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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, 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
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 recently created. We look forward to welcoming you to Comédie de Genève, to
International Programming Assistant meeting you on tour and to discussing possible collaborations with you.
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Distribution & tour
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Edition of 2 February 2022
Creation 22
On tour 22-23
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
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
Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa, Teatro
Nacional D. Maria II - Lisbon, Équinoxe - Scène nationale de Châteauroux, CSS Teatro stabile di Tour 2022-2023
innovazione del FVG - Udine, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes, 17 Sep. - 14 Oct. 2022 Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris (Ateliers Berthier) in the framework
Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne, CDN Orléans - Val de Loire, of Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR)
La Coursive - Scène nationale de La Rochelle ongoing
With the collaboration of the ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross and
MSF - Doctors Without Borders
Duration 2h
Recommended age 14+
Show in French, English and Portuguese
Surtitles in French and in English
Created from 1 to 13 Feb. 2022 at Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
© Magali Dougados
Creation 22
On tour 22-23
En transit
© Laetitia Vançon
Freely adapted from the novel Transit
by Anna Seghers
AMIR REZA KOOHESTANI Freely adapted from the novel Transit by Anna Seghers
(Switzerland - Iran) Adaptation Amir Reza Koohestani, Massoumeh Lahidji and Keyvan Sarreshteh
Text Amir Reza Koohestani and Keyvan Sarreshteh
Direction Amir Reza Koohestani
Translation Massoumeh Lahidji
Set and light design Éric Soyer
On December 29, 2018, on his way to Santiago to attend one of his shows as part of the Video Phillip Hohenwarter
Santiago A Mil festival, Amir Reza Koohestani was detained by border police for Sound Benjamin Vicq
several hours before being sent back to Tehran. He had overstayed, by 5 days, the 90 Costumes Marie Artamonoff
days allowed in the Schengen area in the last six months - due to the unexplainable fact Assistant director Isabela De Moraes Evangelista
that he had been delivered two different visas. Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
In transit, his new creation, is based on his observations while he was detained in the With Danae Dario, Agathe Lecomte, Khazar Masoumi, Mahin Sadri
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 Production Comédie de Genève
who, during his detention reads Anna Seghers’ novel Transit in order to adapt it to the Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes, CSS
Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG - Udine, Fondazione Teatro Metastasio di Prato, Mehr
theatre. In the “waiting room” different deportees appear - contemporary and past,
Theatre Group, Festival d’Avignon, Triennale Milano Teatro
fictional and real.
The general idea of the play combines personal experience with mise en abyme, various Estimated duration 1h20
points of view and bridges between two periods of history. Several spoken languages – Recommended age 12+
Multilingual show with French and English surtitles
Persian, French, Portuguese, English – respond to each other, like the characters from
different countries Creation
23 Feb. - 6 Mar. 2022 Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
Tour 2022-2023
26 - 27 March 2022 Triennale di Milano (IT)
19 - 20 July 2022 Grec Festival - Barcelona (ES)
10 Nov. - 3 Dec. 2022 Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris
2 - 4 February 2023 Teatro Metastasio di Prato (IT)
9 - 10 February 2023 CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG - Udine (IT)
22 - 31 March 2023 Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes (FR)
ongoing
Text, direction, set design, lights and costumes Pascal Rambert
Creation 22 Music Alexandre Meyer
Available on tour 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 Davide Brancato, Sami Bkheet, Audrey Bonnet, Lola Giouse, Stéphane Klein,
Gidia Lafontaine, Makumbi Marques, Roberto Molo, Marie-Madeleine Pasquier,
PASCAL RAMBERT Marta Rodrigues, Yvette Théraulaz, Gwenaëlle Vaudin
(Switzerland - France) Production Comédie de Genève
Duration 1h45
The artistic complicity between French author and director Pascal Rambert and the Recommended age 15+
Comédie de Genève grows with each new creation. For STARs, he has collected the
words of six “anonymous” men and women working in the so-called service sector doing Creation
invisible yet essential jobs. These “stars of everyday life”, as Rambert calls them, are 23 Mar. - 2 Apr. 2022 Comédie de Genève (Salle Modulable)
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. Available on tour
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 Dougados
Recreation 22
Available on tour
Perdre son sac
PASCAL RAMBERT
DENIS MAILLEFER
(Switzerland - France)
©Niels Ackermann
“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
actress. The recreation highlights the character’s asperity and contradictions.
Direction Denis Maillefer
It gets muddled up, goes backwards, asks – indirectly – for our help and empathy. We Artistic collaboration Cédric Leproust
are with her because we are naturally – and genuinely – with her in everything she says.
Everything she says is aimed at the ending. Be careful, she says at the end, as if to warn With Lola Giouse
us that what is happening to her – the social exclusion, the extreme confusion –
can also happen to us.” Production Comédie de Genève
Denis Maillefer, October 2021 Estimated duration 1h
First creation from 30 August to 7 September 2021 at Comédie de Genève with
La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
In September 2019, Perdre son sac was presented at the Comédie de Genève in a Recreation - light and itinerant form
sophisticated set designed by Laurent Junod and Marie Bürgisser-Jacquier. More than Nov. 2022 Comédie de Genève (Rehearsal Studio)
two years later, Denis Maillefer recreates the project and imagines a new set-up. The
show can be performed in any closed space with about forty chairs in a circle. It can be
Available on tour
played in the public spaces of a theatre as well as in unconventional places that are the
Possibility to play two times a day
object of cultural mediation projects.
