12 September – 3 June

Improvised Dubbing: The Great Show

Booking Required

An improvisational troupe revoices film and television extracts live, inventing dialogue that reshapes the images on screen. Performers build characters, textures and comic timing in real time, turning familiar footage into surreal, often hilarious scenes. The creative approach blends rapid‑fire vocal play, cinematic awareness and ensemble listening, producing moments of rupture, tenderness and surprise. Alternating cast includes Eric Lecoultre, Adrien Laplana, Pauline Maitre, Nina Cachelin and others.

In French.

Salle Centrale de la Madeleine,
Rue de la Madeleine 10, 1204 Geneva

Photo Credit: Alliance Créative

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Photo Credit: Alliance Créative

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CHRÜSIMÜSI

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Directed by Eléonore Bonah and staged by scenographer Maria Clara Castioni, CHRÜSIMÜSI transforms Adelheid Duvanel’s terse, poetic fragments into a multilingual theatrical tapestry. Performers Eléonore Bonah and Maria Clara Castioni inhabit hypersensitive, marginal characters whose everyday gestures oscillate between absurdity and tenderness. Sparse staging and a careful interplay of voice and silence highlight Duvanel’s Kafkaesque intimacy, while language shifts (French, German, Italian) create a fragile, dreamlike atmosphere that balances humour and quiet despair, celebrating stubborn acts of resistance.

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27 October – 15 November

Focus Jeune Création

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Focus Jeune Création brings together a new generation of Romand artists over two weeks, presenting five bold and hybrid performances that blur theatre, performance and live art. The program explores emergent writing and stage practices— from plateau-based text to pieces rooted in the real—offering layered, often indisciplinary approaches that question formats and invent languages for a transforming world. Accompanying meetings and discussions extend the works and open insight into creative processes.

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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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28 October – 7 November

Emergentia 2026

Performances

L'Abri

Emergentia 2027 brings together the next generation of choreographers from Geneva and beyond in a two‑week festival of new performance and research. Conceived and produced by three Geneva organizations, the program juxtaposes site-specific creations, international residencies, open studios revealing works-in-progress, and embodied workshops and conversations. Performances feature artists such as Isam Abad Montalvo, Sami Lea Samira Bernath, Oscar M. Damianaki, Efthimios Moschopoulos and Soraya Leila Emery, alongside collaborative projects and emerging voices.

With PavillonADC & TU-Théâtre de L’Usine.

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17 October – 29 November

Cendrillon

Performances

Théâtre de la Madeleine

Directed by Rebecca Stella and adapted with Danielle Barthélemy, Cendrillon blends classic fairy-tale drama with manga-inspired staging. Pili Loop’s original score, Mathieu Courtaillier’s lighting and the set by Camille Ansquer shape a vivid, contemporary universe. Costumes by Alice Toutev and Sonia Bosc and choreography by Léon add playful movement and character. Anthony Surleraux’s video projections and graphics expand the tale’s visual world, pairing tradition with modern theatrical textures.

In French.

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28 October – 11 November

La Zone Nono

Performances

Théâtre des Marionnettes

Set between domestication and escape, La zone nono follows a troupe of ragged yet endearing animals seeking community and freedom. Two table puppeteers and two musicians bring to life quirky creatures through live music and songs, blending humour and poetry. The staging balances intimacy and playful invention, exploring solidarity, resilience and the pull of the wild. The show is performed in French and mixes witty storytelling with musicality and inventive puppetry.

In French.

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