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Productions
2022-23
NATACHA KOUTCHOUMOV
& DENIS MAILLEFER
MANAGEMENT NKDM
CONTACTS
Production & tour
Julie Bordez
Head of production &
International Programming Assistant
+33 6 74 80 07 42
jbordez@comedie.ch
Emmanuelle Ossena | EPOC productions
Distribution & tour
+33 6 03 47 45 51
diffusion@comedie.ch
Edition of 17 June 2022
A theatre factory in the heart of the city Since 2017, Natacha Koutchoumov and Denis Maillefer, aka NKDM, have been running the most important theatrical institution in Geneva: a two-headed management team, consisting of an actress/director and a stage director. In the autumn of 2020, Comédie de Genève moved into a new theatre in the Eaux-Vives district. A theatrical factory in the heart of the city equipped with a 500-seat proscenium stage and a modular hall seating around 200, also with two rehearsal studios and set and costume workshops in the very heart of the building. Comédie de Genève offers a multidisciplinary and eclectic programmation: it invites local and international artistes such as tg STAN, Pippo Delbono, Yan Duyvendak, Gisèle Vienne, La Veronal, Marco Berrettini, Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexander Zeldin, La Ribot, Peeping Tom, Étienne Saglio, Cindy Van Acker, Joël Pommerat… Open to all audiences, Comédie de Genève also offers a large programme of cultural mediation to make the theatre a place of life in the heart of the city. For three years, the production department has been developing ambitious projects oriented towards contemporary creation. Comédie has become a European production centre, a place for artists, open and supportive. Invitations are extended to international and Swiss artists to work together and create at Comédie. The first of these companions are Tiago Rodrigues, Christiane Jatahy, Amir Reza Koohestani, Pascal Rambert and Krystian Lupa. Listed below are Comédie 22-23 creations that will be touring in 22-23-24 and the 21-22 projects. We look forward to welcoming you to Comédie de Genève, to meeting you on tour and to discussing possible collaborations with you. The production team of Comédie de Genève To follow our news and receive our newsletter for professionals, please contact Aline Fuchs: afuchs@comedie.ch / +41 22 708 49 03
Creation 22-23
The emigrants
An adaptation of the novel
© Laura Vanseviciene
by W. G. Sebald
KRYSTIAN LUPA
(Switzerland - Poland)
The great master of European theatre Krystian Lupa has joined Comédie de Genève for An adaptation of the novel The emigrants by W. G. Sebald
Adaptation, direction, set design and lights Krystian Lupa
a creation in June 2023. For this project, he is working with French-speaking actors and
Costumes Piotr Skiba
actresses to adapt German author W. G. Sebald’s 1992 novel The emigrants. Translated Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
into French in 1998, this book describes the life journey of characters who are forced to
expatriate. Through investigation and reminiscence, the writer dives into personal life With 9 actresses and actors (upcoming cast)
stories and memories collected to weave a common history of uprooting.
Production Comédie de Genève
The stories trace the silent existences of characters bruised by loss and exile, an inner Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris (ongoing)
wandering that leads them to suicide, or a form of death that resembles it. Combining
his own memories with meticulous investigation, collecting stories and documents Show in French
(photos, press articles, diaries) and following the footsteps of these men who all, at
one time or another, crossed his path, W. G. Sebald revives the wounds of a Europe that
Creation
disappeared in the disasters and destruction of the 20th century. These emigrants are
1st - 17 Jun. 2023 Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
portraits of a rare humanity, enhanced by the author’s delicate and melancholic writing,
from which emanates endless gentleness and empathy. Production and tour ongoing
Krystian Lupa has chosen to bring two of these stories to the stage: those of Paul Berey-
ter and Ambros Adelwarth, the author’s great-uncle who emigrated to the United States
before the First World War.
