
Housed in a 1960s building near the Geneva train station, the Théâtre Saint-Gervais is a vibrant hub for presentation of live arts, including text, performance, and multidisciplinary works. It prioritizes an immersive connection with the audience, shaping its stage and programming to foster intense engagement. The diverse lineup of around thirty performances includes established and emerging artists, showcasing a mix of creations, revivals, and international collaborations.
Written by Stéphane Bouquet, Six heures plus tard is an intimate stage performance for two performers that explores the fragile bonds between a man and a woman through poetic text, live-filmed images, spare lighting and pared-down stage presence. The piece treats silence as a shared, collective resource and recomposes itself according to each venue’s architecture and the state of the bodies, creating an unusual proximity and contemplative atmosphere.
In French.
An introspective monologue for multiple voices, La Table d’Amour is a poetic theatrical immersion inspired by a Tinos island tradition. Performed by Manon Krüttli and Jeanne De Mont, the piece follows Manon Krüttli’s journey between autobiography, fiction and dreamlike reverie. It probes questions of living together, reconciliation and the role of conviviality as an artistic gesture, creating an intimate, sensory staging that favors lyricism and shared presence.
In French.
An annual mediation project, Fête du Théâtre gathers Geneva’s community around the performing arts, showcasing contemporary and classical theatre, street spectacles, youth shows, circus and magic alongside workshops and encounters. The programme favours collaborative, colourful staging and experimental approaches, blending professional and amateur practices. Its varied formats create lively, tactile atmospheres where humour, wonder and social exchange meet, highlighting regional artistic daring and long-standing partnerships with local cultural institutions and associations.
Caroline Bernard and her team create a ‘radio-dojo’, an intimate stage where body, voice and confidence are released through practice. In this performance, Belkacem inhabits the space and invites an encounter between martial arts, personal stories and locally gathered testimonies. The piece weaves radio testimonies, music and martial-arts passages around Belkacem’s journey, showing how training, mutual aid and trust help overcome hardship. Coproduced with Swiss and French theatres.
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 Guy Cassiers and starring Valérie Dréville, this stage adaptation of Camille de Toledo’s novel blends documentary and fiction. Through photographs, letters and manuscripts, the performance traces a family’s history across generations as a man seeks rebirth amid loss. The staging mixes intimate memory, myth and collective history with a restrained visual language and careful dramaturgy, inviting a delicate, atmospheric encounter with grief, identity and transmission.
In French.
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