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2022-23
NATACHA KOUTCHOUMOV
& DENIS MAILLEFER
MANAGEMENT NKDM
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, La Ribot, Marco Berrettini, Dimitris Papaioannou, Alexander Zeldin,
Peeping Tom, Étienne Saglio, Cindy Van Acker, Sylvain Creuzevault, 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 town.
For three years, the production department has been developing ambitious projects
CONTACTS oriented towards contemporary creation. Comédie has become a European production
Production & tour 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
Julie Bordez Rambert and Krystian Lupa.
Head of production & 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
International Programming Assistant tour and to discussing possible collaborations with you.
+33 6 74 80 07 42
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Edition of 28 June 2022
Creation 22-23
The emigrants
An adaptation of the novel
by W. G. Sebald
KRYSTIAN LUPA
(Switzerland - Poland)
The great master of European theatre Krystian Lupa has joined Comédie de Genève for
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a creation in June 2023. For this project, he is working with French-speaking actors and
actresses to adapt German author W. G. Sebald’s 1992 novel The emigrants. Translated
into French in 1998, this book describes the life journey of characters who are forced to
expatriate. Through investigation and reminiscence, the narrator dives into personal life
stories and memories collected to weave a common history of uprooting.
The stories trace the silent existences of characters bruised by loss and exile, an inner
wandering that leads them to suicide, or a form of death that resembles it. Combining Based on The emigrants by W. G. Sebald
Adaptation, direction, set design and lights Krystian Lupa
his own memories with meticulous investigation, collecting stories and documents Costumes Piotr Skiba
(photos, press articles, diaries) and following the footsteps of these men who all, at one Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
time or another, crossed his path, the author-narrator revives the wounds of a Europe
that disappeared in the disasters and destruction of the 20th century. These emigrants With 9 actresses and actors (upcoming cast)
are portraits of a rare humanity, enhanced by the delicate and melancholic writing, from Production Comédie de Genève
which emanates endless gentleness and empathy. Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris (ongoing)
Krystian Lupa has chosen to bring two of these stories to the stage: those of Paul Berey- Estimated duration 4h / Show in French
ter and Ambros Adelwarth, the author’s great-uncle who emigrated to the United States
before the First World War. Creation
1 - 17 Jun. 2023 Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
Available in 2023-2024
Production and tour ongoing
Recreation 22
Perdre son sac
PASCAL RAMBERT
DENIS MAILLEFER
(Switzerland - France)
“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
© Magali Dougados
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
actress. The recreation highlights the character’s asperity and contradictions. Text Pascal Rambert
It gets muddled up, goes backwards, asks – indirectly – for our help and empathy. We Direction Denis Maillefer
Artistic collaboration Cédric Leproust
are with her because we are naturally – and genuinely – with her in everything she says.
Costumes Anna van Brée
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 – With Lola Giouse
can also happen to us.”
Production Comédie de Genève
Denis Maillefer, October 2021
Estimated duration 1h
In September 2019, Perdre son sac was presented at the Comédie de Genève in a First version created on 30 August 2021 at Comédie de Genève with La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
sophisticated set designed by Laurent Junod and Marie Bürgisser-Jacquier.
More than two years later, Denis Maillefer recreates the project and imagines a new Recreation - light and itinerant form
set-up. 1 - 6 Nov. 2022 Comédie de Genève (Rehearsal Studio)
The show can be performed in any closed space with about forty chairs in a circle. It can
Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
be played in the public spaces of a theatre as well as in unconventional places in the 15 - 17 and 23-25 Nov. 2022 Théâtre Vidy-Lausane (CH - off-site)
framework of cultural mediation projects. Nov. - Dec. 2022 locations in the Geneva region (CH)
18 - 20 January 2023 Bonlieu Scène nationale - Annecy (FR)
3 - 4 February 2023 Le Pommier - Théâtre et 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.
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.
© Olivier Roller
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
leaning on each other.
