores the issue of transidentity. Staged as a thriller, the play draws the audience into a teenage party that ends in tragedy. As recounted by Ovid […]

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Edmond Rostand

Direction

Jean Liermier

Performed by

Pierre Banderet, Aude Bourrier, Candice Chauvin, Boris Degex, Julien George, Sabrina Martin, Baptiste Morisod, Ludovic Payet, Yann Philipona, Gilles Privat, Lola Riccaboni, André Schmidt, Raphaël Vachoux

Accompanied by Gilles Privat, Jean Liermier takes audiences back to the turn of the 20th century with a funny and tender Cyrano set in the Belle Époque. “A kiss, how would you define a kiss? An oath taken very close […]

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Alexander Zeldin

Performed by

Waj Ali, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke, Janet Etuk, Nick Holder, Hind Swareldahab (distribution en cours)

Show postponed to next season The first of Alexander Zeldin’s plays to be staged in France, Love highlights the precarious lives of the most disadvantaged in our society, in an intense portrayal of real lives. Alexander Zeldin believes that theatre […]

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Pierre Michon

Direction

Thierry Jolivet

Performed by

Thierry Jolivet

Thierry Jolivet depicts the life of Vincent Van Gogh through the eyes of postman Joseph Roulin. Based on the novel by Pierre Michon, the show combines theatre, music and video. Joseph Roulin was Van Gogh’s model during the time the […]

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Yann Verburgh

Direction

Eugen Jebeleanu

Performed by

Ioana Bugarin, Nicholas Catianis, Clémence Laboureau, Radouan Leflahi, Ilinca Manolache, Claire Puygrenier

When will we be ready to shift our borders? Jointly written by Eugen Jebeleanu and Yann Verburgh, Itinéraires, un jour le monde changera [Routes, one day the world will change] brings together Romanian and French actors to paint a sensitive […]

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Sara Llorca, Omar Youssef Souleimane, Guillaume Clayssen

Direction

Sara Llorca

Performed by

Sara Llorca, Elie Youssef, Raymond Hosny, Thomas Poitevin

La Terre se révolte [The Earth Revolts] is a joint project by director Sara Llorca and the Syrian poet – and refugee in France – Omar Youssef Souleimane, which combines theatre and dance to question the theme of otherness. The […]

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Anton Tchekhov

Direction

Cyril Teste

Performed by

Vincent Berger, Olivia Corsini, Katia Ferreira, Mathias Labelle, Liza Lapert, Xavier Maly, Pierre Timaitre, Gérald Weingand

For his new “film performance”, director Cyril Teste is staging a free adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s La Mouette [The Seagull]. The creation combines theatre and cinema, getting as close as possible to the actors’ bodies, energy and emotions. Trigorin, a […]

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Maurice Pialat, Arlette Langmann

Direction

Laurent Ziserman

Performed by

Magali Bonat, Benoît Martin, Savannah Rol, Laurent Ziserman

ANA, standing for À nos amours, the famous film by Maurice Pialat, now brought to the stage by actor and director Laurent Ziserman. An intense and physical family huis-clos and winner of the Prix Célest’1 2019 – Maquettes prize. Father, […]

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David Clavel

Performed by

Maël Besnard, David Clavel, Emmanuelle Devos, Valérie De Dietrich, Daniel Martin, Anne Suarez

Portraying the twists and turns of a family reunion, L’Heure bleue [The Blue Hour] depicts the burden of memories, silences and misunderstandings. At the heart of this tragedy of things left unsaid lies a formidable cast of actors and the […]

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"Le Vilain Petit Canard" de Hans Christian Andersen

Direction

Alexis Armengol

Performed by

Nelly Pulicani, Romain Tiriakian, Shih Han Shaw

A young orphan is about to tell a tale that pursues her, that acts on her like a mirror, when she lets herself be caught up in her past. Show aimed at all audiences, Vilain! mixes the arts and speaks […]

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Angélica Liddell

Performed by

Angélica Liddell, Gumersindo Puche, Niño De Elche, Ichiro Sugae et une vingtaine de participants

