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Created by Guillaume Cayet, Nos empereurs is a decolonial saga that plunges into the white and French presence in Benin from 1895 to today. The play follows Armand Lamarque, a French army captain turned palm-oil planter whose convictions collide with local realities and drive him toward madness. Combining family epic, historical fable and magical realism, Cayet interrogates the legacy of French colonialism and its contemporary survivals. Produced by Compagnie Le désordre des choses and La Comédie de Valence – CDN Drôme-Ardèche.

In French.

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Birds on a Wire, the duo of Rosemary Standley and Dom La Nena, reimagines timeless songs with intimacy and lightness. Moving from Pink Floyd to Boby Lapointe and from American classics to traditional songs from around the world, their third album Nuées Ardentes returns to the core of their encounter: voice and cello. Their arrangements are at once refined and raw, spare yet rich, blending erudition and tenderness to blur borders and reveal new emotional textures.

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Choreographed by Florence Caillon, Orphées draws on the Greek myth of Orpheus to probe trust and doubt. Six performers move between real and virtual worlds in a choreographed circus where dance becomes acrobatic. Blending humour and poetry, the piece examines our uncertainties in an information-saturated age, exploring how bonds of trust are made, broken and ultimately earned. The staging balances virtuosity and intimacy, inviting reflection through striking physicality and moments of lyrical absurdity.

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Three musicians in complete sympathy, their playing a single breath and vibration. Clarinetist Yom, known for reworking Jewish traditional music, explores paths from rock and electro to classical and contemporary. Joined by brothers Théo (violin) and Valentin Ceccaldi (cello), the trio dissolves boundaries between genres. Their music traces an inner quest where jazz meets Middle Eastern inflections, unfolding a dreamlike repertoire that hovers between meditation, imagination and reality.

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Singer Tartine Reverdy and her long-time band lead a leafy concert that reflects urgent contemporary challenges and celebrates respect for forests, animals and life. Surrounded by woodland sounds and handmade drawings, the ensemble blends drums, flute, accordion and balafon with layered vocal polyphony and playful humour. The performance mixes ecological commitment with intimate storytelling, transporting the audience into an organic, rhythmic soundscape where nature’s textures meet human warmth.

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Directed collectively under Antoine Courvoisier, Dégueu confronts young people’s questions about love, the body and reproduction with wit, candour and warmth. The youthful ensemble — Delphine Barut, Antoine Courvoisier, Angelo Dell’Aquila, Clea Eden and Charlotte Filou — blends humour and honesty to turn awkward curiosity into theatrical fuel. Cornélius Spaeter’s scenography, Éléonore Cassaigneau’s costumes and the lights by Gaël Chapuis support a lively staging. Presented by Cie Mokett in coproduction with Théâtre Am Stram Gram.

In French.