Text Jérôme Richer
A tense, impossible huis clos. The strength of this text lies in the twist that takes place Direction Jean-Yves Ruf
Set design Fanny Courvoisier
in us, readers or spectators. We leave our own preconceptions behind and move from
Lights Christian Dubet
one point of view to the other, we find ourselves oscillating between the two brothers, Sound Olga Kokcharova
no longer knowing who is right and who is wrong. And this is no longer the question, Costumes Maria Muscalu
as we sense an older arc, which will not be resolved with murderous retorts. Time and Assistant director Maria Da Silva
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
Jean-Yves Ruf, juin 2021
Creation
17 - 29 Jan. 2023 Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
Available in 2023-2024
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
Entre chien et loup
Direction of photography Paulo Camacho
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
Based on the film DOGVILLE by Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
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 Scamuffa
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,
whom the Comédie de Genève has been following for three seasons.
Arts Emerson - Boston and Piccolo Teatro di Milano. The company Axis is sponsored by Direction régionale des
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
of a better place. A small community, all “good” people, welcomes her with open arms. Duration 1h50 / Recommended age 15+ / Optional English surtitles (on request)
But the intruder quickly polarises the group’s desires, jealousies and frustrations, and
Created on 5 July 2021 at Festival d’Avignon (FR)
an unhealthy chain of events is set in motion which everyone becomes a part of. Life on
the stage, which blends theatre with cinema, turns into a relentless human laboratory. Tour 2021-2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
30 Sep. - 13 Oct. 2021 Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
The sly seeds of identity and behavioural deviances that oppress the hunted individual 18 Oct. 2021 Le Parvis - Scène nationale de Tarbes (FR)
then begin to emerge. Looking away is a form of cowardice, but repeating history is not 21 - 22 Oct. 2021 L’Estive - Scène nationale de Foix (FR)
a fatality. Graça runs away from fascism and, without realising it, throws herself into its 5 - 6 Nov. 2021 Festival Temporada Alta - Gerona (ES)
arms, like a being who journeys, determined, towards her tragic destiny. It could happen 15 - 16 Nov. 2021 Comédie de Caen - CDN de Normandie (FR)
20 Nov. - 4 Dec. 2021 TNP de Villeurbanne (FR)
anywhere in the world, but it is happening here and now in this fictional place that looks 11 - 12 Jan. 2022 CDN de Rouen (FR)
awfully like our own reality. 18 - 19 Jan. 2022 Scène nationale de Bayonne (FR)
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 - 14 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)
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4 - 5 May 2023 Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg, Scène européenne (FR)
Based on the film Dogville by Lars von Trier June 2023 Berliner Festspiele (DE - ongoing)
On tour Text and direction Tiago Rodrigues
Translation Thomas Resendes
Set design Laurent Junod, Wendy Tokuoka, Laura Fleury
Dans la mesure
Music composition Gabriel Ferrandini
Lights Rui Monteiro
Sound Pedro Costa
Costumes and artistic collaboration Magda Bizarro
Assistant director Lisa Como or Renata Antonante
de l’impossible
Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
With Adrien Barazzone, Beatriz Brás, Baptiste Coustenoble, Natacha Koutchoumov
and Gabriel Ferrandini (musician)
Production Comédie de Genève
Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa, Teatro Nacional D.
TIAGO RODRIGUES Maria II - Lisbon, Équinoxe - Scène nationale de Châteauroux, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG - Udine,
(Switzerland - Portugal) Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg -
Scène européenne, CDN Orléans - Val de Loire, La Coursive - Scène nationale de La Rochelle
The son of a doctor mother and a journalist father, Tiago Rodrigues has often wondered With the collaboration of the ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross
why he chose to tell the story of the world rather than to save it by taking more concrete and MSF - Doctors Without Borders
action. Should we rescue the world or speak about it ? Should we try to act directly on
Duration 2h / Recommended age 14+ / Show in French, English and Portuguese / Surtitles in French and English
reality or talk about it ?
