22 – 23 January

Motel Cactus

Booking Required

Directed by the company La Meute, Motel Cactus is an explosive Latin cabaret that stitches acrobatics, live music and physical theatre into a delirious, poetic spectacle. Six acrobats and three musicians from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Germany and France fuse virtuosic skill with Caribbean rhythms and absurdist humour. The staging celebrates human resilience—like a cactus, life blooms in inhospitable places—mixing dance, daring feats and vibrant ensemble work to create an experience both tender and fierce.

Place des Cinq-Continents 1,
1217 Meyrin

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Photo Credit: DR

Thursday 29 October, 20:00

Charlie Winston

Performances

Salle Communale d'Onex

Revealed in 2009 by the hit « Like a Hobo », Charlie Winston, the most francophile of British singers, presents a unique solo acoustic evening. After seventeen years with his band he strips his songs back, offering intimate, raw and tender interpretations of his best-known tracks alongside rare or never-before-played pieces and songs from his sixth album Love Ain’t Easy. The performance balances emotion and surprise, with spontaneous interactions and a contagious energy that brings the artist close to his audience.

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29 October – 31 December

La Revue Genevoise 2026

Performances

Plaine de Plainpalais

La Revue Genevoise returns for its 134th edition, blending sharp satire with music, dance and theatrical sketches. A lively ensemble navigates topical scenes that mix wit and social critique, supported by inventive choreography, musical arrangements and fluid staging. The production alternates fast-paced comedy and reflective moments, offering a polished, communal portrait of contemporary Geneva life told through song, movement and comic timing.

In French.

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28 – 31 October

Sami Lea Samira Bernath – Sous les montagnes

Performances

Pavillon ADC

Centred on Sami Bernath’s embodied memories, this performance mixes Swiss popular songs, rhythmic gestures and the traditional Löffelä spoon percussion to transform everyday motions into sound. Through repetition, deformation and rhythmic saturation, familiar motifs become permeable, revealing buried and repressed memories beneath the Swiss mountains. The staging is intimate and ritualistic, alternating fragile vocal fragments and percussive textures to probe memory and collective inheritance.

In French.

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29 October – 8 November

La Migration des cœurs

Performances

Le Poche

Adapted freely from Maryse Condé and Emily Brontë, this theatrical adaptation follows Razyé and Cathy across three generations in a post-emancipation Guadeloupe. Directed by Anne Monfort, the production probes themes of racism, passion, pride, social violence, vengeance and fatalism through a visceral, rhythmic staging. The ensemble uses sparse, evocative design and intense physical interplay to reveal how inherited trauma shapes desire and retribution.

In French.

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17 September – 18 December

Manon Bril – 300 000 ans

Performances

Théâtre de la Madeleine

Created by Manon Bril and Etienne Lautrette and directed by Théo Comby Lemaitre, this hybrid lecture-performance blends scholarly rigour with theatrical wit. Historian Manon Bril guides the audience through surprising episodes of human history, overturning assumptions with a sharp, offbeat humour and playful staging. The show mixes clear popular-science explanation, theatrical images and comic timing to reveal that nothing has “always been like this”.

In French.

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22 September – 29 November

La Demande en mariage et l’ours

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

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.

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