
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.
Choreographed and performed by Swiss-Iranian artist Kiyan Khoshoie, Body Electric is his first ensemble piece. The work celebrates the physical power of dance, the sharing of intimate moments and the forging of a living community. Multiple performers from diverse backgrounds move together, propelled by raw, kinetic energy and shaped by music, scenography and lighting. The choreography mixes theatricality and generosity, inviting attention to the bodies’ impulses and the collective charge they create.
Conceived, written and performed by Nicolas Heredia, La fondation du rien stages a subtle exploration of absence and enforced idleness. The piece invites audiences to collectively encounter the sensory experience of emptiness as planned activities are deliberately cancelled, creating an unexpected stretch of unoccupied time. Activations feature Mathilde Lubac-Quittet, Gaël Rigaud and Julie Savoie, and the work unfolds with a playful, quietly unsettling tone. A co-production realised with Antigel.
In French.
Directed by Maya Bösch, Norma Jeane Baker de Troie reimagines Anne Carson’s rewriting to overlap Sparta, New York and Hollywood in a fierce theatrical inquiry into power, domination and representation. Barbara Baker and Victor Roy embody multiple figures in a volatile, multilayered staging, propelled by incisive scenography and explosive physicality. Édouard Louis’s translation sharpens the text’s contemporary edge. An accessible summary in easy French is provided on the production page.
In French.
Directed by Yuval Rozman, Au Nom du Ciel continues his Quadrilogy of my land, probing the fraught ties between Israel and occupied Palestine. Inspired by the real death of Iyad Al‑Hallaq, the piece unfolds as a contemporary fable in which three birds investigate the tragedy. Combining dark comedy, sharp humour and mounting tension, the staging foregrounds questions of violence, justice and fragile hope. Performances by Cécile Fišera, Gaël Sall and Gaëtan Vourc’h shape an intimate, unsettling theatre experience.
In French.
Directed and performed by Cédric Djedje, this docu‑fiction adapts Vielleicht for audiences aged 11–19 and pursues the ghosts of colonization in urban space. Alongside performer Safi Martin‑Yé, the piece mixes narrative, dance, filmed sequences and graphic video to probe Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel and the colonial traces in its street names. The staging encourages reflection and collective mediation with the young public.
In French.
Directed by Stéphanie Aflalo and written and performed by Stéphanie Aflalo and Antoine Thiollier, this playful lecture-performance reimagines key masterpieces of classical painting. The duo uses deliberate awkwardness, image détournement and improvisational digressions to stage a tenderly iconoclastic counter-history of art. Through comic confidences and poetic flashes they probe the body in and of the work, spectatorship and artistic risk, inviting the audience into intimate complicity. The show is accessible and a simplified-language description is available.
In French.
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