Created on 1 February 2022 at Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
To write Dans la mesure de l’impossible, Rodrigues immersed himself in international
Geneva and met staff of the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. This Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
led to the need to write a show through the prism of intimacy. Inspired by their accounts, 18 - 19 Feb. 2022 CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG - Udine (IT)
this show exposes the dilemmas of these men and women who come and go between 24 Feb. - 5 Mar. 2022 Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes (FR)
10 - 11 Mar. 2022 Équinoxe - Scène nationale de Châteauroux (FR)
troubled areas of intervention and a peaceful “home”. Dans la mesure de l’impossible is 15 - 17 Mar. 2022 CDN Orléans - Val de Loire (FR)
made of stories of men and women who fight daily for a better world, knowing that they 25 - 26 Mar. 2022 TPR - La-Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
will not change it. Capable of self-criticism and conscious of the problematics of the 29 - 31 Mar. 2022 CDN Besançon Franche-Comté (FR)
humanitarian experience, they continue to buy time before the worst. 6 - 8 Apr. 2022 ThéâtredelaCité - CDN Toulouse Occitanie (FR)
12 - 14 Apr. 2022 La Coursive - Scène nationale de La Rochelle (FR)
29 Apr. 2022 Théâtre des Salins - Scène nationale de Martigues (FR)
4 - 6 May 2022 Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne (FR)
11 - 14 May 2022 Théâtre du Nord - CDN Lille-Tourcoing (FR)
18 - 19 May 2022 Scènes du Golfe - Vannes (FR)
25 - 27 May 2022 Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa (IT)
17 Sep. - 14 Oct. 2022 Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Ateliers Berthier)
in the framework of Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR)
19 - 22 Oct. 2022 Théâtre des Célestins - Lyon (FR)
15 - 16 Nov. 2022 Malraux - Scène nationale Chambéry Savoie (FR)
26 - 27 Nov. 2022 Teatros del Canal - Madrid for Festival de Otoño (ES)
6 - 9 Dec. 2022 Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne (FR)
14 - 15 Dec. 2022 Espaces Pluriels - Pau (FR)
24 - 25 Jan. 2023 Bonlieu Scène nationale - Annecy (FR)
1 - 2 Feb. 2023 Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain - Bayonne (FR)
9 Feb. 2023 Le Préau, CDN de Normandie-Vire (FR)
16 Feb. 2023 Théâtre du Jura - Delémont (CH)
17 - 19 March 2023 National Theatre - Taipei (TW)
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25 - 26 May 2023 Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Scène nationale (FR)
31 May - 3 June 2023 TnBA, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (FR)
15 June 2023 La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse (FR)
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
Music design Benjamin Vicq
Costumes Marie Artamonoff
Assistant director Isabela De Moraes Evangelista
Freely adapted from the novel Transit Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
by Anna Seghers
With Danae Dario, Agathe Lecomte, Khazar Masoumi, Mahin Sadri
Production Comédie de Genève
AMIR REZA KOOHESTANI Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes, Fondazione
(Switzerland - Iran) Teatro Metastasio di Prato, Mehr Theatre Group, Festival d’Avignon, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène
européenne, Triennale Milano Teatro
On December 29, 2018, on his way to Santiago to attend one of his shows as part of the Estimated duration 1h20 / Recommended age 15+ / Multilingual show with French and English surtitles
Santiago A Mil festival, Amir Reza Koohestani was detained by border police for
several hours before being sent back to Tehran. He had overstayed, by 5 days, the 90 Created on 23 February 2022 at Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
days allowed in the Schengen area in the last six months - due to the unexplainable fact
Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
that he had been delivered two different visas. 26 - 27 March 2022 Triennale di Milano (IT)
7 - 14 July 2022 Festival d’Avignon (FR)
In transit is based on his observations while he was detained in the transit area of
19 - 20 July 2022 GREC Festival - Barcelona (ES)
Munich’s International Airport in an anonymous white space called a “waiting room”, next 5 Nov. - 1st Dec. 2022 Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (Ateliers Berthier)
to other deportees from Europe. Mahin Sadri plays Amir Reza who, during his detention in the framework of Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR)
reads Anna Seghers’ novel Transit in order to adapt it to the theatre. In the “waiting 25 - 27 Jan. 2023 Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne (FR)
2 - 5 Feb. 2023 Teatro Metastasio di Prato (IT)
room” different deportees appear - contemporary and past, fictional and real.
