With a sharp pen and fierce wit, Guillaume Guisset performs a caustic, irreverent stand-up that dissects modern contradictions and everyday anxieties. His satire blends pointed observation, personal anecdotes and rhythmic delivery to expose the quirks of urban life and neo-rural burnout, mixing dry melancholy with biting comedy. The show creates a tense, lively atmosphere where laughter and reflection meet, revealing humour that is both savage and strangely tender.
In French.
Two short plays by Anton Chekhov staged by Tibor Ockenfels and Flavie Tapparel, presented as compact dramatic machines where romantic comedy masks escalating confrontations between desire, affection and material interest. Performances rely on precise physical timing, terse exchanges and a lean, playful design to reveal the simmering violence behind courtship rituals. The three actors — Estelle Bridet, Matteo Prandi and Raphaël Vachoux — inhabit heightened character types that shift between farce and darker comic truth, creating a sharply observed, kinetic evening.
In French.
Recluses Fest #10 presents a raw, high-energy punk evening featuring The Exploited, Les Clébards and Bad Nasty. The Exploited bring their aggressive classic punk roar, Les Clébards mark their 20-year tour with a distinctive Swiss date, and Bad Nasty deliver street punk rooted in 1990s US scenes. The bill mixes celebrated headliners and local voices within an inclusive, volunteer-run festival atmosphere that prioritizes community, loud performance and sonic immediacy.
Directed by Jérémie Lebreton, La Grande Histoire de l’opéra stages a witty, fast-paced lecture-performance in which Professor Oduris, a prima donna and her pianist condense four centuries of opera into vibrant tableaux. Louis Geisler provides musical dramaturgy as performers Lysa Menu, Joël Terrin and Arthur Noël shift between comic, dramatic and poetic sketches. Set designer Christian Bovey frames sudden temporal leaps with playful visuals while the production, from the Grand Théâtre de Genève, probes the tension between music and text, creating a lively, reflective atmosphere.
In French.
Text by Erri De Luca. Directed by Barbara Baker and F‑X Fernandez‑Cavada, Impossible unfolds after a man falls from a steep trail in the Dolomites. Blending investigation, memory and love letters, the staging probes guilt, betrayal and political history as two former members of the same terrorist group confront a shared past. The production balances documentary clarity and poetic fragments, offering a tense, intimate reflection on vengeance and the echoes of the 20th century into the present.
In French.
Paul de Saint Sernin’s stand-up programme, written and performed by the artist, blends sharp comedic timing with candid memories of adolescence, humiliations and personal fears. Directed by Grégoire Dey, the staging relies on intimate storytelling, subtle physicality and pared-down mise-en-scène to turn vulnerability into laughter. The show plays with rhythm and self-questioning, offering a warm yet probing portrait of growing up in a voice both confessional and wry.
In French.
Directed by Marie-José Malis, Retour au pays revisits Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s letters through a spare, lucid staging. Performers Alexandra Tiedemann and Juan Crespillo inhabit the returning merchant’s disorientation, while Aurélia Ansermet provides live music and sound. Bernard Héritier’s scenography and Jessy Ducatillon’s lighting shape moments of visual surprise, most poignantly a Van Gogh encounter that restores belief in the world. The piece refuses facile answers, offering theatrical lucidity and an austere emotional clarity.
In French.
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