For the first time in Lyon, Angélica Liddell presents Una costilla sobre la mesa: Madre (A rib on the table: Mother). A punch show in which the great Spanish artist displays all her exuberance. A singular artist if ever there […]

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Marion Aubert

Direction

Julien Rocha

Performed by

Margaux Desailly, Fabrice Gaillard, Johanna Nizard et Cédric Veschambre

Through winks to the life and filmography of Patrick Dewaere, four actors retrace the path of a man in movement, in search, in struggle. And draw a fictionalized vision of the untroubled beings that we are: on the border of […]

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Mathilda May

Performed by

Pierre Richard

Directed by Mathilda May, the unforgettable protagonist of the Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire [The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe] opens the doors to a mute world that sways to and forth between dreams and the absurd. […]

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Raphaël Defour

Performed by

Pauline Laurendeau, Clara Lespine, Bérengère Sigoure, Cécilia Steiner, Lisa Torres

Rescheduled to 2021 following cancellation of the performances in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Five actresses question the archaic and contemporary figures of witches, in a poetic escapade combining writings, documentary, autofiction and song. The five actresses brought […]

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Naomi Wallace

Direction

René Loyon

Performed by

Olga Mouak, Morgane Real, Roxanne Roux, Alison Valence

Considered one of the great living authors of American theatre, Naomi Wallace takes an uncompromising look at her country’s shortcomings. Her play And I and Silence forcefully and beautifully denounces the brutality of social conditioning. “There is a singular tone […]

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Kirill Serebrennikov

Performed by

Odin Lund Biron, Alexey Bychkov, Yang Ge, Gueorgui Koudrenko, Nikita Kukushkin, Julia Loboda, Daniil Orlov, Andrey Petrouchenkov, Andrey Poliakov, Evgeny Romantsov, Anastassia Radkova, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Igor Sharoïko

Outside was one of the highlights of the 2019 Avignon Festival, in which Kirill Serebrennikov pays tribute to the Chinese photographer Ren Hang through theatre, music and dance. Considered one of the most gifted artists of his generation, Ren Hang […]

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Ingmar Bergman

Direction

Dorian Rossel, Delphine Lanza

Performed by

Fabien Coquil, Delphine Lanza, Ilya Levin

Delphine Lanza and Dorian Rossel adapt Ingmar Bergman’s inner world to the stage, creating a captivating dive into the depths of the imagination. Bergman is one of the most celebrated names in cinema, an introspective filmmaker who, at the end […]

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William Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, George Steiner, Joseph Brodsky

Direction

Tiago Rodrigues

Performed by

Tiago Rodrigues

In just a few years, Tiago Rodrigues has become one of the most prominent artists on the European scene. Combining poetry, confidences and politics, he invites audiences to share the actor’s process and erases the boundaries between reality, theatre and […]

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Gurshad Shaheman

Performed by

Gurshad Shaheman

Iranian-born artist Gurshad Shaheman invites us to an immersive and ambulatory experience in three parts. An overwhelming self-fictional spectacle: at the edge of theater, installation and performance. He was born in Iran, where he grew up with his father, during […]

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Raphaël Patout

Performed by

Pierre-François Doireau, Josée Drevon, Damien Houssier, Elisabeth Hölzle, Pauline Huruguen

Rallying around an apprentice architect, a community of citizens launches into a new city project… Where the world of ideas converges with the practical world, the Lyon-based company La Chambre Noire invites us to reconsider, with humour, how we live […]

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Pierre Guillois

Performed by

Jean-Michel Fournereau, Magali Léger ou Marie Oppert, Charlotte Marquardt, Quentin Moriot, Élodie Pont, Pierre Samuel et les musiciens Matthieu Benigno (percussions), Nicolas Ducloux (clavier), Chloé Ducray ou Claire Galo-Place (harpe), Gabrielle Godart (clavier), Nicolas Crosse (contrebasse) (distribution en cours)

Two women, two men, a robot and a hen are on their way to the Red Planet to become its first settlers… A space musical “made in France”, Mars-2037 brings mankind’s greatest dream to life. 12 June 2037. After many […]