7 - 10 March 2023 Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes (FR)
The play combines personal experience with mise en abyme, various points of view 15 - 16 March 2023 CDN Orléans - Val de Loire (FR)
and bridges between two periods of history. Several spoken languages – Persian,
French, Portuguese, English – respond to each other, like the characters from different
countries.
© Magali Dougados
On tour
Olympia
RÉBECCA BALESTRA
(Switzerland)
© Magali Dougados
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.
For her Olympia project she has collaborated with the Haute École de Musique de
Genève. Accompanied by a pianist, six cellists and two double bassists, Balestra follows
in the footsteps of legendary divas by telling her texts that sit on the fine line between
derision and sentimentality. Underneath the glitter lies an end-of-party atmosphere and Text, direction and performance Rébecca Balestra
underneath her leonine hair, she dreams of crystal-clear worlds and wakes up with a Piano performance Grégory Regis
With the participation of HEM - Haute École de Musique de Genève
taste of aspirin. There is dark glamour in this intoxicating and bleeding poetry recital, Composition and orchestral adaptation Andrès Garcia
like a bouquet of red roses. Musical direction Antoine Marguier
Musical preparation Ophélie Gaillard
Blurring genres, mixing prose and poetry, humour and despair, Olympia compiles Lights Dinko Baresic
contemporary, powerfully authentic texts, presented in a sophisticated recital Hair and make-up Katrine Zingg
atmosphere. Searching for truths by the simplest means, Balestra recites stories of a Costumes Ingrid Moberg
divorced parent addicted to porn, a woman with a perpetual hangover and a sunset in a Assistant director Joël Hefti
nursing home, among others. Production Comédie de Genève
Coproduction La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, TPR - La Chaux-de-Fonds, CDN Besançon Franche-Comté,
Like the great pop songs that we listen to endlessly, the lyrics on stage are like cathartic
La Fur Compagnie, Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain - Lausanne
mirrors in which we all recognise ourselves. Sponsors Programme européen de coopération transfrontalière lnterreg France-Suisse 2014-2020 au sein
du projet MP#3, Fondation Leenaards, Loterie Romande
Duration 1h15 / Recommended age 14+
Piano version created on 22 April 2021 at TPR - La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
Orchestral version created on 3 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 (piano version) (CH)
31 March 2023 Théâtre Benno Besson - Yverdon-les-Bains (piano version) (CH)
On tour Freely adapted from Shakespeare
Text Natacha Koutchoumov with the participation of the actresses and actors
Direction Natacha Koutchoumov
Summer Break &
Artistic collaboration and dramaturgy Arielle Meyer MacLeod
Music and sound David Scrufari
Set design Sylvie Kleiber
Lights Dominique Dardant
Après Hamlet
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
With Jérôme Denis, Charlotte Dumartheray, Géraldine Dupla, Arnaud Huguenin
A diptych freely adapted SUMMER BREAK
from Shakespeare Production recreation Comédie de Genève
Production of the creation (March 2019) Cie NVK, TPR - La Chaux-de-Fonds
Coproduction Théâtre du Loup - Genève, TLH - Sierre
NATACHA KOUTCHOUMOV
(Switzerland) APRÈS HAMLET
Production Comédie de Genève
Shakespeare is dead, long live Shakespeare! Natacha Koutchoumov focuses on the Duration 1h each play / Recommended age 14+
English bard and turns the spotlight on the moments just before and just after the plot, The two pieces can be performed separately or as a diptych
where the tremors and shocks of the theatrical process and the construction Diptych created on 8 Sept. 2021 at Comédie de Genève with La Bâtie - Festival de Genève (Salle Modulable)
of the self are nestled.
