Les Gros patinet bien is a wildly inventive comedy featuring just two performers and 150 cardboard boxes. The show follows a plump, Shakespearean-style storyteller who narrates a chaotic European escape tale while remaining seated, and his hyperactive, silent sidekick who acts out the entire journey around him. With roller skates, scooters, planes, and even a mule, the duo creates a hilarious, high-energy performance full of physical comedy, absurdity, and imagination. This clever mix of stillness and motion earned the show the 2022 Molière Prize for Best Public Theatre.

In French.

Step through the hidden gate of this “secret garden” and wander a mosaic of micro-scenes where every player cultivates their own art of living: whispered exchanges with invisible friends, childhood fantasies re-bloomed, the inviting waft of pancakes, snippets of Racine recited under the trees, twirling young ballerinas, a disco-era Claudette who’s slipped her routine, seafaring reveries, uncanny doubles, a raw flamenco heartbeat, even a visit from Marcel Proust—all stitched together with live music into a fragrant, time-suspending refuge that celebrates the tiny, luminous epiphanies tucked inside everyday life.

In French. Ages 12 and up.

Experience the wild side of GECA! The Geneva Camerata presents one of its boldest series: the Wild Concerts. Cuban singer and flutist Yaite Ramos Rodriguez — internationally acclaimed for her project “La Dame Blanche” — joins the ensemble for a vibrant performance celebrating the music of her homeland. From salsa and mambo to rumba and Afro-Cuban jazz, embark on a musical journey through Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and Trinidad — cities where music never stops.

Actor Samuel Labarthe turns Nicolas Bouvier’s fever-drenched memoir The Scorpion-Fish into a hypnotic, miniaturist tour de force: marooned in 1950s Ceylon after a headlong road trip from Geneva through the Balkans and Afghanistan, the once-ebullient traveller spirals into tropical delirium, trading human company for buzzing insects, mirage-bright visions and mordant humour that flits between the sublime and the grotesque. Under Catherine Schaub’s finely gauged direction, Labarthe channels both the lush lyricism and the slow-burn torment of this “motionless voyage,” distilling Bouvier’s languid prose into a tactile, rejuvenating elixir that lets the audience feel every bead of sweat, jolt of wonder and sting of isolation.

In French. Ages 12 and up.

Back from the ashes like a mischievous phoenix, this stage adaptation of Hergé’s timeless comic hurls Bianca Castafiore’s shrill “Heavens, my jewels!” onto the boards and detonates a riotous, closed-door whodunnit inside the tranquil walls of Moulinsart: red herrings fly, misunderstandings snowball and Tintin’s entire gallery of eccentrics careen through a dazzling, hyper-faithful recreation of the album, where actors vanish into near-unrecognisable guises and the set itself crackles with playful theatrical sleight-of-hand—proof that some productions really do possess a magic, living soul of their own.

In French.  Ages 7 and up.