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Hugues Duchêne

Performed by

Juliette Damy, Vanessa Bile-Audouard, Théo Comby-Lemaître, Hugues Duchêne, Marianna Granci, Laurent Robert, Robin Goupil

The young members of the Royal Velours Company first met as student actors at the Comédie-Française. In this documented theatrical serial, they analyse the Macron years with deliberate impertinence. The stage is empty, except for a piano, a few chairs […]

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Hugues Duchêne

Performed by

Juliette Damy, Vanessa Bile-Audouard, Théo Comby-Lemaître, Hugues Duchêne, Marianna Granci, Laurent Robert, Robin Goupil

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Hugues Duchêne

Performed by

Juliette Damy, Vanessa Bile-Audouard, Théo Comby-Lemaître, Hugues Duchêne, Marianna Granci, Laurent Robert, Robin Goupil

The young members of the Royal Velours Company first met as student actors at the Comédie-Française. In this documented theatrical serial, they analyse the Macron years with deliberate impertinence. The stage is empty, except for a piano, a few chairs […]

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Hugues Duchêne

Performed by

Juliette Damy, Vanessa Bile-Audouard, Théo Comby-Lemaître, Hugues Duchêne, Marianna Granci, Laurent Robert, Robin Goupil

The young members of the Royal Velours Company first met as student actors at the Comédie-Française. In this documented theatrical serial, they analyse the Macron years with deliberate impertinence. The stage is empty, except for a piano, a few chairs […]

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Christoph Marthaler

Performed by

Tora Augestad, Bendix Dethleffsen, Michael von der Heide, Nikola Weisse

A key figure in European theatre, Christoph Marthaler comes to Lyon for the first time with King Size, a vibrant mix of zany, musical and melancholic comedy. King Size immerses the audience in the ostentatious decor of a bourgeois vaudeville, […]

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Fabien Gorgeart, Clotilde Hesme, Pascal Sangla

Direction

Fabien Gorgeart

Performed by

Clotilde Hesme, Pascal Sangla

The actress Clotilde Hesme, the musician Pascal Sangla and the filmmaker Fabien Gorgeart take on a short story by Emmanuèle Bernheim. The story of a young woman who, after watching a Sylvester Stallone film, decides to change her life. One […]

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Alfred, Bastien Lallemant et Olivier Ka

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Acid Arab et Raphaelle Macaron

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Lucie Vérot

Direction

Maïanne Barthès / Compagnie Spell Mistake(s)

Performed by

Simon Alopé et Cécile Maidon

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Les Transformateurs

Direction

Nicolas Ramond

Performed by

Anne De Boissy et Jean-Philippe Salério

In 2019, Anne de Boissy and Jean-Philippe Salério were awarded the first Prix Célest’1 for their performance in Ça marchera jamais. They are now back at Les Célestins with this jubilant take on the paths to failure. And to success. […]

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Olivier Martin-Salvan et Pierre Guillois

Performed by

Olivier Martin-Salvan et Pierre Guillois

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Myriam Boudenia

Performed by

Marian Badoi, Anne de Boissy, Sarah Kristian, Lucile Marianne, Martin Sève

A middle name – an apparently insignificant detail – can reveal a story previously forgotten. With a blend of intimacy and universality, theatrical performance and Gypsy music, Myriam Boudenia juxtaposes the fate of five characters – including three generations of […]

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Claude Lanzmann

Direction

Éric Didry

Performed by

Nicolas Bouchaud et Frédéric Noaille

Nicolas Bouchaud adapts Claude Lanzmann’s film interview on Nazi brutality Un vivant qui passe for the stage, with a deeply-held belief in the unique closeness that theatre fosters with the work it interprets. What is seeing? How do we abdicate […]

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Alexander Zeldin

Performed by

Amelda Brown, Naby Dakhli, Janet Etuk, Oliver Finnegan, Amelia Finnegan en alternance avec Grace Willoughby, Joel MacCormack, Hind Swareldahab, Daniel York Loh