Tour 2022-2023 / available in 2023-2024
Summer Break and Après Hamlet are two short plays presented as a diptych, like a 30 - 31 March 2023 Théâtre de Liège (BE)
pocket-sized Shakespeare, to be seen separately or one after the other. 23 - 25 April 2023 Comédie de Reims (FR)
In Summer Break, four actors and actresses are casting for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. CONTACT DISTRIBUTION Gabor Varga • +41 78 925 01 86 • gabor@bravobravo.net
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 ?
The two plays share the same actors, artistic team and duration. And a strong
inspiration: genre cinema - horror, thriller, Z series, and sci-fi.
© Magali DougadosOn tour Conception and text Jean-Baptiste Roybon, Véronique Doleyres, Basile Lambert
Direction Jean-Baptiste Roybon
Singing Alexis Gfeller
Mon petit pays
Lights Alexandre Bryand
Sound Xavier Weissbrodt
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
With Véronique Doleyres, Basile Lambert, Aline Papin, Nicolas Roussi
Production Comédie de Genève
C IE KOKODYNIACK Coproduction Compagnie Kokodyniack
(Switzerland) Sponsors Fondation Leenaards, Canton de Vaud, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Hirzel Stiftung, Fondation
Hans Wilsdorf, Fondation philosophique Famille Sandoz, Ville d’Yverdon, Fonds d’aide à l’insertion
professionnelle (F.A.I.P.) pour les jeunes artistes des Teintureries
After the war and up until the 1980s, thousands of children in Switzerland were taken
away from their parents who were deemed unfit because of poverty. Placed in Tour 2021-2022-2023 is sponsored by Corodis
institutions or in farming families, the children were almost always exploited.
Duration 1h45 / Recommended age 14+
The words of two of them – a happy couple, now in their eighties - meticulously
collected and then reproduced to the exact breath by a quartet of performers, do Created on 6 October 2021 at Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
justice to living memory. The scandal explodes slowly but surely thanks to the choral and
Tour 2021-2022 / available in 2023-2024
“documented” theatre of Kokodyniack. Language, which has become a body, stumbles, 10 Dec. 2021 Théâtre Benno Besson - Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
stutters or hangs back to say, at long last, what has long been kept silent. 17 - 18 Dec. 2021 Théâtre Le Reflet - Vevey (CH)
21 - 22 Jan. 2022 TLH - Sierre (CH)
The Comédie de Genève has been following the company’s work since its creation. 16 March 2023 Théâtre du Passage - Neuchâtel (CH)
Kokodyniack work on memory. They begin by transcribing the collected speech according
to a method of notation they have developed. They note down everything, hesitations,
silences, onomatopoeia, clicks of the tongue, then they make a selection. On stage, they
reproduce the speech, precisely, but without imitating. Alone or in a group. The effect is
striking. Understated, plural and tense.
© Magali Dougados
© Magali DougadosAvailable on tour Text, direction, set design, lights and costumes Pascal Rambert
Music Alexandre Meyer
Film Lou Rambert Preiss
STARs
Images Augustin Losserand
Artistic collaboration Frédéric Plazy
Technical coordination Alessandra Calabi
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 performed by Audrey Bonnet, Stéphane
Klein, Gidia Lafontaine, Makumbi Marques, Roberto Molo, Marie-Madeleine Pasquier, Marta Rodrigues,
Yvette Théraulaz, Gwenaëlle Vaudin
Production Comédie de Genève
PASCAL RAMBERT
(Switzerland - France) Duration 1h45 / Recommended age 15+
Created on 23 March 2022 at Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
The artistic complicity between French author and director Pascal Rambert and the
Comédie de Genève grows with each new creation. For STARs, he has collected the Available on tour
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
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.
