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  Festival des Libertés

  Documentaries, theatre, concerts, debates, exhibitions

  21 > 31.10.2021

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  Contes et légendes

  Joël Pommerat

  09 > 21.11.2021

  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

  16 > 27.11.2021

  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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  EXTREME / MALECANE

  Paola Pisciottano

  23 > 27.11.2021

  In the last few years Europe has been experiencing a resurgence of nationalist parties. Paola Pisciottano investigates this accession of European youth to certain ideals.

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  La Lune est en Amazonie

  Mapa Teatro 

  02 > 04.12.2021

  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

  08 > 11.12.2021

  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

  14 > 18.12.2021

  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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  Rebota Rebota y en tu cara explota

  Agnès Mateus, Quim Tarrida

  15 > 17.12.2021

  They number in the thousands, murdered by their husbands, ex husbands, boyfriends, and fiancés. De show takes to task not only the femicides but also breaks down the stereotypes implicit in the female roles.

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  Festival Noël au théâtre

  CTEJ – Chambre des théâtres pour l’enfance et la jeunesse 

  26 > 30.12.2021

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  Codebreakers

  Vladimir Steyaert

  11 > 15.01.2022

  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

  12 > 22.01.2022

  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

  18 > 22.01.2022

  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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  Triptych:
  The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor

  Peeping Tom

  01 > 05.02.2022

  Beyond the absolute virtuosity of the dancers, the acrobatic contortions of which approach unreality, "Triptych" offers a unique language and opens a magic dimension.

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  Festival TAKTIK

  12 & 13.02.2022

  TakTik is the new participatory festival for 14–17-year-olds, designed for and by them. For one weekend, teenagers are invited to take over all the spaces of the Théâtre National.

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  Désobéir

  Julie Berès

  15 > 19.02.2022

  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

  18 & 19.02.2022

  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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  I Silenti

  Lisaboa Houbrechts, Fabrizio Cassol

  22 > 25.02.2022

  "I Silenti" speaks of those who have been silenced. From the extreme fragility of this cry springs the power of emotions and the poetry of a recomposed story.

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  De Infinito universo

  Filippo Ferraresi

  23 > 26.02.2022

  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

  08 > 12.03.2022

  "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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  « Normal »

  Isabelle Darras, After Party//Cie

  15 > 19.03.2022

  Combining object theatre, video, puppetry and live actors, « Normal » tells the story of three women relegated to the lost property department.

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  Africa Simply the Best

  Zora Snake, Agathe Djokam, Charlemagne Kevin Kabore

  17 > 19.03.2022

  The three winners of the choreographic competition "Africa Simply the Best" started by Serge Aimé Coulibaly are leaving on their tour to present their work. 

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  Uwrubba

  Ali & Hèdi Thabet

  22 > 26.03.2022

  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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  Festival XS

  31.03 > 02.04.2022

  Reflecting the season, the XS Festival opens wide the doors of the Théâtre National. All the doors. And everywhere there are artists to welcome you for short pieces (5 to 25 minutes in duration).

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  Pasionaria

  Marcos Morau, La Veronal

  20 > 23.04.2022

  Marcos Morau pursues a transversal choreographic work fed by many forms of expression. He explores the mechanisms of passion and questions the notion of progress.

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  Sons of Abraham

  Sahand Sahebdivani, Raphael Rodan

  26 > 30.04.2022

  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

  29 & 30.04.2022

  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

  04 > 06.05.2022

  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

  05 > 14.05.2022

  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

  10 > 14.05.2022

  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

  19 > 28.05.2022

  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 

  20 > 28.05.2022

  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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