The first of Alexander Zeldin’s plays to be staged in France, Love highlights the precarious lives of the most disadvantaged in our society, in an intense portrayal of real lives. Alexander Zeldin believes that theatre should look at society from […]

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Marina Otero

Performed by

Augusto Chiappe, Juan Francisco López Bubica, Marina Otero, Fred Raposo, Matías Rebossio, Cristian Vega, Miguel Valdivieso

Created in 2020 at the Buenos Aires International Festival, Fuck Me is the final episode in a political, autobiographical fiction by Argentinian writer Marina Otero. A smouldering piece on the effects of ageing. “I thought that I would always be […]

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Dieudonné Niangouna

Performed by

Dieudonné Niangouna

Alone on stage, Congolese writer, director, and actor Dieudonné Niangouna delivers a tale of exile and questions the role of theatre in a world assailed by violence. “I see it all in my mind’s eye: my porous words, my soul […]

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Kirill Serebrennikov

Performed by

Odin Lund Biron, Alexey Bychkov, Yang Ge, Gueorgui Koudrenko, Nikita Kukushkin, Julia Loboda, Daniil Orlov, Andrey Petrouchenkov, Andrey Poliakov, Evgeny Romantsov, Anastassia Radkova, Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Igor Sharoïko

Outside was one of the highlights of the 2019 Avignon Festival, in which Kirill Serebrennikov pays tribute to the Chinese photographer Ren Hang through theatre, music and dance. Considered one of the most gifted artists of his generation, Ren Hang […]

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Tatiana Frolova / Théâtre KnAM

Performed by

Dmitri Bocharov, Vladimir Dmitriev, Guerman Iakovenko, Ludmila Smirnova, Irina Tchernousova

A regular feature at the Célestins, KnAM theatre is back in Lyon with a new political documentary-style production – a piece that questions the very existence of happiness. The KnAM theatre company was founded in 1985 at Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Eastern […]

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Guillaume Clayssen, Sara Llorca, Omar Youssef Souleimane

Direction

Sara Llorca

Performed by

Raymond Hosny, Sara Llorca, Thomas Poitevin, Elie Youssef

La Terre se révolte is a joint project by director Sara Llorca and the Syrian poet – and refugee in France – Omar Youssef Souleimane, which combines theatre and dance to question the theme of otherness. The play is set […]

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Christophe Honoré

Performed by

Youssouf Abi-Ayad, Harrison Arévalo, Jean-Charles Clichet, Julien Honoré, Chiara Mastroianni, Stéphane Roger, Marlène Saldana

Equally at home in the theatre as in the cinema, Christophe Honoré brings these two artforms together in a family saga that mirrors the story of his own relatives, and where the stage is transformed into the setting for an […]

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Rasmus Lindberg

Direction

Michel Didym

Performed by

Éric Berger, Irène Jacob, Jérôme Kircher, Hana Sofia Lopes, Catherine Matisse, Julie Pilod

From Swedish playwright Rasmus Lindberg, this family thriller with its choppy narrative plunges us into the metaphysical mysteries surrounding the tortuous uncertainty of the human condition. Dialogues intersect. Events collide and eras overlap. Habiter le temps, with its syncopated, interwoven […]

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Raphaël Defour

Performed by

Raphaël Defour

For their first collaboration, contemporary art space La BF15 and the Célestins theatre bring us an exhibition and a performance formed at the point where their worlds collide. Too shy to talk to girls, Raphaël Defour has transformed his bedroom […]

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Ivan Viripaev

Direction

Ambre Kahan

Performed by

Yorick Adjal, Blade AliMBaye en alternance avec Loïc Djani, Jean Aloïs Belbachir, Julie Bouriche, Jean-Baptiste Cognet, Monica Budde, Lucile Delzenne, Olivier Dupuy, Florent Favier, Magali Genoud, Laurent Meininger, Charlotte Ravinet, Tristan Rothhut, Jean-Damien Barbin, Laure Werckmann, avec la voix de Thomas Jolly