Recreation 22
Perdre son sac
PASCAL RAMBERT
DENIS MAILLEFER
(Switzerland - France)
© Niels Ackermann / Lundi 13
“Back to the beginning. A text, an actress. An actress in the centre. So there will be an
actress in the centre of a circle. About thirty/forty chairs arranged in a circle. A closed
room. The light in the room, like one of those group therapy sessions. The audience
enters and sits down. She is among them/us. And she speaks first and talks. Without
stopping. There is nothing but an ordinary room, just her own accessory, a telescopic
mop to clean windows. Her working tool which sits against a wall, and which she points to
a few times. She speaks, sometimes apologising for her tiredness, like a live confession
that blurs reality a little. As if the actress stopped and apologised for her fatigue as an Text Pascal Rambert
Direction Denis Maillefer
actress. The recreation highlights the character’s asperity and contradictions.
Artistic collaboration Cédric Leproust
It gets muddled up, goes backwards, asks – indirectly – for our help and empathy. We
are with her because we are naturally – and genuinely – with her in everything she says. With Lola Giouse
Everything she says is aimed at the ending. Be careful, she says at the end, as if to warn
us that what is happening to her – the social exclusion, the extreme confusion – Production Comédie de Genève
can also happen to us.”
Estimated duration 1h
Denis Maillefer, October 2021
First creation from 30 August to 7 September 2021 at Comédie de Genève with
La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
Recreation - light and itinerant form
In September 2019, Perdre son sac was presented at the Comédie de Genève in a 1st - 6 Nov. 2022 Comédie de Genève (Rehearsal Studio)
sophisticated set designed by Laurent Junod and Marie Bürgisser-Jacquier. More than
two years later, Denis Maillefer recreates the project and imagines a new set-up. The Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
15 - 25 Nov. 2022 Théâtre Vidy-Lausane (off-site, location to be confirmed) (CH)
show can be performed in any closed space with about forty chairs in a circle. It can be
Nov. - Dec. 2022 Grand Genève (locations to be confirmed) (CH)
played two times a day and in the public spaces of a theatre as well as in unconventional 18 - 20 January 2023 Bonlieu Scène nationale - Annecy (FR)
places that are the object of cultural mediation projects. 3 - 4 February 2023 Théâtre Le Pommier - Centre culturel neuchâtelois (CH)
Creation 22-23
Jouer son rôle
JÉRÔME RICHER
JEAN-YVES RUF
(Switzerland)
“Two brothers meet at the funeral home around the remains of their father. One has
taken over from him as head of a trading company, the other has taken the opposite
direction, he is a militant, activist, anti-capitalist. They no longer see each other, only the
death of the father has brought them together again. This vigil around the father’s body
will turn into a verbal joust, argument against argument, bad faith against bad faith.
© Olivier Roller
If the play seems to be carried by political matters and conflicting ideas – a
businessman brother opposed to his leftist sibling – the sinews of the text lie elsewhere.
It’s a brotherly fight above all, it’s about pitting yourself against another to feel who you
are, it’s about drawing and asserting your territory, it’s about hatred, but also about love
and tenderness. Like boxers who hit each other without restraint but keep upright by Text Jérôme Richer
leaning on each other. Direction Jean-Yves Ruf
Set design Fanny Courvoisier
A tense, impossible huis clos. The strength of this text lies in the twist that takes place Lights Christian Dubet
in us, readers or spectators. We leave our own preconceptions behind and move from Sound Olga Kokcharova
one point of view to the other, we find ourselves oscillating between the two brothers, Costumes Maria Muscalu
no longer knowing who is right and who is wrong. And this is no longer the question, Assistant director Maria Da Silva
as we sense an older arc, which will not be resolved with murderous retorts. Time and Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
again, despite the violence of the attacks, one senses a secret lurking in every sentence,
a blind spot. And a possible reconciliation. We’re that close. A peaceful sentence or a With Thibaut Evrard and David Gobet
moment of silence, and anything could happen.”
