Program
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Ouvertures
5 events to set the Théâtre National back in motion
15.08 > 13.09.2020 -
Wakatt
Serge Aimé Coulibaly
22 > 26.09.2020At a time when walls are being built between different peoples, when nationalisms thrive on the rejection of the other, Serge Aimé Coulibaly incites to resistance and openness towards a common and generous future.
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The Quest
Cédric Eeckhout
23 > 25.09.2020At 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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Points de rupture
Françoise Bloch
29.09 > 10.10.2020Burnout, rebellion, crisis, deep differences, Françoise Bloch questions these mutations and the oppression that precedes them or even provokes them.
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Une cérémonie
Raoul collectif
10 > 18.10.2020Une cérémonie is seeking its rules and its forms, hesitates when picking its costumes and its protocol. 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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Contes et Légendes
Joël Pommerat
10 > 28.11.2020Joël Pommerat addresses childhood, especially that tipping point when it slides into adolescence. How to create oneself, through which collective representations? He associates this key moment in human existence with the myth of the artificial creature.
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L’Errance de l’hippocampe
Jean-Michel D'Hoop
01 > 13.12.2020Jean-Michel d’Hoop and the Cie Point Zéro examine memory, one of humankind’s most fascinating endeavors. From the personal to the universal, memory helps to create human identity, following its history, its uniqueness.
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La Bombe Humaine
Eline Schumacher & Vincent Hennebicq
03 > 18.12.2020With La Bombe Humaine, Vincent Hennebicq and Eline Schumacher put the global climatic disruption front and center. They take on the full complexity of the subject, including the inconsistencies.
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Le Dîner
Jean-Michel Frère - Cie Victor B
15 > 19.12.2020Two brothers and their spouses get together in an upscale restaurant. Serge, a politician destined for great things, and Paul, retired history professor who is very critical of his brother’s thirst for power. What brings them together: an unmentionable act committed by their two sixteen-year-old sons.
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Pueblo
Ascanio Celestini & David Murgia
05 > 09.01.2021How do we collect and tell stories? How do we describe the essence of a character? Ascanio Celestini and David Murgia continue their collaboration to lay a foundation of a new theatrical tale around this large tribe of invisible beings.
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Wakatt
Serge Aimé Coulibaly
12 > 16.01.2021At a time when walls are being built between different peoples, when nationalisms thrive on the rejection of the other, Serge Aimé Coulibaly incites to resistance and openness towards a common and generous future.
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SKRIK
Elisabeth Woronoff
26 > 30.01.2021The amnesia due to trauma and the suffering it harbors challenged Elisabeth Woronoff to the point that the young woman made them the subject of her first theatrical creation.
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Le Présent qui déborde
Christiane Jatahy
29 > 31.01.2021Christiane Jatahy shows us the travels of real contemporary Odysseus. Men and women who bear witness to exile, resonating with the emotions of Homer’s Odysseus.
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Journal d’un lit vide
Mokhallad Rasem
02 > 06.02.2021Journal d’un lit vide is a poetic invitation to think about the passing of time, about distance and intimacy, about having to say goodbye and start over again.
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Triptych : The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor
Peeping Tom
03 > 12.02.2021Between theatre and choreographic creation, the performances of Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier start from an ordinary situation to evolve into something strange. Unsettled, the characters struggle in a hyperrealist and disturbing world where temporal markers are scrambled. Memories or premonition?
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Paying for it
La Brute
16 > 20.02.2021The La Brute collective is examining a taboo: prostitution. Via documentary theatre, it raises questions about the sexual service marketplace and further, the place sex holds in society.
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« Normal »
Isabelle Darras - CIE AFTER PARTY // CIE
23.02 > 06.03.2021At the junction of object theatre and puppetry, Isabelle Darras’ creation tells the story of three downgraded women, reduced to the status of found objects in the lost and found they now inhabit.
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Si j'étais moi
Mathias Simons
02 > 14.03.2021Being both actors and narrators, three characters fill this grating comedy with visions and archetypes: the powerful, the foot soldier and the witch.
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Désobéir
Julie Berès
03 > 12.03.2021Four determined young women have at a black wall to urgently inscribe this word as a rallying cry: “Disobey”. One after the other and then together, with a powerful voice, they describe their daily lives.
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Africa simply the best
3 solos
16 > 20.03.2021The three winners of the competition Africa Simply The Best started by Serge Aimé Coulibaly received professional training before leaving on their tour to present their work: Le Départ, À qui le tour ? and Corps en mutation.
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A concert called landscape
Josse De Pauw & Kris Defoort
LOD muziektheater
18 > 20.03.2021Josse De Pauw gives a voice and a music to our personal cartography. Our childhood attic, a soothing room or the calm of a forest give our world a peaceful familiarity.
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Please, continue (Hamlet)
Yan Duyvendak, Roger Bernat
23 > 27.03.2021Immersed in the dramaturgy of the crime and the authenticity of the proceedings, the spectator is a direct witness to the complex workings of justice. Involved in the proceedingshe or she is invited to “consider the charges” and to remember that “the accused is presumed innocent and that he is owed the benefit of the doubt.”
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Festival XS
01 > 03.04.2021 -
TCHAÏKA
Natacha Belova, Tita Iacobelli
20.04 > 01.05.2021On a stage lit in chiaroscuro, an actress and a human sized puppet wander together in the universe of Chekov’s The Seagull.
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Nassim
Nassim Soleimanpour
27.04 > 01.05.2021Every evening, a different actor gets up on stage with the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and discovers for the first time a script placed in a sealed box.
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EXTREME / MALECANE
Paola Pisciottano
04 > 08.05.2021Paola Pisciottano, investigates this accession of European youth to certain ideals. For three years she has conducted research in four countries questioning the feeling of emptiness that these political movements try to respond to.
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Le Dernier salut
Nicolas Buysse
05 > 15.05.2021Three actors refuse to hang up their acting boots and take their audience on an urban and poetic cavalcade, beyond the theatre walls.
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The Quest
Cédric Eeckhout
05 > 09.05.2021At 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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Home
Morceaux de nature en ruine
Magrit Coulon
20 > 29.05.2021How to put 90 years of existence into a 15 square meter room? What does one see of the world from such a location? At the juncture of fiction and documentary, Magrit Coulon is inspired by scenes observed during a number of months in a nursing home in Brussels.
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