Ivan Viripaev is the living Russian playwright most often performed in French theatres. His lucid and direct style of writing illuminates this choral work on the imbalances of our time. There are fourteen people on stage, unable to stand up […]

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Johanny Bert

Performed by

Johanny Bert, Anthony Diaz et les musiciens Guillaume Bongiraud, Cyrille Froger

From the imagination of director and puppeteer Johanny Bert, Hen offers audiences a joyful and provocative evening, cross-referencing 1930s Berlin cabarets and the contemporary queer scene. Hen has a wide range of facial and bodily expressions. Glamorous and virile, raw […]

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« Le Capitaine Fracasse » de Théophile Gautier

Direction

Jean-Christophe Hembert

Performed by

Jean-Alexandre Blanchet, François Caron, Jacques Chambon, Caroline Cons, Thomas Cousseau, Aurélia Dury, Benjamin Gauthier, Eddy Letexier, Luc Tremblais en alternance avec Patrick Pineau, Yasmina Remil, Loïc Varraut

Jean-Christophe Hembert is known for his role in television and film as Karadoc de Vannes in Kaamelot. Returning to the theatre, he is now directing a flamboyant adaptation of Captain Fracasse. In his novel Captain Fracasse, Théophile Gautier takes us […]

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François Morel

Performed by

François Morel

François Morel’s tender, playful tribute to the great Raymond Devos, J’ai des doutes leads us to rediscover texts which speak of life, death, and the irresistible absurdity that lies between the two.  “Once you’ve seen him you never forget him: […]

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Mathilda May

Performed by

Pierre Richard

Directed by Mathilda May, the unforgettable protagonist of the Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire [The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe] opens the doors to a mute world that sways to and forth between dreams and the absurd. […]

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Direction

Sacha Ribeiro

Performed by

Logan De Carvalho, Camille Davy, Alicia Devidal, Léa Emonet, Marie Menechi, Clément Soumy, Simon Terrenoire, Alice Vannier

Since participating in the April 2016 occupation of the Célestins theatre, artists from the company Courir à la Catastrophe have drawn on this experience to create a play within a play exploring the association between artistic expression and political action. […]

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Caroline Guiela Nguyen

Performed by

Dan Artus, Saadi Bahri, Boutaïna El Fekkak, Hoonaz Ghojallu, Maïmouna Keita, Nanii, Élios Noël, Alix Petris, Saaphyra, Vasanth Selvam, Anh Tran Nghia, Hiep Tran Nghia, Mahia Zrouki

A great science-fiction epic, FRATERNITÉ, Conte fantastique flings the doors to the future wide open, depicting a world of reconciliation. A world where nothing is more precious than humanity. Caroline Guiela Nguyen draws on real life in all its complexity […]

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Sacha Ribeiro, Alice Vannier

Performed by

Sacha Ribeiro, Alice Vannier

Sacha Ribeiro and Alice Vannier take to the stage together to explore the possibility of changing roles, changing places. This is their way of making the stage into a place to search for freedom and question gender stereotypes. One night, […]

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"La Misère du monde" de Pierre Bourdieu

Direction

Alice Vannier

Performed by

Anna Bouguereau, Margaux Grilleau, Thomas Mallen, Sacha Ribeiro, Vincent Steinebach, Judith Zins

En réalités gives a voice to those who, in one way or another, bear the brunt of the world’s social deprivation. A masterful creation which won the first ever Prix Célest’1 in 2019. Published in 1993, La Misère du monde […]

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Épisodes 1 à 5

Direction

Julie Deliquet

Performed by

Lina Alsayed, Julie André, Éric Charon, Évelyne Didi, Christian Drillaud, Olivier Faliez, Ambre Febvre, Zakariya Gouram, Brahim Koutari, Agnès Ramy, David Seigneur, Mikaël Treguer, Hélène Viviès et en alternance Sacha Rouch-Zubillaga et Luce Noël-Mangin

Combining social commentary and mainstream entertainment, this new piece from Julie Deliquet is a stage adaptation of a little-known television series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A joyful and radical piece that plunges us into 1970s working-class Germany. Broadcast in the […]