Production Comédie de Genève, Cie L’Oiseau à Ressort
Jean-Yves Ruf, juin 2021 Coproduction (ongoing)
Creation
17 - 29 Jan. 2023 Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
Production ongoing
On tour Based on the film Dogville by Lars von Trier
Staging, direction and adaptation Christiane Jatahy
Artistic collaboration, set and light design Thomas Walgrave
Direction of photography Paulo Camacho
Entre chien et loup
Music Vitor Araujo
Costumes Anna Van Brée
Video system Julio Parente and Charlélie Chauvel
Sound Jean Keraudren
Collaboration and coordination Henrique Mariano
Assistant director Stella Rabello
Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
Based on the film DOGVILLE by
LARS VON TRIER With Véronique Alain, Julia Bernat, Paulo Camacho, Azelyne Cartigny, Philippe Duclos, Vincent
Fontannaz, Delphine Hecquet (replacing Élodie Bordas), Viviane Pavillon, Matthieu Sampeur, Valerio Sca-
muffa
CHRISTIANE JATAHY Production Comédie de Genève
(Switzerland - Brazil) Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa,
Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne
With each project, Christiane Jatahy invents original stage sets that address issues of Lars von Trier is represented in French-speaking Europe by Marie Cécile Renauld, MCR Agence Littéraire in
boundaries, whether intimate, formal or geographical. The interweaving of Brazilian agreement with Nordiska ApS.
current events and Lars von Trier’s Dogville augurs a fertile playground for this artist Christiane Jatahy is an Associate Artist at Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Centquatre-Paris, Schauspielhaus Zürich,
Arts Emerson - Boston and Piccolo Teatro di Milano. The company Axis is sponsored by Direction régionale des
whom the Comédie de Genève has been following for three seasons.
affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, Ministère de la Culture France.
Entre chien et loup tells the story of young Graça who flees modern-day Brazil in search Duration 1h50 / Recommended age 15+ / Optional English surtitles (on request)
of a better place. A small community, all “good” people, welcomes her with open arms.
Created from 5 to 12 July 2021 at Festival d’Avignon (FR)
But the intruder quickly polarises the group’s desires, jealousies and frustrations, and
an unhealthy chain of events is set in motion which everyone becomes a part of. Life on Tour 2021-2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
the stage, which blends theatre with cinema, turns into a relentless human laboratory. 30 Sep. - 13 Oct. 2021 Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
18 Oct. 2021 Le Parvis - Scène nationale de Tarbes (FR)
The sly seeds of identity and behavioural deviances that oppress the hunted individual 21 - 22 Oct. 2021 L’Estive - Scène nationale de Foix (FR)
then begin to emerge. Looking away is a form of cowardice, but repeating history is not 5 - 6 Nov. 2021 Festival Temporada Alta - Gerona (ES)
a fatality. Graça runs away from fascism and, without realising it, throws herself into its 15 - 16 Nov. 2021 Comédie de Caen - CDN de Normandie (FR)
arms, like a being who journeys, determined, towards her tragic destiny. It could happen 20 Nov. - 4 Dec. 2021 TNP de Villeurbanne (FR)
11 - 12 Jan. 2022 CDN de Rouen (FR)
anywhere in the world, but it is happening here and now in this fictional place that looks 18 - 19 Jan. 2022 Scène nationale de Bayonne (FR)
awfully like our own reality. 25 - 26 Jan. 2022 Les Salins - Scène nationale de Martigues (FR)
2 - 4 Feb. 2022 Théâtre du Nord - CDN de Lille-Tourcoing (FR)
22 - 24 Feb. 2022 Maillon Scène européenne de Strasbourg (FR)
5 Mar. - 1 Apr. 2022 Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris (Ateliers Berthier) (FR)
5 - 6 May 2022 Scènes du Golfe - Vannes (FR)
18 - 20 May 2022 Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa (IT)
3 - 4 Jun. 2022 deSingel - Antwerp (BE)
27 -28 Jun. 2022 Athens Epidaurus Festival (GR)
11 - 15 Oct. 2022 Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes (FR)
9 - 10 Nov. 2022 Bonlieu Scène nationale - Annecy (FR)
25 - 27 Nov. 2022 CDN Madrid for Festival de Otoño (ES)
15 - 16 March 2022 Le Grand R, Scène nationale de la Roche-sur-Yon (FR)
