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La Bombe humaine

Eline Schumacher, Vincent Hennebicq

Melting ice, acidification of the oceans, disappearance of animal and plant species… One word alone sums up the impact of man on the terrestrial ecosystem: anthropocene.

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Kingdom

Anne-Cécile Vandalem / DAS FRÄULEIN (KOMPANIE)

Two families have removed themselves from the modern world to live in peace with nature. In this environment as hostile as it is wonderful, mistrust and resentment boil over.

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Feroz

Danilo Llanos

Surrounded by other children deprived of voice, four children uncompromisingly evoke horror. They tell about their daily lives in a juvenile detention centre. 

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Feroz

Danilo Llanos

Surrounded by other children deprived of voice, four children uncompromisingly evoke horror. They tell about their daily lives in a juvenile detention centre. 

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Tiens ta garde

Collectif Marthe

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La Dernière nuit du monde

Laurent Gaudé, Fabrice Murgia

Imagine a world without night. A world where mankind, aided by science, puts an end to its physiological need for sleep. A pill would allow a person to sleep for only 45 minutes without the effect of fatigue.

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Contes et légendes

Joël Pommerat

Joël Pommerat returns to a more intimate form of theatre. He addresses childhood, especially that tipping point when it slides into adolescence.

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L'Errance de l'hippocampe

Jean-Michel D’Hoop

Four characters are stuck in this singular space-time. Are they dreaming? On a theatre stage? Or in a brain that may be living its last moments? 

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La Lune est en Amazonie

Mapa Teatro 

Starting from documented events, the Mapa Teatro gathers materials to create a new “ethno-fiction” crossing social imagination and poetic research.

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FRATERNITÉ, Conte fantastique

Caroline Guiela Nguyen

To face their pain, to share their distress, the “Remainers” have the need to create new care tools: they then invent “Care and Consolation Centres”

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Le Dîner

Jean-Michel Frère, Cie Victor B

Two brothers and their spouses get together in an upscale restaurant. What brings them together: an unmentionable act committed by their two sixteen-year-old sons.

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Codebreakers

Vladimir Steyaert

Vladimir Steyaert shines a light on Alan Turing, Giordano Bruno, Camille Claudel and Chelsea Manning. What do they have in common? Their bold stand against the status quo!

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Home

Morceaux de nature en ruine

Magrit Coulon

A sanitized and calm place, where we wait. Plunging into this particular temporality, "Home" allows us to (re)discover something of our own experience of old age.

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Pueblo

Ascanio Celestini, David Murgia

How do we collect and tell stories? "Pueblo" tells the urban legends of its flamboyant characters who sometimes appear in more than one show. 

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Désobéir

Julie Berès

Four determined young women describe their daily lives. They wrench “breaths of freedom” from the various oppressive systems: traditions, religion, men and family. 

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Henrietta Lacks

Anna Smolar

The stage morphs into multiple settings. Through sober and lively play, bodily agility, and with an ability to paint a portrait in a few strokes sufficient for emotion to emerge.

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De Infinito universo

Filippo Ferraresi

In three tableaux, "De Infinito universo" contrasts the intimacy of the human being with the grandeur and mystery of certain universal questions, which have no answer.

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Une cérémonie

Raoul Collectif

"Une cérémonie" is seeking its rules and its forms. One can make out the historical fantasy of a group looking for absolutes, carting around its ideals, its dreams and its musical instruments.

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Uwrubba

Ali & Hèdi Thabet

Against a background of melodies by Vivaldi, medieval polyphonic chants and rebetiko Ali and Hèdi Thabet build an intense performance, in which artistic forms mingle.

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Sons of Abraham

Sahand Sahebdivani, Raphael Rodan

Through skillful storytelling, Raphael Rodan and Sahand Sahebdivani offer a device that plays with clichés and in which fiction feeds on reality.

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Antigone in Molenbeek

Guy Cassiers

With the same quest for the absolute as the ancient heroine, the staging brings to light both the prejudices towards those who are considered “foreign”, and the limits of patriarchal society.

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Please, continue (Hamlet)

Yan Duyvendak, Roger Bernat

On the stage transformed into a courtroom, a trial takes place, the trial oif a young man who during a wedding kills his girlfriend’s father. Directly involved in the debates, the audience are asked to “examine the charges”.

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SKRIK

Elisabeth Woronoff

Between fiction and documentary, SKRIK transposes to the stage the dazzling intensity of the memories which arise in fragments. The show puts a spotlight on violence against children to invite reflection.

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The Last Night of the World

La Dernière nuit du monde

Laurent Gaudé, Fabrice Murgia

Imagine a world without night. A world where mankind, aided by science, puts an end to its physiological need for sleep. A pill would allow a person to sleep for only 45 minutes without the effect of fatigue.

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Portraits sans paysage

Nimis Groupe

Welcome. Two syllables that sound like a promise of meeting, of hospitality. Not for refugees. In our Western societies, the reception of exiles leads to confinement, surveillance and an absence of perspective for those who are uprooted.

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The Quest

Cédric Eeckhout 

At the juncture of stand-up, the absurd and existential drama, Cédric Eeckhout obsessively singles out the similarities that unite his fate with that of the entire continent, politically and economically.

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