The Grütli defines itself as a “center for the production and dissemination of the performing arts.” It offers a rich tapestry of live performances, spanning theater, dance, and local artists’ showcases. As a contemporary theater, it concentrates on current themes and local narratives, serving as a lively hub for contemporary theater. Additionally, the Grütli houses a cinema and a café.
Directed by Gabriel Álvarez, Le Repas revives two flagship pieces from his company’s repertoire for the 40th anniversary of Studio d’Action Théâtrale and pays homage to playwright Valère Novarina. A cosmogonic feast staged with the audience at table, the performance devours the world through ritual, poetry and corporeal presence. It examines human voracity, collective memory and the fate of what we ingest, offering a sensorial, intimate and occasionally brutal theatrical journey.
In French.
Told as a solo performance, this piece follows a woman as she remembers the films that shaped her life and blurs the line between cinema and memory. Through references to science-fiction sagas and cinematic archetypes — the woman-soldier, the survivor, the reluctant mother — the show probes identity, fear of change and the ways stories migrate from screen to skin. Sparse staging and intimate narration create a haunting, introspective atmosphere.
In French.
Set within a witty cabaret, this solo performance follows a master of ceremonies who moves from bar‑room philosophy to intimate confessions. Blending stand‑up, songs and theatrical provocation, the show slips into the places that creak, pushing against social norms and using transgression to question moral strictures. The staging favors sharp comic timing, raw vulnerability and musical interludes to unsettle and disarm the audience while opening space for reflection.
In French. Adults (16+)
Four performers embody testimonies from different generations in Sept, situated at the crossroads of dance and film. Between intimate confidences and tender tableaux, the piece examines how age shapes us and stages a delicate exploration of what growing older means, revealing a shared humanity. The staging shifts between projected images and live bodies, weaving visual and physical layers to create an experience that is both poetic and unsettling.
Four performers create three encounters in scenographies borrowed from other artists for the evening. Each time a new improvised story unfolds, revisiting the decor of an existing show and suggesting that everything might have been written beforehand. Performers discover a set they know only by its title, then immediately improvise a piece shaped solely by the stage space. Each improvisation is followed by a post-show discussion (bord de scène).
In French.
Futur(s) stages power struggles as a political and human fresco that holds a sharp mirror to our times. On a flexible set, scale models and puppets converse with contemporary projections, blending comedy and tragedy across courtly heights and urban depths. The piece interrogates legitimacy, chaos and the search for identity through epic, crisis‑rooted staging that is simultaneously intimate and panoramic, confronting past and present with uncompromising theatricality.
In French.
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