21 March 2023 Théâtre de Cornouailles, Scène nationale de Quimper (FR)
4 - 5 May 2023 Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg, Scène européenne (FR)
© Magali Dougados
Juine 2023 in Berlin (DE) (ongoing)
On tour Freely adapted from the novel Transit by Anna Seghers
Adaptation Amir Reza Koohestani, Massoumeh Lahidji and Keyvan Sarreshteh
Text Amir Reza Koohestani and Keyvan Sarreshteh
En transit
Direction Amir Reza Koohestani
Translation Massoumeh Lahidji
Set and light design Éric Soyer
Video Phillip Hohenwarter
Sound Benjamin Vicq
Freely adapted from the novel Transit Costumes Marie Artamonoff
by Anna Seghers Assistant director Isabela De Moraes Evangelista
Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
AMIR REZA KOOHESTANI With Danae Dario, Agathe Lecomte, Khazar Masoumi, Mahin Sadri
(Switzerland - Iran)
Production Comédie de Genève
Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes,
On December 29, 2018, on his way to Santiago to attend one of his shows as part of the Fondazione Teatro Metastasio di Prato, Mehr Theatre Group, Festival d’Avignon, Maillon
Santiago A Mil festival, Amir Reza Koohestani was detained by border police for Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, Triennale Milano Teatro
several hours before being sent back to Tehran. He had overstayed, by 5 days, the 90
days allowed in the Schengen area in the last six months - due to the unexplainable fact Estimated duration 1h20 / Recommended age 15+
that he had been delivered two different visas. Multilingual show with French and English surtitles
In transit, his new creation, is based on his observations while he was detained in the Created from 23 February to 6 March 2022 at Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
transit area of Munich’s International Airport in an anonymous white space called a
“waiting room”, next to other deportees from Europe. Mahin Sadri plays Amir Reza Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
who, during his detention reads Anna Seghers’ novel Transit in order to adapt it to the 26 - 27 March 2022 Triennale di Milano (IT)
7 - 14 July 2022 Festival d’Avignon (FR)
theatre. In the “waiting room” different deportees appear - contemporary and past,
19 - 20 July 2022 GREC Festival - Barcelona (ES)
fictional and real. 5 Nov. - 1st Dec.2022 Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Ateliers Berthier) in the framework of
The general idea of the play combines personal experience with mise en abyme, various Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR)
points of view and bridges between two periods of history. Several spoken languages – 25 - 27 January 2023 Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne (FR)
2 - 4 February 2023 Teatro Metastasio di Prato (IT)
Persian, French, Portuguese, English – respond to each other, like the characters from
7 - 10 March 2023 Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes (FR)
different countries 15 - 16 March 2023 CDN Orléans - Val de Loire (FR)
© Magali Dougados
On tour
Dans la mesure
de l’impossible
TIAGO RODRIGUES
(Switzerland - Portugal)
The son of a doctor mother and a journalist father, Tiago Rodrigues has often wondered
why he chose to tell the story of the world rather than to save it by taking more concrete
action. Should we rescue the world or speak about it ? Should we try to act directly on
reality or talk about it ?
Rodrigues is an artist who is close to the Comédie de Genève and who has been very
present in recent years. To write Dans la mesure de l’impossible, he immersed himself in
international Geneva and met staff of the International Red Cross and Doctors Without
Borders. This led to a desire to look at the world through their eyes and the need to write
a show through the prism of intimacy.
Inspired by their accounts, this show exposes the dilemmas of these men and women
who come and go between troubled areas of intervention and a peaceful “home”.
Dans la mesure de l’impossible is made of stories of men and women who fight daily
for a better world, knowing that they will not change it. Capable of self-criticism and
conscious of the problematics of the humanitarian experience, they continue to buy
time before the worst.
