Les Fabulateurs present an improvisational theater performance where the audience shapes the storyline. The show begins with your suggestions, and midway through, you propose plot twists. The chosen twist is incorporated by the performers, transforming the narrative.
In French.
Jennifer Merlyn Scherler invites you to the Death Café, a gathering inspired by Tokyo’s Maid cafés, featuring the recurring character Hadès. This haunted setting offers a delicate yet unsettling experience centered on mourning and memory, with lip-sync performances and discussions about departed friends, among other elements. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, kawaii and the macabre, this performance provides an ironic and sensitive meditation on loss and emotional connections. The event is part of the Side Quest for the Real exhibition program.
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.
The Cathedral of Geneva features three cantatas from J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, performed by the Ensemble Vocal Pierre de Lune and the Ensemble Instrumental Romand under Emmanuel Junod’s direction. Cantatas No. I, III, and VI depict the birth of Jesus, the adoration of the shepherds, and the visit of the Magi. Soloists Clémence Tilquin, Cristina Segura, Valério Contaldo, and Alexandre Beuchat will contribute to this concert, organized by the Fondation des Concerts de la Cathédrale.
Alexandre Païta presents the final piece of Lorca’s dramatic trilogy, “Blood Wedding”. This poignant and visually stunning drama portrays Andalusian peasantry through the tale of a bride who elopes with her former lover on her wedding day. Themes of honor, possession, passion, and rivalry intertwine beneath a moon symbolizing death. The play exalts the quest for freedom and love until death, set against a backdrop of scorching landscapes and wounded hearts.
In French.
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.
Gli Angeli Genève will perform Handel’s Messiah at Victoria Hall. This renowned oratorio, an annual December tradition for the ensemble, will be conducted by Stephan MacLeod and features soloists Jeanine De Bique, Alex Potter, and Samuel Boden. Celebrated for its flawless composition and numerous famous pieces, Handel’s work is an exquisite portrayal of Christ’s life and the liturgical year.
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