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Le spectacle qui écoute enfin la parole des enfants
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Lola Giouse
from Thursday, 12 December 2024 to Sunday, 15 December 2024
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Le spectacle qui écoute enfin la parole des enfants tells the story of a little girl’s radical gesture in front of two adults and an audience. Who is speaking and who is listening? Or rather: who has the right to speak and who gives themselves the right? Or again: who knows how to speak and who seems not to? Children know that sometimes adults think they’re doing the right thing by accompanying and encouraging those who are smaller than they are, even with the best of intentions. But in this new creation by Lola Giouse, the children are invited to express themselves, and the adults are asked to stay quiet this time. A lively, frank show about the inventive, assertive voice of children.
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Nachlass - Pièces sans personnes
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Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Rimini Protokoll (Stefan Kaegi/Dominic Huber)
from Thursday, 12 December 2024 to Sunday, 15 December 2024
Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Stefan Kaegi met with people who, for different reasons, chose to prepare for their death – an elderly woman, a scientist, an extreme sportsman, a father, a German industrial couple... An immersive scenography, which each spectator is invited to explore alone and at their own pace, gives access to eight rooms or memory chambers staging what each witness wishes to say to the living, after their death. Nachlass is a poignant theatrical experience full of life(s), which was created at Vidy in 2016 and has been touring internationally ever since.
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Les chats ou Ceux qui frappent et ceux qui sont frappés
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Marlène Saldana/Jonathan Drillet
from Thursday, 12 December 2024 to Saturday, 14 December 2024
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
An animal fable, a modern jazz ballet and a kabuki operetta: Les chats brings together performers from the musical Cats who have decided to flee society because the future of the planet seems so compromised, and to challenge their human condition by living like cats. Steeped in memories of 1980s Broadway, these hybrid creatures form an isolated community, safe from catastrophe. In order that even the smallest kitten, in this cold darkness under the stars, may contribute to a better future, they will sing and dance their fears, doubts and hopes, carried by the sound of the shô, the Japanese mouth organ. Will they ever return home? Where is real life? Are they still alive?
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Arrebentação - zona de derrama dernier chapitre
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Catol Teixeira
from Thursday, 12 December 2024 to Saturday, 14 December 2024
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
With a joyful and unpredictable vitality, Arrebentação experiments with the possibility of an open and free, composite and hybrid communality. Catol Teixeira extends the dialogue between circus, classical and contemporary dance, the festivities and celebrations of her early choreographies, by inviting the performers, their experiences and their dreams to mingle, however multiple, contradictory or parallel they may be. Arrebentação refers to the moment when swell waves become breakers, the abrupt passage from one to the other, the instant suspended between these two states – or the impetuous dance of hybridisation, in a leaderless space-time.
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Opération Rumba
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Dieudonné Niangouna
from Wednesday, 15 January 2025 to Friday, 17 January 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
A lyrical, poetic, theatrical and musical epic combining storytelling, performance and live music, woven from the rhythms of Congolese rumba. This popular music grew out of the cadences of the Kingdom of Kongo, which crossed the Atlantic during the slave trade, and blended with the Caribbean and the Americas before returning to enliven the African independence movements. Author, actor and director Dieudonné Niangouna, the storyteller of winding and duplicitous paths, orchestrates this epic tale of two brothers from Europe who set off for the Congo in search of their uncertain origins. Like the rumba of the two Congos, their journey will be made up of encounters with whimsical characters between fiction and reality, myth, popular songs, and political wounds: a carnivalesque and poetic saga about the secret of origins and the trafficking of inheritances.
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Lectures Ed Wige / Jérémie Gindre
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Ed Wige / Jérémie Gindre
Friday, 17 January 2025 18:00
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Lectures de deux lauréat·e·s romand·e·s des Prix suisses de littérature 2024, Ed Wige (Milch Lait Latte Mleko, Paulette Éditrice) et Jérémie Gindre (Tombola, Éditions Zoé), suivies d'une rencontre avec les auteurices.
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Cérémonie de remise du Prix du livre de la Ville de Lausanne
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Monday, 20 January 2025 19:00
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Découvrez en direct le nom de la lauréate ou du lauréat de la 11e édition du Prix du livre de la Ville de Lausanne. Au menu de cette soirée littéraire : lectures théâtralisées, musique et échanges avec les autrices et auteurs de la Sélection.
