STRANGE FRUIT EN CONCERT

Oumou Sangare • Marie Daulne • David Linx • Baba Sissoko • Claron Mc Fadden • Kris Dane • Melissa Givens • La Choraline

01.06.2012

Partant de la chanson Strange Fruit, Fabrizio Cassol a créé un album concept (un genre Opéra du Monde) où plusieurs chanteurs d’origine culturelle très variée s’expriment, allant du jazz à l'opéra baroque ou de la pop à l'afro-beat.

CONTINU

Choreography by Sasha Waltz (SEASON TICKET NOT VALID)

COPRESENTATION La Monnaie/De Munt - Théâtre National | 19 > 21.06.2012

With Continu, Sasha Waltz has gathered key elements of her work from the previous ten years continuing the engagement with primary visual impulses (architecture). In collaboration with 24 dancers, she has created a large-format, archaic choreography. Edgard Varèse’s Arcana is the musical core of Continu.

The 25 September 2012

11 créations, des classiques,
des textes d’aujourd’hui, des rencontres, le Festival des Libertés, le Festival XS et bien d’autres moments festifs…

MA CHAMBRE FROIDE

Text and direction by Joël Pommerat

CREATION | 23 > 28.04.2012

« A genial serial play by Joël Pommerat… Ma Chambre Froide is like an impetuously ride on a carousel: impossible to resist. This play sticks to you and you’ll be totally seduced… Such experiences, rarely to be seen on stage… » Brigitte Salino, Le Monde, March 2011

THANKS TO MY EYES

Opera of Oscar Bianchi | Direction and libretto by Joël Pommerat (SEASON TICKET NOT VALID)

CREATION | La Monnaie/De Munt – Théâtre National | 3 > 11.04.2012

MINUTES OPPORTUNES

Choreography by Michèle Noiret, in collaboration with the dancers

From 27 to 31.03.2012

« Shiver, humour and suspense... Starring four brilliant dancers, this playful performance is full of references to the Hitchcockian film noir... between two thrilling parts, a magnificent choreography impassions the audience... » Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir, November 2010

XS

15 > 17 mars 2012

XS (eXtra Small), c’est 18 spectacles, 14 créations, plus de 60 artistes réunis chaque soir, un formidable maelström d’énergies créatrices, un concentré jubilatoire pour les curieux ! 3 soirées intenses et surprenantes.

KISS & CRY

Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael. Collective creation by Gregory Grosjean, Thomas Gunzig, Julien Lambert, Sylvie Olivé, Nicolas Olivier

From 3 to 9 mars 2012

«Pure magic, pure delight... this astonishing performance is a mix of poetry, magic, cinema and fingers...» Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, March 2011

PARASITES

Marius Von Mayenburg | Vincent Hennebicq/Artara

CREATION Artara - Théâtre National | 28.02 to 10.03.2012

Vincent Hennebicq, director and actor (Dieu and a DJ, Baal), dreams of staging a play with the ruthless humoristic text by Marius von Mayenburg. Moving and funny, lively and strong, purging, this story takes us to the daily chaos of these short-tempered and combative characters searching their way of living between solitude and solidarity.

DIRTY WEEK-END

Helen Zahavi | Direction by Jacques Delcuvellerie

CREATION Groupov - Théâtre National - Festival de Liège | 28.02 > 10.03.2012

« ... Helen Zahavi’s implacable style is characterized by short sentences and piercing words... Delcuvellerie knows with only his words how to hold one’s listeners spellbound... » Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, February 2011

LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS

After Alexandre Dumas fils | Direction by Frank Castorf

CREATION | Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe – Théâtre National | 10 > 15.02.2012

Frank Castorf adapts for the stage one of the most well-known love stories: La Dame Aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils has upset generations of readers. A young provincial bourgeois falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a “demi-mondaine” woman suffering from tuberculosis. Becoming chaste, the lady turns her back on the life as a "courtesan" and goes to live with her lover in the countryside.

EXILS

Text and direction by Fabrice Murgia/Artara. Performance as part of the project Villes en scène/Cities on stage

CREATION Théâtre National - Odéon/Théâtre de l'Europe - Teatro Stabile di Napoli - Teatrul National Radu Stanca | 24.01 > 11.02.2012

In Fabrice Murgia’s new play, classed somewhere between a documentary and imagination, reality and virtual reality, actors and marionettes tell how the destiny of an exile stranded at Lampedusa intertwines with that of a police officer charged with the expulsion of new refugees.

