La Parabole du Seum

Rébecca Chaillon

In the face of the world’s rapidly growing fascist tendencies, Rébecca Chaillon breathes new life into our imagination with a science-fiction fable in which survival goes hand in hand with magic.

After Plutôt vomir que faillir, which was widely acclaimed in our house in 2024, Rébecca Chaillon’s new work echoes and references Octavia Butler’s cult novel Parable of the Sower, in which we follow a teenage girl who invents her own religion in order to survive in a devastated world. The artist wanted to take this idea further: ‘I have magical faith, and it’s one of my strategies as a Black, fat, ageing, childless lesbian woman’.

By seeking to deconstruct the mechanisms of exclusion, Rébecca Chaillon forges new mythologies focused on queer representations nourished by astrology and superstitions. She proposes a narrative in which fat, racialized, queer bodies can simply exist, free from normative injunctions. La Parabole du Seum is at once an exciting performance and an act of resistance, shifting perspectives and, above all, inciting us to dream differently.

All performances are available in the Relax format.
The stories featured in this production deal with fatphobia, queerphobia, racism, transphobia, sexism and sexual violence. This show contains scenes of nudity and uses smoke.

Rébecca Chaillon is an associate artist at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Copresentation Kaaitheater

Season 2025·2026

Calendar

Wednesday 16.12.2026 - 19:00
Relax Performance

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Thursday 17.12.2026 - 20:00
Relax Performance & Introduction · 19:30

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Friday 18.12.2026 - 20:00
Relax Performance

Tickets
Saturday 19.12.2026 - 16:00
Relax Daytime Performance

Tickets

Information

Tickets are also on sale through our partner → Kaaitheater

Venue

Grande salle

Duration

2hr30

Language

fr surtitling nl, en

Kids

15+

Price

10€ > 35€

Cast

Concept and text
Rébecca Chaillon

With the participation of
Alexia Alexi
Yanis Boulahia
Solenne Capmas
Céline Champinot
Hassan Gourniz
Loulie Houmed
Camille Léon-Fucien
Living Smile Vidya
Nabila Mekkid
Élisa Monteil
Suzanne Péchenart
Camille Riquier
Julie Teuf

Direction
Rébecca Chaillon
Céline Champinot

With
Yanis Boulahia
Hassan Gourniz
Loulie Houmed
Camille Léon-Fucien
Living Smile Vidya
Nabila Mekkid
Julie Teuf

Set design
Camille Riquier

Sound design
Élisa Monteil

Lighting design
Alexia Alexi
Chloé Roger

Costume design
Solenne Capmas

Video design and operation
Elisa Bernard
Boris Carré
Tao Klos
Pauline Millet
(alternating)

Production stage manager (creation)
Suzanne Péchenart

General and stage management
Suzanne Péchenart
Marianne Joffre
(alternating)

Lighting operator
Chloé Roger
Selma Yaker
(alternating)

Sound operator
Élisa Monteil
Justine Pommereau
(alternating)

Subtitling
Lisa Wegener

Assistant director intern
Marie Delpit

Administration and production
Élise Bernard
Manon Crochemore
Amandine Loriol

Production management and development
Mélanie Charreton / Bureau O.u.r.s.a M.I.n.o.r

A set construction by the Pôle de mutualisation de services & ressources techniques.

With the support of the Atelier Costumes du Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles

Acknowledgements
Sandra Calderan, Shehrazad Dermé, Róise Goan, Mélanie Martinez-Llense, Mara Teboul, Margault Chavaroche, Léa Ferrez-Lenhard, Marianne Vigneulle et toutes les équipes du Manège Maubeuge - scène nationale transfrontalière, du Théâtre Léo Ferré – Aulnoye-Aymeries, du Théâtre Public de Montreuil - CDN et du Wiener Festwochen for their invaluable support during the creative residencies.

Rébecca Chaillon is represented by L’Arche - Agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com

Production
Compagnie Dans le ventre

Co-production
Théâtre Public de Montreuil - CDN, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna, Les Nuits de Fourvière - Lyon Metropolitan Area International Festival, Comédie de Genève, Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg - scène européenne, Festival d’Avignon, Dublin Theatre Festival, tnba - Théâtre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Le Volcan - scène nationale du Havre, La Criée - Théâtre National de Marseille, Le Carreau du Temple - cultural and sports centre of the City of Paris, Théâtre Sorano - Scène conventionnée - Toulouse

Co-production as part of the Interreg VI France-Wallonia-Flanders cross-border programme - EMERGE
Le Manège Maubeuge – cross-border national theatre, Le Phénix – Valenciennes National Theatre, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Le Théâtre de Namur and Kunstencentrum VierNulVier – Ghent

A project selected by the Prospero NEW platform, co-funded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme

With the support of the Pôle International de Production et de Diffusion – SUN, the Théâtre Léo Ferré – Aulnoye-Aymeries, and Le Générateur – Gentilly

The text was commissioned by La Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (MC93) as part of Multitude, the Seine-Saint-Denis Intercultural Biennale

La Compagnie dans le Ventre is funded by the ministry of Culture (DRAC Hauts-de-France)