La soirée, mise en scène par Michel Sauser, aura lieu en présence de M. Grégoire Junod, Syndic de la Ville de Lausanne, de Mme Nadia Roch, cheffe du Service des bibliothèques & archives, en charge du Prix du livre de la Ville de Lausanne, de Mme Fanny Meyer, déléguée à la politique du livre de la Ville de Lausanne, de Marina Rollman, Marraine de la 11e édition du Prix du livre et des autrices et auteurs de la 11e Sélection : Marc Agron, Bastien Hauser, Hélène Jacobé, Catherine Lovey et Lorrain Voisard
La remise de Prix sera suivie d’un apéritif. Entrée libre sur inscription
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Quiet Light
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Cindy van Acker
from Tuesday, 21 January 2025 to Saturday, 25 January 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
“Something happens. Or else, something does not happen. A body moves. Or else, it does not move. And if it moves, something begins to happen. And even if it does not move, something begins to happen,” wrote Paul Auster. Cindy Van Acker invites the movement of the fugue. Inspired by the retrospective of the Flemish painter Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) at the Musée de l’Hermitage, the choreographer has gleaned from these canvases the slow fluidity of time, the gentle interweaving of light and shadow, horizons that seem to open onto the abyss. In a choreographed, understated duet, she seeks out a form of movement that is brimming with possibility and the intimate joy inherent in freeing transition, transformation, and passage when they appear, evanescent, fluid and porous to what comes next. One might say unfinished – not to imply that something is missing, but to convey the sense that what is absent is as much a part of the journey of the moment as what is there.
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Par autan
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Théâtre du Radeau/François Tanguy
from Wednesday, 29 January 2025 to Saturday, 1 February 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Par autan could be the stage of a bygone theatre buffeted by the four winds, or perhaps the frenzied workshop of a craftsman whose scattered visions spring to life. The shows put on by the Théâtre du Radeau, a renowned European troupe for whom Par autan will be the last opus, are all about the magic of theatre: conjuring up images and horizons with simple devices and memories of poems. The murmur of poets, the piano next door, the fleeting fireflies of a philosopher, the gaze of the moon on the sleeping lake, dance and song on the fly, a comedy of music and palimpsestic words... In the company of Walser, Kafka, Kleist and Chekhov, familiar words combine with the movements of the scenery chassis, the glances of companions, wind in the curtains and musical tunes in a lively, comical and multifaceted tableau: a journey from Fellini’s daring swerves to Dostoyevsky’s intrigues, a happy wandering, an encounter like the autan – a sea wind from the south, the wind of ancient mills and sorcerers, a breeze or storm that is said to drive people mad.
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Sagrada Familia
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Nathalie Lannuzel
from Friday, 31 January 2025 to Friday, 14 February 2025
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
The actress Nathalie Lannuzel has written and directed her first play, and it is to the theatre that she entrusts her story. It is the account of a family, of a shattered childhood. A violence that is rarely spoken of, that is only just beginning to be heard: incest. For so long, it was necessary to keep silent in order to survive. But in order to live, one must write and tell. The words that come out do not attempt to describe reality, but the power of life that runs through it, from the silence of childhood, the silence of an entire society. A courageous text, written with hindsight and care so as to listen to the child, heal the adult and provide food for thought about personal and collective violence, what is said and what is not. Nathalie Lannuzel entrusts her words to a quartet of actors, creating a choral, shared voice – because that is what is at stake: forging new bonds in response to destroyed relationships.
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La guerre des pauvres
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Olivia Grandville
from Saturday, 8 February 2025 to Thursday, 13 February 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
In 1524, the poor rose up in southern Germany. The uprising spread and soon reached Switzerland and Alsace. One figure stood out from the chaos, a young theologian fighting alongside the insurgents: Thomas Müntzer. Novelist Éric Vuillard tells the story of his romantic life, and paints a timeless portrait of those forgotten by history. Choreographer Olivia Grandville uses a fragmented mix of dance, music, visual arts and voice to give life to this gripping tale, the heady momentum of anger and the march towards the abyss. Actor Laurent Poitrenaux reads the text in this animated, luminous and musical space, creating temporal bridges between past and present as an uprising unravels the course of history.
