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.
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.
Based on a true story of a man who lived thirty years alone in the forest, this poetic, metaphysical investigation probes the mystery of existence and what holds us together—or drives us apart. The piece uses silence and space to turn absence into thought, alternating contemplative moments with intense emotional presence to immerse the audience in a quietly unsettling, deeply human experience.
In French.
Insân, whose title means “human” in Arabic and etymologically “one who forgets”, is a choreography for three performers set on a floor of stone and rubble. The piece interrogates memory and the vertiginous lightness of forgetting: bodies wrench themselves from gravity or sink into it, as if laying down what they carry finally allows them to dance. Beneath the movement, the work evokes the violence of a world that erases its own traces.
Kids from 6 years old.
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