© Magali Dougados
Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
Text and direction Tiago Rodrigues
18 - 19 Feb. 2022 CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG - Udine (IT)
Translation Thomas Resendes
24 Feb. - 5 Mar. 2022 Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes (FR)
Set design Laurent Junod, Wendy Tokuoka, Laura Fleury
10 - 11 Mar. 2022 Équinoxe - Scène nationale de Châteauroux (FR)
Music composition Gabriel Ferrandini
15 - 17 Mar. 2022 CDN Orléans - Val de Loire (FR)
Lights Rui Monteiro
25 - 26 Mar. 2022 TPR - La-Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
Sound Pedro Costa
29 - 31 Mar. 2022 CDN Besançon Franche-Comté (FR)
Costumes and artistic collaboration Magda Bizarro
6 - 8 Apr. 2022 ThéâtredelaCité - CDN Toulouse Occitanie (FR)
Assistant director Lisa Como
12 - 14 Apr. 2022 La Coursive - Scène nationale de La Rochelle (FR)
Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
29 Apr. 2022 Théâtre des Salins - Scène nationale de Martigues (FR)
4 - 6 May 2022 Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne (FR)
With Adrien Barazzone, Beatriz Brás, Baptiste Coustenoble, Natacha Koutchoumov
11 - 14 May 2022 Théâtre du Nord - CDN Lille-Tourcoing (FR)
and Gabriel Ferrandini (musician)
18 - 19 May 2022 Scènes du Golfe - Vannes (FR)
25 - 27 May 2022 Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa (IT)
Production Comédie de Genève
© Magali Dougados
17 Sep. - 14 Oct. 2022 Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Ateliers Berthier) in the framework of
Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa, Teatro
Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR)
Nacional D. Maria II - Lisbon, Équinoxe - Scène nationale de Châteauroux, CSS Teatro stabile di
19 - 22 October 2022 Théâtre des Célestins - Lyon (FR)
innovazione del FVG - Udine, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes,
15 - 16 November 2022 Malraux - Scène nationale Chambéry Savoie (FR)
Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, CDN Orléans - Val de Loire,
26 - 27 November 2022 Teatros del Canal - Madrid for Festival de Otoño (ES)
La Coursive - Scène nationale de La Rochelle
7 - 9 December 2022 Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne (FR)
14 - 15 December 2022 Espaces Pluriels - Pau (FR)
With the collaboration of the ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross and
24 - 25 January 2023 Bonlieu Scène nationale - Annecy (FR)
MSF - Doctors Without Borders
1 - 2 February 2023 Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain - Bayonne (FR)
9 February 2023 Le Préau, CDN de Normandie-Vire (FR)
Duration 2h / Recommended age 14+
16 February 2023 Théâtre du Jura - Delémont (CH)
Show in French, English and Portuguese
25 - 26 May 2023 Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Scène nationale (FR)
Surtitles in French and in English
31 May - 3 June 2023 TnBA, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (FR)
Created from 1 to 13 Feb. 2022 at Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle) 15 June 2023 La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse (FR)
© Magali DougadosOn tour
Olympia
© Magali Dougados
RÉBECCA BALESTRA
(Switzerland)
In 2019, author and performer Rébecca Balestra created a piano bar atmosphere by
combining her writing with music from the repertoire in the foyer of Comédie de Genève. Text, direction and performance Rébecca Balestra
Piano performance Grégory Regis
For her Olympia project she has collaborated with the Haute École de Musique de
With the participation of HEM - Haute École de Musique de Genève
Genève. Accompanied by a pianist, six cellists and two double bassists, Balestra follows Composition and orchestral adaptation Andrès Garcia
in the footsteps of legendary divas by telling her texts that sit on the fine line between Musical direction Antoine Marguier
derision and sentimentality. Underneath the glitter lies an end-of-party atmosphere and Musical preparation Ophélie Gaillard
underneath her leonine hair, she dreams of crystal-clear worlds and wakes up with a Lights Dinko Baresic
taste of aspirin. There is dark glamour in this intoxicating and bleeding poetry recital, Hair and make-up Katrine Zingg