LE SONGE D'UNE NUIT D'ETE

William Shakespeare | Direction by Isabelle Pousseur

CREATION Théâtre National | CO-PRESENTATION Théâtre National – KVS | 13 > 28.01.2012 | TOERNEE GENERAL EN SEASON

Isabelle Pousseur stages exceptionally talented, rarely graceful African actors passionate about theatre. Inspired by Black Africa, with this play she wants to show us the incredible « elsewhere » from Shakespeare’s imagination.

LE SIGNAL DU PROMENEUR

CREATION | Raoul Collectif – Théâtre National - Maison de la Culture de Tournai

CO-PRESENTATION Théâtre National - KVS | 10 > 20.01.2012 | TOERNEE GENERAL THIS SEASON

« ...The good dynamism of the Raoul Collectif permits addressing vital questions without making it heavy by mixing nonsense, musical interacts and sketches… At last, a theatre group spreading a message by means of poetry instead of lubrication…» Pascaline Vallée, Mouvement, February 2011

O IDIOTA

Fiodor Dostoïevski | Direction by Cibele Forja

CO-PRODUCTION | Europalia International - Théâtre National | 13 and 14.12.2011

EUROPALIA.BRASIL | Staged by nine actors from the prestigious theatre company in São Paulo, L’Idiot received, in Brazil, both audience and critical acclaim.

ATTENTION : timetable change

DE GEHANGENEN

LOD | Josse De Pauw | Jan Kuijken

CO-PRESENTATION Théâtre National - KVS | 8 > 10.12.2011 | TOERNEE GENERAL THIS SEASON

« A beautiful, gripping and stirring play … without any austerity, punctuated with humour, astonishing light design… Magnificent! » Michèle Friche, Le Soir, 4th May 2011

BALISTIQUE TERMINALE

Text and direction by Coline Struyf

CREATION Théâtre National - Festival de Liège - Maison de la Culture de Tournai | 6 > 17.12.2011

« ... Coline Struyf confronts us with the rough reality of a violent act avoiding any sense of psychology and sentimentality. This violent act of a young woman killing her best friend is staged as a mixture of scientific discourse, live music and carried to the extreme through choreographies. A revealing, baffling play… ». Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir, January 2011

BAAL

Bertolt Brecht | Directors Raven Ruëll and Jos Verbist

CREATION Theater Antigone - Théâtre National | 3 > 10.12.2011 - TOERNEE GENERAL THIS SEASON

« ... Baal is at the maximum of his forces. Thanks to the flamboyant pen of Bertolt Brecht, the golden intuition of the directors and the force of the acting... Baal is a brilliant rediscovery of the first play of Brecht... It’s recommendable to both the youngest and the more experienced spectators that wanting to enjoy a passionate version of Brecht on scene... » Els Van Steenberghe, Knack, M 2011

PARABELO et ONQOTO

Grupo Corpo | Choreographies by Rodrigo Pederneiras

CO-PRODUCTION Europalia International – Théâtre National | 2 et 3.12.2011

EUROPALIA.BRASIL | The theatrical and choreographic language of the company Grupo Corpo is recognizable between thousands: a perfectly stirred tempestuous cocktail of classic and contemporary technics worked up by Brazilian dances, saloon dances and tradition African dances. Two spectacles of each 42 minutes are to be discovered every night: Onqotô and Parabelo.

CALENDRIER DE L'AVENT 2011

Après les représentations de PARABELO/ONQOTO, BAAL, BALISTIQUE TERMINALE, DE GEHANGENEN, O IDIOTA,

1er > 24.12.11

Rendez-vous du 1er au 24 décembre, soit sur scène, soit sur internet !

Une performance d'écriture et de jeu où Florence Minder se donne pour mission de livrer un court format théâtral par jour !

AVEZ-VOUS EU LE TEMPS...

Collective creation by Cie De(s)amorce(s) | Thissa d’Avila Bensalah

FESTIVAL DES LIBERTES | 25.11.2011

A collective of politically engaged actors and actresses come together trying to adapt a text by Fassbinder: Anarchy in Bavaria, a naive science fiction play questioning the concept of art and utopia.

GUY BEDOS : RIDEAU !

SEASON TICKET NOT VALID

(Festival des Libertés) | Thursday 24.11.11 – 20h

This is his last rant. His last show, his first goodbyes. “Curtain!” he shouts. He says that after this he’s stopping. He’s going to open the flood gates, launch his last broadsides and every night try, finally, to leave it all on stage. To ward off death by laughing. And if it works, then he’ll start all over again.