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Munstrum Théâtre

Direction

Louis Arene

Performed by

Louis Arene, Sophie Botte, Delphine Cottu, Alexandre Éthève, Lionel Lingelser, Erwan Tarlet et la voix de Judith Chemla

A roller-coaster descent into a “post-apocalyptic” world, Zypher Z. brings us face to face with our own demons. A futuristic allegory on the issue of replication. With their passion for creating picturesque, dream-like worlds, Munstrum Theatre catapults us into a […]

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Laurent Mauvignier

Direction

Michel Raskine

Performed by

Louis Domallain et Thomas Rortais

In a single unbroken sentence, Ce que j’appelle oubli tells of the fate of a young man who died before he had a chance to live. Michel Raskine portrays the remorseless cruelty of a barbaric act which went unnoticed. This […]

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Christian Hecq, Valérie Lesort

Performed by

David Alexis, Valérie Keruzoré, Valérie Lesort / Emmanuelle Bougerol, Thierry Lopez, Laurent Montel, Pauline Tricot, Nicolas Verdier, Éric Verdin / Renan Carteaux

They delighted us with their adaptations of 20,000 leagues under the sea and The Fly. Now Christian Hecq et Valérie Lesort are back at the Célestins once more with a fresh take on the fantastical adventures in Jonathan Swift‘s famous […]

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Pierre Michon

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Thierry Jolivet

Performed by

Thierry Jolivet

Thierry Jolivet depicts the life of Vincent Van Gogh through the eyes of postman Joseph Roulin. Based on the novel by Pierre Michon, the show combines theatre, music and video. Joseph Roulin was Van Gogh’s model during the time the […]

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Philippe Gauthier, Nicolas Givran

Direction

Nicolas Givran

Performed by

Julien Dijoux, Fabrice Lartin et en alternance Noé Mercier et Lino Malterre

All through a rainy night, a child and a teenager combine their respective powers of imagination to try to find some solid ground in their lives. Between fantasy and the search for the self, this is a moving, contemporary anti-fairy […]

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Anton Tchekhov

Direction

Cyril Teste / Collectif MxM

Performed by

Vincent Berger, Olivia Corsini, Katia Ferreira, Mathias Labelle, Liza Lapert, Xavier Maly, Pierre Timaitre, Gérald Weingand

For his new “film performance”, director Cyril Teste is staging a free adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s La Mouette [The Seagull]. The creation combines theatre and cinema, getting as close as possible to the actors’ bodies, energy and emotions. Trigorin, a […]

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Ivan Viripaev

Direction

Cécile Auxire-Marmouget

Performed by

Cécile Auxire-Marmouget, Olivier Werner

A man and a woman sit in their kitchen before sunrise. Sun Line shifts between tragedy and comedy, looking at the barriers that separate people and need to be overcome. It’s 5 o’clock in the morning and night will soon […]

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"À nos amours" film de Maurice Pialat et "Les Filles du faubourg" scénario de Arlette Langmann

Direction

Laurent Ziserman

Performed by

Magali Bonat, Benoît Martin, Savannah Rol, Laurent Ziserman

ANA, standing for À nos amours, the famous film by Maurice Pialat, now brought to the stage by actor and director Laurent Ziserman. An intense and physical family huis-clos and winner of the Prix Célest’1 2019 – Maquettes prize. Father, […]

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Direction

Katie Mitchell

Performed by

Elisabeth Boudreault, Fiona McGown, Andrew Henley, Romain Bockler, Philippe Dusigne

Fourteen years after their last production at the Célestins (Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River, directed by Olivier Py), the Opéra de Lyon invites Katie Mitchell as part of its annual festival, whose theme this year is “Family Secrets”. This celebrated artist […]

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Naomi Wallace

Direction

René Loyon

Performed by

Sarah Labrin, Morgane Real, Roxanne Roux, Juliette Speck

Considered one of the great living authors of American theatre, Naomi Wallace takes an uncompromising look at her country’s shortcomings. Her play And I and Silence forcefully and beautifully denounces the brutality of social conditioning. “There is a singular tone […]