like a bouquet of red roses. Costumes Ingrid Moberg
Assistant director Joël Hefti
Blurring genres, mixing prose and poetry, humour and despair, Olympia compiles
contemporary, powerfully authentic texts, presented in a sophisticated recital Production Comédie de Genève
atmosphere. Searching for truths by the simplest means, Balestra recites stories of a Coproduction La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, TPR - La Chaux-de-Fonds, CDN Besançon
divorced parent addicted to porn, a woman with a perpetual hangover and a sunset in a Franche-Comté, La Fur Compagnie, Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain - Lausanne
nursing home, among others. Sponsors Programme européen de coopération transfrontalière lnterreg France-Suisse
2014-2020 au sein du projet MP#3, Fondation Leenaards, Loterie Romande
Like the great pop songs that we listen to endlessly, the lyrics on stage are like cathartic
mirrors in which we all recognise ourselves. Duration 1h15 / Recommended age 14+
Piano version created from 22 to 25 April 2021 at TPR - La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
Orchestral version created from 3 to 5 September 2021 at Comédie de Genève with
La Bâtie - Festival de Genève (Grande Salle)
Tour 2021-2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
17 - 18 Sep. 2021 TLH - Sierre (piano version) (CH)
30 Sep. - 3 Oct. 2021 Arsenic - Lausanne (orchestral version) (CH)
26 - 28 Oct. 2021 CDN Besançon Franche-Comté (piano version) (FR)
20 Jan. 2023 Usine à Gaz - Nyon (CH)
31 March 2023 Théâtre Benno Besson - Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)On tour Text Natacha Koutchoumov with the participation of the actresses and actors
Direction Natacha Koutchoumov
Artistic collaboration and dramaturgy Arielle Meyer MacLeod
Music and sound David Scrufari
Set design Sylvie Kleiber
Lights Dominique Dardant
Summer Break &
Collaboration on lights Alessandra Domingues
Costumes Paola Mulone
Assistant set design (Après Hamlet) Fanny Courvoisier
Assistant director Samuel Perthuis
Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
Après Hamlet
With Jérôme Denis, Charlotte Dumartheray, Géraldine Dupla, Arnaud Huguenin
SUMMER BREAK
Production recreation Comédie de Genève
Production of the creation (March 2019) Cie NVK, TPR - La Chaux-de-Fonds in coproduction with
Théâtre du Loup - Genève, TLH - Sierre
A diptych freely adapted APRÈS HAMLET
Production Comédie de Genève
from Shakespeare
Duration 1h each play / Recommended age 14+
NATACHA KOUTCHOUMOV The two pieces can be performed separately or as a diptych
(Switzerland) Diptych created from 8 to 18 Sept. 2021 at Comédie de Genève with La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
(Salle Modulable)
Shakespeare is dead, long live Shakespeare! Natacha Koutchoumov focuses on the
Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
English bard and turns the spotlight on the moments just before and just after the plot,
30 - 31 March 2023 Théâtre de LIège (BE)
where the tremors and shocks of the theatrical process and the construction 23 - 25 April 2023 Comédie de Reims (FR)
of the self are nestled. CONTACT DISTRIBUTION Gabor Varga • +41 78 925 01 86 • gabor@bravobravo.net
Summer Break and Après Hamlet are two short plays presented as a diptych, like a
pocket-sized Shakespeare, to be seen separately or one after the other.
In Summer Break, four actors and actresses are casting for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In the heart of this forest, there are no trees but glass panels that overexpose to
predatory eyes. A metaphor for adolescence - torn between the desire to show off and
inhibition - the audition ordeal turns into a nightmare when embarrassment and cruelty
are unleashed in the bed of chimeras.
Après Hamlet focuses on madness and the ritual of chatting with the audience after
the show. It is the final scene of Hamlet. Applause. The performers bow. Have we missed
the beginning ? No, it all begins now. The young director is invited with his actors and
actresses to answer questions from the audience. But in the course of the discussion,
scores are settled, and secrets are revealed. Are the ghosts of Hamlet still on stage ?
