Cultural offers theaters

Braveheart, Tuesday April 29, 2025 at 8pm
Wael Kadour
From the writing of trauma to the trauma of writing. A powerful show about the wounds caused by exile.
Written and directed by Wael Kadour, Braveheart plunges us into the poignant story of Aline, a Syrian refugee recently settled in France. No one cares about Aline's tragedy anymore; the world is far too busy with a pandemic and new wars. With a lot of grief and a little willpower and love, she tries to go on living. But the world she's managed to build for herself threatens to collapse once again: a rumor reaches her that her former tormentor has fled the country and become a refugee, just like her.
In the grip of delusions caused by her traumatic past, Aline must find a new reality for her life. She immerses herself in writing her story, while living a love affair. But little by little, the boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred. The mechanics of violence gradually lead Aline into a destructive spiral. Creation becomes the mirror of a soul as weak as it is courageous, damaged by exile.

Et leur cœur fume encore, Saturday April 5, 2025 at 6pm
Margaux Eskenazi / Cie Nova
Traversing memories of the Algerian War from its beginnings to its present-day entanglements, the show was built around testimonies, gathered from the families, loved ones and neighbors of the artistic team. The play revolves around seven characters whose points of view and positions differ. An investigation that moves from testimony to play, from reality to fiction, from the poetry of Kateb Yacine or Assia Djebar to history, Et le coeur fume encore seeks to unearth the stories of this long-suppressed war, to read through them the social and political fractures of today's France. This intelligent and joyful theater is a gentle resistance against amnesia!

Habiter, May 20 - 23, 2025
With Habiter, author and director Patricia Allio and actor Pierre Maillet set out to undo a normative, naturalistic conception of gender duality, in order to think about the mutable, plural nature of identity. A queer fantasy, this monologue in the form of a little raw theater incorporates as many seemingly whimsical philological digressions as documentary illustrations borrowed from recent news or art history. Through language games and onomatopoeic and anagrammic pirouettes, this eulogy of a nomadic inter and trans-species identity opens up to the political consideration of a world without borders.

Une ombre vorace, May 20-24, 2025
Jean Vidal is a mountain guide. His father, a famous mountaineer, disappeared while attempting to climb the Matterhorn solo thirty years ago. On a recent ascent, Jean Vidal is surprised by a storm when he enters a cave and discovers a frozen body. As he approached, surprised and horrified, he realized it was his father's body. Two years later, a film producer calls on a famous actor, Michel Roux, to embody Jean Vidal's odyssey on screen... In Une ombre vorace, by bringing these two protagonists to life, Argentine director Mariano Pensotti, with his acute sense of narrative, composes a "fictional documentary work", a story presented as real but whose imaginary part is almost total.

The new path (Sinnoi group), May 27, 2025
SINNOI, a motley and singular quartet, delivers with The New Path, a music unique in its genre, joyfully blurring the boundaries between styles, to the rhythm of deliciously hybrid compositions. The group presents itself as the summit meeting of Wonsool Lee, a bassist renowned on the Korean jazz scene; Bora Kim, whose vast musical range navigates between gyeonggi minyo (Korean folk song) and jeongga (traditional vocal genre); Godam, electronic musician and Nayeon Lee, wind instrument player.