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By Heart
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
By Heart
Tiago Rodrigues
Monday, 10 February 2025 19:30
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
As the Portuguese playwright and director’s grandmother begins to go blind, she asks him for a book to learn by heart. He chooses Shakespeare’s sonnets, bringing them to the stage in a delicate and generous reflection on the theatre and against time, forgetting, ageing, absence and disappearance.
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Catarina e a beleza de matar fascistas
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Tiago Rodrigues
from Tuesday, 11 February 2025 to Friday, 14 February 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues revives his Chekhov-style period production of a contemporary family and political drama: for decades, a Portuguese family dedicated to fighting fascism has been meeting in the countryside. Every summer, one member of the family takes it in turns to ritually murder a fascist. This year, everything is ready, the victim is designated, and it is the eldest daughter’s turn to carry out the deed. But she rejects violence as a means of action. Dissension within the clan – although bolstered by the same convictions – erupts between the generations, between those who have moved to the city and those who have stayed in the country. The populist, on the other hand, has no such hesitations... A powerful and wonderfully portrayed story that lucidly observes the rise of populism in Europe and the people who are trying to resist it, questioning our relationship with violence.
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Doreen
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Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
David Geselson
from Wednesday, 26 February 2025 to Sunday, 2 March 2025
Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
André and Doreen, your confidants for the evening, welcome you into their living room. Adapted from the life and writings of André Gorz, a pioneer of political ecology who lived in Lausanne, and in particular his Lettre à D. - Histoire d’un amour (Letter to D. – The Story of a Love), the play offers a reserved glimpse into the private lives of two inseparable people who have loved each other for 60 years and want to die together. Amid the jumble of their memories, they delicately and thoughtfully weather readings of Sartre, married life, disagreements and trust, commitments, life choices, and illnesses...
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Ars Nova
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Romain Daroles
from Wednesday, 26 February 2025 to Sunday, 9 March 2025
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Four people set up camp on what could be the slopes of a volcano. These scientists and enthusiasts are expecting an eruption, but instead, operatic sound bubbles burst from the ground... Part joyous fantasy, part melancholy contemplation, Romain Daroles shares his passion for opera: arias and lyrical flights become crystals in which snatches of the past and echoes of the future are reflected.
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The Employees
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Łukasz Twarkowski
from Friday, 28 February 2025 to Sunday, 2 March 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Based on Les Employés d’Olga Ravn
Aboard a spaceship, human employees rub shoulders with their android doubles on a journey light years from Earth. But the relationship between humans and robots is troubled by the orders of the mysterious organisation that governs them. By adapting a masterpiece of science fiction, Łukasz Twarkowski, an emblematic figure of the new Polish scene, explores the subtle distinction between brain and consciousness and delivers an intense theatrical, visual and sound experience, masterfully performed by the actors of Warsaw’s STUDIO theatergallery. -
Lab Rats
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Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Marc Oosterhoff
from Wednesday, 5 March 2025 to Sunday, 9 March 2025
Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
A glass box; two men inside, and the audience seated all around. Like a pair of lab rats, these two humans attempt to coexist: they sniff, help and avoid each other, swagger, search for a way out. With humour, between tender struggles and awkward waltzes, they tread like acrobats on the unstable scale of feelings and emotions. They are two, they are one, they seem to be a thousand. A show for all ages, Lab Rats by Marc Oosterhoff and Owen Winship paints a humorous portrait of a bewildering humanity.
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Quichotte
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Gwenaël Morin
from Tuesday, 11 March 2025 to Friday, 14 March 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Based on Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
From Don Quixote – the hidalgo who wanted to live according to chivalry novels – director Gwenaël Morin has kept the fierce desire to experience theatre in contact with life. With Jeanne Balibar in the role of Quixote, Marie-Noëlle as Rossinante, his horse, and Thierry Dupont from the Oiseau Mouche company as Sancho Panza, he sets out to tackle Cervantes’ masterpiece with the promise of turning it upside down by the sheer force of his vivid and unfettered theatrical imagination. Don Quixote suffers humiliations that mock his credulity, to which he responds with his hallucinations. Jeanne Balibar plays an anti-heroine who fervently embarks on a mischievous theatrical adventure, ready to take on the merciless world.