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
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
in us, readers or spectators. We leave our own preconceptions behind and move from Set design Fanny Courvoisier
one point of view to the other, we find ourselves oscillating between the two brothers, Lights Christian Dubet
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
Creation 22-23
Creation 2023
KRYSTIAN LUPA
© Laura Vanseviciene
(Switzerland - Poland)
Master of European theater, Krystian Lupa joins Comédie de Genève for a
French-language creation. He dreams of staging Eleutheria, the first play written in
French by Samuel Beckett in the late 1940’ and published only after his death. It has
Direction, set design and lights Krystian Lupa
never been performed on stage; we have requested the authorisation to use the text. Artistic collaboration Lukasz Twarkowski
The cast will be composed of eight actresses and actors working between France and Costumes Piotr Skiba
Switzerland.
With 8 actresses and actors (upcoming cast)
“For some years now, since reading Samuel Beckett’s Eleutheria, my fascination with
this text has endured. Probably no other drama is so strongly and persistently anchored Production Comédie de Genève
in my imagination, as a shocking image of the world, a sharp vision of humankind in the Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Le Parvis - Scène nationale de Tarbes
manifest and hidden spheres, and a theatre project that remains telling in the (ongoing)
phenomenal orchestration of two simultaneous planes, creating an absurd
counterpoint. This is a different Beckett from his later works, which have now become Show in French
avant-garde theatre classics, staged and performed by hundreds of successors. In this
context, Eleutheria sounds incredibly topical: in the cultural and social crisis we are Creation
experiencing in Europe today, this text becomes an open, as yet untrodden path towards Jun. 2023 Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
the mystery of the conditio humana. It shakes up the image of humankind - beings lost
in social and cultural hypocrisy. I have the irrepressible feeling that I hold the key to this Production and tour ongoing
text, and I even regret that it has remained dormant until now. Eleutheria could open up
new avenues and could show a different, new and shocking Beckett. I promise to wander
faithfully through this labyrinth.”
Krystian Lupa, janvier 2022
On tour 22-23 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, Élodie Bordas, Paulo Camacho, Azelyne Cartigny, Philippe Duclos,
Vincent Fontannaz, Viviane Pavillon, Matthieu Sampeur, Valerio Scamuffa
Production Comédie de Genève
CHRISTIANE JATAHY Coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe - Paris, Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa,
(Switzerland - Brazil) Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène européenne
Tour 2021-22 organised with the support of Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture
With each project, Christiane Jatahy invents original stage sets that address issues of
boundaries, whether intimate, formal or geographical. The interweaving of Brazilian Lars von Trier is represented in French-speaking Europe by Marie Cécile Renauld, MCR Agence Littéraire in
current events and Lars von Trier’s Dogville augurs a fertile playground for this artist agreement with Nordiska ApS.
whom the Comédie de Genève has been following for three seasons.
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
Entre chien et loup tells the story of young Graça who flees modern-day Brazil in search affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, Ministère de la Culture France.
of a better place. A small community, all “good” people, welcomes her with open arms.
Duration 1h50
But the intruder quickly polarises the group’s desires, jealousies and frustrations, and
Recommended age 15+
an unhealthy chain of events is set in motion which everyone becomes a part of. Life on Optional English surtitles (on request)
the stage, which blends theatre with cinema, turns into a relentless human laboratory.
The sly seeds of identity and behavioural deviances that oppress the hunted individual Created from 5 to 12 July 2021 at Festival d’Avignon (FR)
then begin to emerge. Looking away is a form of cowardice, but repeating history is not Tour 2021-2022
a fatality. Graça runs away from fascism and, without realising it, throws herself into its 30 Sep. - 13 Oct. 2021 Comédie de Genève (Grande Salle)
arms, like a being who journeys, determined, towards her tragic destiny. It could happen 18 Oct. 2021 Le Parvis - Scène nationale de Tarbes (FR)
21 - 22 Oct. 2021 L’Estive - Scène nationale de Foix (FR)
anywhere in the world, but it is happening here and now in this fictional place that looks 5 - 6 Nov. 2021 Festival Temporada Alta - Gerona (ES)
awfully like our own reality. 15 - 16 Nov. 2021 Comédie de Caen - CDN de Normandie (FR)
20 Nov. - 4 Dec. 2021 TNP de Villeurbanne (FR)
11 - 12 Jan. 2022 CDN de Rouen (FR)
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 De Singel - Antwerp (BE)
27 -28 Jun. 2022 Greek Festival - Athens (GR)
Tour 2022-2023
© Magali Dougados
ongoingAvailable 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
NATACHA KOUTCHOUMOV The two pieces can be performed separately or as a diptych
(Switzerland) Recommended age 14+
Diptych created from 8 to 18 September 2021 at Comédie de Genève with La Bâtie - Festival de
Shakespeare is dead, long live Shakespeare! Natacha Koutchoumov focuses on the Genève (Salle Modulable)
English bard and turns the spotlight on the moments just before and just after the plot,
Available on tour
where the tremors and shocks of the theatrical process and the construction
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.Available on 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
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)
Available on tourAvailable 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
“documented” theatre of Kokodyniack. Language, which has become a body, stumbles, Recommended age 14+
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.
Kokodyniack work on memory. They begin by transcribing the collected speech according Tour 2021-2022
to a method of notation they have developed. They note down everything, hesitations, 10 Dec. 2021 Théâtre Benno Besson - Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
silences, onomatopoeia, clicks of the tongue, then they make a selection. On stage, they 17 - 18 Dec. 2021 Théâtre Le Reflet - Vevey (CH)
21 - 22 Jan. 2022 TLH - Sierre (CH)
reproduce the speech, precisely, but without imitating. Alone or in a group. The effect is
striking. Understated, plural and tense. Available on tour
© Magali Dougados
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