THÉÂTRE NATIONAL
Program
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Ouvertures
21.08 > 12.09.2021So that we can get together without having to wait for the end of the summer, the Théâtre National is continuing the itinerant programme begun last summer. Supported by cultural venues, we’re taking advantage of the outdoors to bring culture (back) to life.
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La Dernière nuit du monde
Laurent Gaudé, Fabrice Murgia
14 > 18.09.2021Imagine 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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La Bombe humaine
Eline Schumacher, Vincent Hennebicq
23.09 > 03.10.2021Melting 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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LOCO
Natacha Belova, Tita Iacobelli
05 > 09.10.2021"The Diary of a Madman" by Gogol recalls this frantic need to exist, to play a role in society. Translating this major work on stage are two actors and a puppet, a sort of avatar, a multiple body that opens onto all possibilities.
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Kingdom
Anne-Cécile Vandalem / DAS FRÄULEIN (KOMPANIE)
07 > 14.10.2021Two 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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Tchaïka
Natacha Belova, Tita Iacobelli
12 > 16.10.2021On a stage lit in chiaroscuro, an actress and a puppet wander together in the universe of "The Seagull". Tchaïka, aging actress suddenly finds herself on stage.
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Festival des Libertés
Documentaries, theatre, concerts, debates, exhibitions
21 > 30.10.2021 -
Feroz
Danilo Llanos
19 > 21.10.2021Surrounded 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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Contes et légendes
Joël Pommerat
09 > 21.11.2021Joël 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 > 27.11.2021Four 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 > 27.11.2021In 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 > 04.12.2021Starting 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 > 11.12.2021To 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 > 18.12.2021Two 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 > 17.12.2021They 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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Codebreakers
Vladimir Steyaert
11 > 15.01.2022Vladimir 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 > 22.01.2022A 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 > 22.01.2022How 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 floorPeeping Tom
01 > 05.02.2022Beyond 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 & 13.02.2022TakTik 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 > 19.02.2022Four 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 & 19.02.2022The 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 > 26.02.2022In 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 > 19.03.2022Combining 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 > 19.03.2022The 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 > 26.03.2022Against 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 > 02.04.2022Reflecting 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 > 23.04.2022Marcos 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 > 30.04.2022Through 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 & 30.04.2022With 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 > 06.05.2022On 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 > 14.05.2022Between 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 > 14.05.2022Imagine 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 > 28.05.2022Welcome. 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 > 28.05.2022At 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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Annual closure of the ticket office 17.07 > 16.08.2021.
Online reservations remain open 24/7.