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Anne-Cécile Vandalem / Das Fräulein [Kompanie]

Performed by

Philippe Grand’Henry, Laurent Caron, Zoé Kovacs, Épona Guillaume, Arnaud Botman, l'équipe de réalisation : Federico D’Ambrosio et Leonor Malamatenios

Who could forget those theatrical yet thoroughly contemporary thrillers, Tristesses and Arctique?    Anne-Cécile Vandalem is back at the Célestins theatre with an epic and enthralling tale about Mankind’s inability to live in peace. They dreamed of getting away from the […]

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Jean-Michel Ribes

Performed by

Didier Bénureau, Romain Cottard, Manon Chircen, Charly Fournier, Annie Grégorio, Jean Joudé, Alice de Lencquesaing, Philippe Magnan, Marie-Christine Orry, Stéphane Soo Mongo

A piece set “in twelve apartments, with a building manager on the stairs and a road at the front”, Jean-Michel Ribes’ latest trip into the absurd portrays modern society with all the mischief and sense of the grotesque that have […]

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Lars Norén

Direction

Julie Duclos

Performed by

Mithkal Alzghair, Alexandra Gentil, David Gouhier, Émilie Incerti Formentini, Manon Kneusé, Yohan Lopez, Stéphanie Marc, Cyril Metzger, Leïla Muse, Alix Riemer, Émilien Tessier, Maxime Thébault, Étienne Toqué

A fresco of modern times, Kliniken shines a light on the daily lives of men and women living in a psychiatric hospital. A piece from the late great writer Lars Norén which transcends reality to show us how serious – […]

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Christoph Marthaler

Performed by

Graham F. Valentine, Martin Zeller

Theatre, music, comedy… Christoph Marthaler brings his feel for the absurd and his quirky poetry to bear on a piece which explores the whys and wherefores of the shortcomings that propel our lives forward. Friends and partners in theatre since […]

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Ovide, Isaac de Benserade et la vie de Brandon Teena

Direction

Camille Bernon, Simon Bourgade

Performed by

Camille Bernon, Pauline Bolcatto, Pauline Briand, Baptiste Chabauty, Mathieu Metral

Interweaving mythological figures, 17th century theatre and an event from the 1990s, Change Me explores the issue of transidentity. Staged as a thriller, the play draws the audience into a teenage party that ends in tragedy. As recounted by Ovid […]

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Noëmie Ksicova

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Noëmie Ksicova, Cécile Péricone

Performed by

Lumir Brabant, Anne Cantineau, Juliette Launay, Théo Oliveira Machado, Antoine Mathieu et Noëmie Ksicova

How can we keep those who are no longer with us alive, keep them close? Noëmie Ksicova pulls on the threads of absence and grief in a delicate piece which employs great sensitivity to address that which is beyond repair. […]

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Molière

Direction

Jérôme Deschamps

Performed by

Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Sébastien Boudrot, Bénédicte Choisnet, Vincent Debost, Jérôme Deschamps, Aurélien Gabrielli, Pauline Gardel, Guillaume Laloux, Josiane Stoleru

The creator of the French comedy TV series “Les Deschiens” brings The Bourgeois Gentleman to the stage. Accompanied by the Musiciens du Louvre, he takes on the role of Monsieur Jourdain, directing a zany and dreamlike comedy ballet. Monsieur Jourdain […]

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Leonid Andreev

Direction

Julien Gosselin / Compagnie Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur

Performed by

Guillaume Bachelé, Joseph Drouet, Denis Eyriey, Carine Goron, Victoria Quesnel, Achille Reggianni, Maxence Vandevelde

His adaptation of Elementary Particles was one of the highlights of our 2014-15 season. Today, Julien Gosselin moves away from contemporary writing to bring together on stage texts by Leonid Andreev (1871-1919). A poignant farewell to a humanity and theatre […]

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Clément Bondu

Performed by

Mona Chaïbi, Vanessa Fonte, Lisa Kramarz, Antonin Meyer-Esquerré (à l'image) et Mathieu Perotto

