La Comédie de Genève

La Comédie de Genève

Situated in a recently constructed space above the new Gare des Eaux-Vives, La Comédie de Genève is a distinguished theatrical institution housing two theaters equipped with high-quality technical facilities. It hosts a wide range of performances, from classical to contemporary works, and is not limited to theater alone, often featuring dance, conferences, workshops, and collaborations with festivals.

Esplanade Alice-Bailly 1,
1207 Genève

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30 September – 3 October

Choreographed by Thomas Hauert and performed by three dancers from ZOO and three from Platform K, Where Is Everybody? explores a shared, non-hierarchical stage language rooted in improvisation and mutual gaze. The piece invites performers and spectators to dance, look and reposition themselves through moments of unpredictability, creativity and embodied presence. Sparse staging and responsive interactions foreground the living immediacy of movement, producing an atmosphere at once intimate, playful and searching.

3 – 4 October

Created and performed by Anne-Sophie Turion, Grandeur Nature is an audio-guided promenade that lets listeners slip into the intimate lives of strangers. Wearing headphones, the audience follows a voice-over that transforms ordinary streets, parking lots and public gardens into a theatrical, subtly augmented reality. Real residents become the protagonists of a narrative woven from their own stories, producing a delicate, poetic exploration of the everyday and the hidden resonances of urban life.

In French.

8 – 14 October

Directed by Alexander Zeldin, The Other Place is a contemporary reading of Antigone that carves a tragic family drama out of everyday life. On the anniversary of their father’s death, two estranged sisters confront memories, renovation works and an uncle determined to move on. With Jerry Killick among the cast and a strikingly realistic scenography, the production exposes hidden violences, irreconcilable trajectories and raw emotional fractures in a finely observed, tense staging.

In English.

Friday 17 October, 23:00

Festival Electron, a cornerstone of Switzerland’s electronic cultures for over twenty years, presents a nocturnal immersive experience that transforms performance spaces into expansive dancefloors. The programme balances cutting‑edge DJs and live electronic artists, blending dense rhythmic sequences with immersive visual design and lighting. Expect sustained pulses, spatial soundscapes and a collective, high-energy atmosphere that prioritizes sonic depth and club-like continuity. The artistic focus is on rhythm, texture and sensory immersion.

27 October – 15 November

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.

20 – 25 November

Directed by Célie Pauthe and adapted from Mathieu Belezi’s novel, C’était notre terre is a five‑performer theatre piece that stages the collapse of a family in northern Algeria during the war of independence. Kamel Khélif’s paintings infuse the mise en scène, confronting the violent logics of colonial rule. The ensemble navigates memory, rupture and generational trauma through a choral narrative performed in French and Kabyle, with French surtitles.

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