© Magali Dougados2022-2023 season at Comédie de Genève
The Sheep Song Le Grand Cahier La bibliothèque de Mes frères L’amour fou (du théâtre) Une mort dans
FC BERGMAN
26 – 28.08.2022
VALENTIN ROSSIER
based on Le Grand Cahier by
ma grand-mère ARTHUR
NAUZYCIEL
NICOLAS ZLATOFF la famille
TATJANA PESSOA freely adapted from L’Amour fou ALEXANDER
Agota Kristof
text by Pascal Rambert by Jacques Rivette and from The ZELDIN
04 – 09.10.2022 25 – 27.11.2022
12 – 15.01.2023 Seagull by Anton Tchekhov
Encantado 08 – 19.02.2023
31.03 – 06.04.2023
Coproduction
LIA RODRIGUES Coproduction
01 – 02.09.2022 Le Tartuffe ou Pieces of a Woman
l’Hypocrite Jouer son rôle
(Cząstki kobiety) AMORE
Los años
IVO VAN HOVE
text by Molière, with the troupe KORNÉL
JEAN-YVES RUF
Dark was the night
text by Jérôme Richer PIPPO DELBONO
MARIANO of the Comédie-Française MUNDRUCZÓ / n
EMMANUEL
17 – 29.01.2023 u ct i o 26 – 30.04.2023
PENSOTTI / 13 – 15.10.2022
TR WARSZAWA P ro d é d i e MEIRIEU
C o m Coproduction
GRUPO MAREA text by Kata Wéber 15 – 19.02.2023
08 – 10.09.2022 28.11 – 02.12.2022 Coproduction
Perdre son sac My Epifunny
DENIS MAILLEFER *MELK PROD. / MATRICIDE
Platonov text by Pascal Rambert
DIEstinguished MARCO VIRUS CATHERINE
MATHIAS 01 – 06.11.2022 n BERRETTINI
u ct i o YAN DUYVENDAK TRAVELLETTI
BROSSARD / P ro d é d i e LA RIBOT
Co m 26 – 29.01.2023 03 – 13.05.2023
in collaboration with Kaedama &
COLLECTIF CCC 09 – 11.12.2022 Coproduction Philippe Cano Coproduction
based on Platonov by
Anton Tchekhov
BB100. Tribute Coproduction
01 – 05.03.2023
17 – 25.09.2022 to Benno Besson Coproduction
Coproduction PHILIPPE LOVETRAIN2020 IRINA
MACASDAR Les Frères Karamazov EMANUEL GAT MARIKA
& CARLO BRANDT SYLVAIN
Touch Isolation 03 – 06.11.2022 CREUZEVAULT
03 – 04.02.2023 Contes et légendes DREISTADT
& SIMON GUÉLAT
MARCEL SCHWALD Coproduction based on Fedor Dostoïevski JOËL POMMERAT
19 – 27.05.2023
& CHRIS 16 – 18.12.2022 08 – 18.03.2023
LEUENBERGER
Vers l’Oiseau vert Le nom des choses Coproduction
21 – 24.09.2022
MURIEL IMBACH /
COLLECTIF BPM
LA BOCCA DELLA Les émigrants
© Magali Dougados
freely adapted from L’Oiseau LUNA KRYSTIAN LUPA
Opening Night vert by Benno Besson, based on
Carlo Gozzi
03 – 12.02.2023 based on W. G. Sebald
LA VERONAL Coproduction u ct i o
n
28.09 – 01.10.2022 09 – 20.11.2022 01 – 17.06.2023 P ro d é d i e
Com
Coproduction© Niels Ackermann / Lundi13
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Case Postale 1211 Genève 6
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