Saturday 10 October, 16:30

Composing and Painting as Women: Shared Struggles?

Booking Required

Presented as a musical guided tour, this performance traces a path through museum collections where works by women composers converse with paintings created by women of the same era. Performed in the galleries by harpist Laudine Dard, cellist Clément Dami and soprano Amelia Feuer, the programme weaves voice and strings into a delicate, resonant soundscape that animates the exhibits. Intimate pacing and attentive listening reveal intertwined destinies of overlooked creators, offering reflective and sensory encounters. Presented within the Festival Les Inoubliables.

In French.

Rue Charles-GALLAND 2,
1206 Genève

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Photo Credit: Giona Mottura

27 August – 18 October

Scène Vagabonde Festival 2026

Performances

Théâtre Cæcilia

Scène Vagabonde’s seventh edition brings a compact program of contemporary theatre and music, presenting three contrasting stage works — “Par le bout du nez”, “Quadrille” and “Prima facie” — alongside a concert by Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp as part of La Bâtie-Festival de Genève. Across intimate stagings the festival favors inventive direction, close ensemble interplay and a balance of wit and intensity, offering encounters that privilege physical presence, tonal variety and rigorous dramaturgy.

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9 – 11 October

La Peau Douce

Performances

L'Abri

Jaune is a fresh stage piece created and performed by recent graduates Mathis Josselin and Gabrielle Pialoux. This first collaboration explores the many faces of the colour yellow — joy, friendship, tenderness, desire and its more ambivalent edges — with an intimate, playful and sincere theatrical language. The creators blend minimal staging and tactile gestures to produce a concise, evocative hour of shared emotion and quiet humour.

In French. Created for the Fête du théâtre 2026.

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6 – 18 October

Les 10 petites anarchistes

Performances

Théâtre du Loup

Directed by Fanny Brunet and Carole Schafroth, this theatrical adaptation of Daniel de Roulet’s novel follows ten young women who emigrate to Patagonia to found an egalitarian anarchist community. Using object theatre, the production blends storytelling, projected images and reflective passages to probe anarchist utopias, working-class conditions, migration and the marginalised role of women in history. The staging is intimate and inventive, inviting thought and emotion through tactile imagery and poetic gesture.

In French.

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25 September – 10 October

Quoiqu’il arrive. Respire.

Performances

Théâtre du Loup

Written by Julie Gilbert and directed by Lou Ciszewski, Quoiqu’il arrive. Respire. follows Joana, a thirty-something MMA teacher running exclusively female classes. After a lost fight and an injury, she reflects on what it means to fight and to stand up as a woman in today’s society. The piece blends physical combat and metaphorical struggle, exploring how women claim space, resist assigned roles and sustain presence. Margot Le Coultre performs in this Loup hors les murs production.

In French.

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25 September – 18 October

La Ménagerie de verre

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

For his final production as a theatre director, Jean Liermier revisits Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical classic about memory, longing and family. Set in the 1930s American South, the staging gathers a company around Laura, here embodied by Aurélia Thierrée, with Cyprien Colombo, David Gobet and Clotilde Mollet completing the ensemble. Liermier’s direction emphasises fragile interiors and poetic movement, offering a liberating, weightless atmosphere that balances tenderness and uneasy nostalgia.

In French.

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Thursday 10 October, 20:00

Gnocchi

Performances

Les Caves Versoix

Set in a domestic kitchen, Gnocchi stages an intimate encounter between mother and son as they prepare a meal. The performance weaves memory and everyday gestures into a subtle documentary-theatre fabric, where languages, cultures and temporalities overlap. Between salon and kitchen, echoes of past and future surface through minimalist staging, fragile rhythms and attentive physicality, offering a tender reflection on identity, migration and family life.

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