Directed by Marcial di Fonzo Bo, this graduation production by the promo O ensemble of La Manufacture draws on the bold, visceral texts of Rodrigo García. The staging favors raw, fragmented voices and physical immediacy, exploring power, intimacy and the breakdown of social facades. The students’ ensemble work foregrounds risk-taking and rigorous stagecraft, supported by the production context of La Manufacture and collaborative institutional partners.
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.
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.
Nos voisins artificiels stages a tense, intimate theatrical exploration of human relationships in the age of technology. A focused ensemble navigates shifting boundaries between empathy and estrangement through precise physicality, fragmented dialogue and luminous stagecraft. The piece blends dark humour with moments of quiet vulnerability, relying on carefully designed lighting and minimalist sets to heighten emotional textures. Audience members are invited to witness ambiguous intimacy and the uncanny rhythms of contemporary coexistence.
In French.
An intimate lunchtime concert featuring a string quartet: Lucas Monerri (violin), Piotr Kawecki (violin), Robin Lemmel (viola) and Coralie Devars (cello), drawn from the Geneva Chamber Orchestra. The program centers on Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, ‘Death and the Maiden’, its dramatic motifs and lyrical slow movements unfolding in close-up, chamber textures. Expect concentrated interplay, quiet tension and moments of stark intimacy that invite sustained listening.
Two incandescent works meet in a programme of ardent passion and doomed desire. Janáček’s Zápisník zmizelého (The Diary of One Who Disappeared), here in Laurent Cuniot’s arrangement, stages the feverish confession of a young peasant enthralled by a gypsy; Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo (1915 version) conjures Andalusian rites, flamenco rhythms and orchestral heat. Isabelle Druet and tenor Petr Nekoranec lead the vocal drama, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève in a co-production marking de Falla’s 150th anniversary.
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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