© Magali Dougados
The two plays share the same actors, artistic team and duration. And a strong
inspiration: genre cinema - horror, thriller, Z series, and sci-fi.On tour Conception and text Jean-Baptiste Roybon, Véronique Doleyres, Basile Lambert
Direction Jean-Baptiste Roybon
Singing Alexis Gfeller
Lights Alexandre Bryand
Sound Xavier Weissbrodt
Mon petit pays
Video Jérôme Vernez
Drawing Alban Kakulya
Costumes Ingrid Moberg
Artistic collaboration Pascal Mayer
Assistant director Meriel Kenley
Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
C IE KOKODYNIACK
(Switzerland) With Véronique Doleyres, Basile Lambert, Aline Papin, Nicolas Roussi
Production Comédie de Genève
Coproduction Compagnie Kokodyniack
After the war and up until the 1980s, thousands of children in Switzerland were taken Sponsors Fondation Leenaards, Canton de Vaud, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Hirzel Stiftung,
away from their parents who were deemed unfit because of poverty. Placed in Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, Fondation philosophique Famille Sandoz, Ville d’Yverdon,
institutions or in farming families, the children were almost always exploited. Fonds d’aide à l’insertion professionnelle (F.A.I.P.) pour les jeunes artistes des Teintureries
The words of two of them – a happy couple, now in their eighties - meticulously Tour 2021-2022-2023 is sponsored by Corodis
collected and then reproduced to the exact breath by a quartet of performers, do
justice to living memory. The scandal explodes slowly but surely thanks to the choral and Duration 1h45 / Recommended age 14+
“documented” theatre of Kokodyniack. Language, which has become a body, stumbles,
stutters or hangs back to say, at long last, what has long been kept silent. Created from 6 to 15 October 2021 at Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
The Comédie de Genève has been following the company’s work since its creation. Tour 2021-2022
Kokodyniack work on memory. They begin by transcribing the collected speech according 10 Dec. 2021 Théâtre Benno Besson - Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
to a method of notation they have developed. They note down everything, hesitations, 17 - 18 Dec. 2021 Théâtre Le Reflet - Vevey (CH)
silences, onomatopoeia, clicks of the tongue, then they make a selection. On stage, they 21 - 22 Jan. 2022 TLH - Sierre (CH)
16 March 2023 Théâtre du Passage - Neuchâtel (CH)
reproduce the speech, precisely, but without imitating. Alone or in a group. The effect is
striking. Understated, plural and tense.
© Magali Dougados
© Magali DougadosText, direction, set design, lights and costumes Pascal Rambert
Available on tour Music Alexandre Meyer
Film Lou Rambert Preiss
Images Augustin Losserand
Artistic collaboration Frédéric Plazy
Technical coordination Alessandra Calabi
STARs
Assistant costumes Julie Delieutraz
Assistant director Estelle Bridet
Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
With Sami Bkheet, Davide Brancato, Lola Giouse, Linda Holstensson, Stéphane Klein, Gidia
Lafontaine, Makumbi Marques, Roberto Molo, Marie-Madeleine Pasquier, Marta Rodrigues,
PASCAL RAMBERT Yvette Théraulaz, Gwenaëlle Vaudin
Production Comédie de Genève
(Switzerland - France)
Duration 1h45 / Recommended age 15+
The artistic complicity between French author and director Pascal Rambert and the Creation
Comédie de Genève grows with each new creation. For STARs, he has collected the 23 Mar. - 2 Apr. 2022 Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
words of six “anonymous” men and women working in the so-called service sector doing
invisible yet essential jobs. These “stars of everyday life”, as Rambert calls them, are
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invited on stage to tell their stories in a kindly face-to-face with actors and actresses,
while in counterpoint an astrophysicist introduces us to the mysteries of the cosmos.
What we see of a star in the sky is in reality only the trace of its past. STARs is a forum
for rethinking and sometimes repairing the past through storytelling. With modesty,
without complacency or pathos, the emotion of these poetic duets strengthens the links
in our great human chain.
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COMÉDIE DE GENÈVE
Promenade Louise-Boulaz 2
Case Postale 1211 Genève 6
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