Globale Locale unites 12 emblematic nightlife venues across Geneva for three days of concerts, DJ sets, and cultural happenings that spotlight the city’s independent scene. Celebrating local talent and alternative culture while standing against the precarity of the arts, the festival offers everything from live bands to club nights, offbeat activities, and solidarity events—an energizing mix where partying becomes a collective, political act of support.
The Béjart Ballet Lausanne presents Hamlet, choreographed by Valentina Turcu with music by Max Richter, Cigarettes After Sex, and Muse. This powerful reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece blends physicality and metaphysics, exploring the depths of human emotion and relationships through dance, in homage to Maurice Béjart’s enduring influence.
Eugène Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” is a quintessential work of absurdist theater, depicting the nonsensical and tedious interactions between two couples, the Smiths and the Martins. The arrival of the Fire Chief and the maid Marie sparks surreal situations and unexpected outbursts, before the Smiths dismiss the unlikely visitors and return to their original monotony. This production, directed by Cyril Kaiser, features puppets by Christophe Kiss alongside actors Vincent Babel, Nicole Bachmann, Blaise Granget, and Vanessa Battistini.
This performance is part of the Scène Vagabonde Festival.
In French.
The Gurtner/Bovay/Gremaud collective showcases “La Magnificité” at Maison Saint-Gervais. This trio, consisting of Michèle Gurtner, Tiphanie Bovay-Klameth, and François Gremaud, performs a series of lively and absurd sketches that highlight a playful and purposeless blend of gestures and dialogue. Combining elements of automatic writing, surrealist games, and improvisation, their performance is naive, poetic, tender, and most importantly, hilariously engaging.
In French.
A sketch comedy delves into the various aspects of romantic relationships through misunderstandings, jealousy, awkward dates, and the ups and downs of being a couple. Amidst exaggerated emotions and absurd situations, characters provide both laughter and food for thought.
In French.
The Cie Confiture brings a lively vaudeville performance to the Salle Centrale de la Madeleine. The plot revolves around a Parisian publisher whose calm life is thrown into chaos as three illicit couples choose his apartment for their trysts. The situation escalates with the unexpected visit of a renowned and prudish author. Expect plenty of misunderstandings and guaranteed laughs!
In French.
The play “Five Days in March” by Toshiki Okada, directed by Nadim Ahmed, captures the lives of young Tokyoites in March 2003 against the backdrop of the Iraq War. A couple randomly meets and isolates themselves in a love hotel, while other aimless characters drift nearby, preoccupied with their everyday lives and uncertainties. This play portrays a generation caught between carefree living and a sense of powerlessness in the face of historical events.
In French.
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