SEAPLANE MOTHERSHIP

Hotel Modern

FESTIVAL DES LIBERTES | 22.11.2011

THEATRE | The Netherlands - A burning library is like an old civilisation that dies out. When they start to attack culture, civilisation ends up on its deathbed. This is the starting point for Seaplane Mothership, which deals with the journey of a spaceship on which a sample of civilisation sends a touching farewell to Earth when oxygen begins to run out.

SCHEISSEIMER

Souvenirs dessinés d’une guerre | FESTIVAL DES LIBERTES | 20.11.2011

By and with Koenraad Tinel

THEATRE | Belgium - Koenraad Tinel was barely six years old when he became involved in the war. His parents were sympathetic to the German occupiers. Years later, he came to realize the decisive influence that his father’s choices had had on his subsequent life. After enjoying great success in Flanders where the show was presented several times at HETPALEIS, Koenraad Tinel will now tell his story for the first time in French at Festival des Libertés.

AMARILLO

Harold Pinter/Gabriel Contreras | Teatro Linea di Sombra | Jorge Arturo Vargas

FESTIVAL DES LIBERTES | 19.11.2011 | 18h and 20h

THEATRE | Mexico «... Amarillo is rather a composition, a tragic fresco with a very dynamic, a certain gloominess and black humour. Briefly, Amarillo is stirring play of a great artistic value. » Tiempo Libre, Mexico.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL EN CONCERT

SEASON TICKET NOT VALID (Festival des Libertés)

Thursday 17.11.11 – 21h

The last album of Marianne Faithfull blends soul, blues, folk, country, jaunty jazz-pop accents and a captivating rock guitar, all supported by her incredible voice. This album, as colourful, tragic and free as Marianne Faithfull’s own life, vibrates with that sophisticated joy of those who’ve seen the world.

LE FESTIVAL DES LIBERTES

Organisation : Bruxelles Laïque, Unie Vrijzinnige Verenigingen, Théâtre National and Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg

17 > 26.11.11

Political and artistic, intercultural and creative, festive and subversive, Festival des Libertés returns each autumn to mobilise all forms of expression in order to offer an overview of the state of rights and freedoms around the world, to point out lurking dangers, to bring people together in a fun, relaxing atmosphere, to encourage restistance and to promote solidarity. Deconstructing myths, making utopias real.

HABIT(U)ATION

Anne-Cécile Vandalem

from 8 to 12.11.2011

«... Successful interpretation of the talented actors, Anne-Cécile Vandalem involves the house actively into the play using all kinds of technical resources and machines preventing that the play would unfold perfectly. An unclassifiable and seductive play thanks to its stunning visuals, sound and technology...» Le Soir, December 2010.

INDIOS NO BRASIL

A night created by Maires Mehinaku and Kayapo in collaboration with Gustaaf Verswijver

CO-PRODUCTION | Europalia International - Théâtre National | 14 > 16.10.2011

EUROPALIA.BRASIL | A two-hour performance by two Indians groups, one from the savannah, the other from the virginally green forest. They will present rituals from their traditional repertoire.

FAUST

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Silviu Purcarete (SEASON TICKET NOT VALID)

A performance organized by TOUR & TAXIS and produced by Teatrul National Radu Stanca/Sibiu (Romania) | 12 > 15.10.2011

Faust is more than a stage play. With this evocative scenery and lights, the fireworks, the provocative costumes whether elegant or burlesque and also with the rock music he leads us to an indefinite world, between earth and hell.

CENDRILLON

Text and direction by Joël Pommerat

CREATION | Théâtre National - La Monnaie/De Munt | 11 > 29.10.2011

Joël Pommerat rewrites, adapts and excels the tale Cendrillon. In mourning for her mother, lost in the colourful universe and unbridled from her stepmother, Pommerat has created a Cinderella story which will shatter the stereotypes of fairies, princesses or witches. (For everyone over the age of eight)

PLAY LOUD

Text and direction by Falk Richter

A production of the Théâtre National | 5 > 9.10.2011

« Play Loud mixes all styles. There is a lot of excellent singing… Old film fragments are projected on scene, first-rate videos enclose the stage. The famous Anne Tismer, very impressive dancer and an extraordinary performer, is gifted in performing, dancing, singing no matter what… » Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, February 2011

LE CHAGRIN DES OGRES

Text and direction by Fabrice Murgia/Artara

A performance: Artara/Théâtre National/Festival de Liège/Théâtre & Publics | 27.09 > 1.10.2011

« ... Fabrice Murgia has created a terrible tale, in which the imagery of the protagonists comes to life on stage. Without any judgement, nor morale, Le Chagrin des orges points the finger right on the problem. A problem embodied in the imaginary character of the little girl… A masterly performed role…» Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir, February 2009