A reflection on language, the past, and the power of imagination, Les Étrangers paints a portrait of European youth in the 21st century. From Paris to Berlin, from Naples to Moscow, from Sète to Tangier: this is a chronicle of […]

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Baptiste Amann

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Solal Bouloudnine, Alexandra Castellon, Nailia Harzoune, Yohann Pisiou, Samuel Réhault, Lyn Thibault, Olivier Veillon

Inheritance, citizenship, identity: from the intimate to the political, Baptiste Amann imbues this epic theatrical crossing with the vibrant colours of our age. At the centre of these three Territoires (Nous sifflerons la Marseillaise… / …d’une prison l’autre… / …et […]

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Théâtre du Soleil

Performed by

Shaghayegh Beheshti, Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini, Georges Bigot, Aline Borsari, Sébastien Brottet-Michel, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Hélène Cinque, Marie-Jasmine Cocito, Eve Doe Bruce, Maurice Durozier, Man Waï Fok, Farid Gul Ahmad, Sayed Ahmad Hashimi, Samir Abdul Jabbar Saed, Martial Jacques, Dominique Jambert, Judit Jancso, Shafiq Kohi, Agustin Letelier, Ya-Hui Liang, Vincent Mangado, Andréa Marchant, Julia Marini, Alice Milléquant, Taher Mohd Akbar, Nirupama Nityanandan, Miguel Nogueira da Gama, Seietsu Onochi, Vijayan Panikkaveetil, Reza Ghulam Rajabi, Omid Rawendah, Xevi Ribas, Arman Saribekyan, Thérèse Spirli

Look, an island! In 2011, Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir dazzled us with their explosive humanism. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil company are back with us for another long-haul trip. Destination: the shores of a paradise waiting to […]

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François Hien

Performed by

Jérôme Cochet, Maud Cosset-Chéneau, Clémentine Desgranges, Géraldine Favre, Arthur Fourcade, François Gorrissen, François Hien, Martin Sève, Flora Souchier et une cinquantaine d'artistes amateurs

A historical fresco shot through with current political sentiment, La Révolte des Canuts, a story about the textile workers’ uprising in Lyon, was commissioned by the Opera and written over several months during workshops with amateur actors. Between 1831 and […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Salim Djaferi

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Solal Bouloudnine, Maxime Mikolajczak avec la collaboration d’Olivier Veillon

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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 […]

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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 […]

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"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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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William Shakespeare

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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"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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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Emma Dante

Two Neapolitan tales adapted by Emma Dante: one tangible, poetic, outlandish performance. Attend the 2 shows ans benefit from a reduced price. You can choose different dates or chain them on the same evening.   La Scortecata From 21 to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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Julie Rossello Rochet

Direction

Lucie Rébéré

Performed by

Nelly Pulicani

Writer Albertine Sarrazin, star of French literature. From prostitution to crime, from being in prison to being on the run, then entering the world of literature, Albertine Sarrazin has crossed all lines and broken all moulds. Born to an unknown […]

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Galactik Ensemble

Performed by

Mathieu Bleton, Céline Fuhrer, Violaine Garros, Jonas Julliand, Dimitri Jourde, Karim Messaoudi, Cyril Pernot, Sean Drewry, Blanche Lafuente

A madcap, roving, acrobatic theatrical adventure. Written especially for the Célestins, Presque Fresque invites us to an open-air performance in front of the theatre, before leading us on a meandering path to our seats in the Grande salle. This comic […]

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Baro d'evel

Performed by

Camille Decourtye, Blaï Mateu Trias et le corbeau pie Gus

A ballet in black and white for two people and a pied crow. The artists of French-Catalan company Baro d’evel defy form and genre. Somewhere between dance and acrobatics, theatre and graphic arts, burlesque and melancholia, their imaginary world captivates […]

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Phia Ménard

Performed by

Marion Blondeau

By orchestrating a clash between a woman and a statue pedestal, Phia Ménard keeps digging away at the foundations of patriarchal violence, using her imagination and a call to dreams. In a French formal garden bathed in twilight, a woman […]

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