Sunday 3 October, 20:00

Souvenirs d’un jeune homme

Booking Required

Jean Anouilh’s Souvenirs d’un jeune homme is a tender, witty theatrical confession that traces an improbable youth from advertising to the theatre’s backstage. Performed by two virtuoso actors, the staging balances humour, poetry and subtlety, weaving anecdotes and unexpected encounters into a lively portrait of artistic passion and insouciance. The production highlights sharp writing and delicate interplay between performers, offering an intimate, humane experience of memory and theatrical longing.

In French.

Chemin du Bois-des-Arts 62,
1226 Thônex

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Photo Credit: DR

3 – 4 September

Festival de la Bâtie – How Romantic

Performances

La Comédie de Genève

Choreographer Katerina Andreou stages a raw, physical dance work that propels fourteen performers from the Norwegian company Carte Blanche into an endurance-like marathon. Drawing on the dance marathons of the Great Depression, the piece explores desire, fatigue, power and the human need for connection as bodies cling, push and exhaust themselves within a hypnotic pulse. Between collective trance, biting irony and uncontrollable vitality, the choreography stages the tension between chaos and control and our fascination with performance and intimacy.

In English and multilingual (sung parts only).

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4 – 6 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

Performances

Multiple locations

Geneva’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp offers a nomadic musical odyssey that blends fervent rhythms, sonic experimentation and a spirit of freedom. For nearly twenty years the collective has shaped a distinctive sound: layered voices, interweaving textures and songs that confront the present without succumbing to despair. Carried by an impressive constellation of brass, strings, percussion, marimbas and guitars, more than fifteen musicians create generous, mobile and intensely alive music that moves between communal celebration and joyful escape.

Friday 4 September, 22:00: La Parfumerie
Saturday 5 September, 22:00: Scène Caecilia
Sunday 6 September,22:00: cave12

Additional free performances:

Friday 4 September 18:00: Parc du Château Voltaire
Saturday 5 September 15:00: Parc Battelle – Maison de Quartier des Grands-Hutins
Saturday 5 September 18:00: Esplanade du Lignon
Sunday 6 September 13:00: Promenade Rivoire

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4 – 5 September

Zanco – 20th Anniversary Show

Performances

Directed by Yuval Dishon, Zanco’s 20th Anniversary Show revisits five emblematic creations in a mobile, immersive promenade. Performers including committee members Vlady Wagner, Micha Hersch and Cyril Lenz animate papier‑mâché ghosts, masks and puppetry, accompanied by music from POL and Guillaume Lagger and sound design by Ivan Verda. The artistic team (Stella Giuliani, Jessica Haener, Olga Andreichikova, Mehdi Duman, Dinu Corminboeuf, Oliver Robertson) reframes memory, language and myth to probe democratic crisis, fear and social fragmentation in a nocturnal, poetic atmosphere.

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3 – 6 September

Festival de la Bâtie – Vous avez les mêmes en 38 ?

Performances

Le Poche

Performed and directed by Eve Aouizerate, this incisive solo creation blends autofiction and faux stand-up to turn fairy-tale promises into a sharp satire. Using humour and precise stagecraft, Aouizerate interrogates reactionary online imaginaries and the contemporary allure of tradwives, exposing tensions between domestic idealisation and feminist inheritance. The piece mixes intimate confession, comic timing and critical observation to probe identity, boredom and the pressures shaping women’s lives.

In French.

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3 – 5 September

Festival de la Bâtie – On Emballe Bien les Choses Fragiles (Version Solo Spéciale La Bâtie)

Performances

Musée Ariana

Otis Thaïs Martin performs a solo trapeze piece that turns acrobatic balance into a metaphor for living with anxiety. On a rigging that oscillates and resists, Martin mixes aerial performance, spoken testimony and musical improvisation by Camille Garcia‑Rennes to explore exhaustion, survival strategies and the tenderness of queer kinship. Formerly associated with L’Abri, the artist transforms the stage into a political space for collective care and witness, crafting moments of tension that open onto surprising tenderness and fragile joy.

In French.

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Friday 4 September, 20:00

Lambert Wilson Sings Kurt Weill

Performances

Auditorium Ansermet

Actor and singer Lambert Wilson channels Kurt Weill’s music in an intense, elegant recital. Accompanied by the Lemanic Modern Ensemble, he revives selections from The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Lady in the Dark and other stage works, moving between Berlin cabaret textures, jubilant jazz and theatrical declamation. The performance relies on close ensemble interplay and expressive phrasing to probe themes of urban decadence, irony and longing.

In French.

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