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Hominal / Xaba
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Marie-Caroline Hominal / Nelisiwe Xaba
from Tuesday, 11 March 2025 to Thursday, 13 March 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Who is the author of an “appropriated” or copied dance? Marie-Caroline Hominal and the South African dancer and choreographer Nelisiwe Xaba attempt to answer this question. Together they weave colourful threads to the point of saturation, unfold exuberantly patterned and coloured fabrics, perform online choreographic tutorials and cheerfully berate each other. This is their response: a flashy world in continuous flux, made up of encounters, crossovers and links, imbued with a wild and communicative joy.
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Préparation pour un miracle
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Marc Oosterhoff
from Wednesday, 19 March 2025 to Sunday, 23 March 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Catastrophe and magic
Who is that man standing on the stage? He looks lost – would he rather not be there? But... objects move when his back is turned, trap doors on the floor lead to the ceiling and all the doors in the room seem to communicate with each other... The world no longer functions as it should. The poetic circus of acrobat Marc Oosterhoff combines Buster Keaton, Bartleby and Beckett, with a touch of Alice and her looking glass. Part acrobatics, part illusion, Préparation pour un miracle is a one-man show that rhymes magic with vertigo!
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FRKS
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Rébecca Balestra / Igor Cardellini / Tomas Gonzalez
from Wednesday, 26 March 2025 to Friday, 4 April 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Monsters are transgressive, boundary-crossing figures, free from the norms that separate and stigmatise. As such, they can offer us a point of entry into self-narratives that explore murky territories. Splitting its textual and visual material, FRKS stages the voice of a queer person from the near future, contrasting it with a series of disturbing images that reinterpret the codes of the freak show. This monstrous and beautiful theatrical ode seeks to remake fluid spaces between the human and the inhuman, the normal and the strange, nature and culture.
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Daddy
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Marion Siéfert
from Thursday, 27 March 2025 to Saturday, 29 March 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Mara is 13 and dreams her life on her smartphone. Through her avatar in a web-based video game, she meets Julien. “If you want to become an actress,” he tells her, “it’s going to happen now, in the Metaverse”. He offers to be her sponsor, her daddy, so that she can join another online platform, this time without an avatar and for adults. Based on a real-life investigation into the online abuse of teenagers, Marion Siéfert has written a work of fiction that reveals the logic of domination over children and how society allows it to happen. A teeming, chilling and fascinating performance that ranges from video game to theatrical drama.
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Lenz
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Éléonore Bonah / Maria Clara Castioni
from Tuesday, 1 April 2025 to Thursday, 10 April 2025
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
by Georg Büchner
In a mountain village, two women take in Lenz the wanderer, the poet, the idealist, in the depths of solitude, on the verge of collapse. They describe what he said, and what they saw. Georg Büchner’s novel recounts the wanderings of the poet Lenz through the testimony of the pastor Oberlin. For their remarkable graduation show from La Manufacture, Éléonore Bonah and Maria Clara Castioni have entrusted the great German actress Anne Tismer and the young Luna Desmeules with a new version of the story, as seen by two women, told in their own words.
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Lecture / Discussion
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Olivier Cadiot
Thursday, 3 April 2025 19:00
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
L'écrivain et poète Olivier Cadiot lit Irréparable (2023, P.O.L), texte écrit pour Christoph Marthaler, avec qui il entretient une complicité depuis qu'ils furent associés au Festival d'Avignon en 2009, et des extraits de son prochain livre Départs de feu (P.O.L).
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Toi, moi, Tituba...
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Dorothée Munyaneza
from Tuesday, 8 April 2025 to Thursday, 10 April 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
A woman’s body emerges from the shadows to the notes of Khyam Allami’s oud. Through breath, voice and dance, Dorothée Munyaneza becomes a body-archive, a black chrysalis, a refuge, and a spectre of the lives of oppressed women. Choral solitude in a haunted space: black female figures of the resistance – dominated, ostracised, dispersed, erased from narratives and memories – are remembered in the present in this graceful and powerful tribute. Inspired by texts by Maryse Condé and Elsa Dorlin, Toi, moi, Tituba... is neither an incantation nor a ritual, but a face-to-face encounter with the unquiet memories of colonisation.
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Hominal / Öhrn
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Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Hominal / Öhrn
from Tuesday, 8 April 2025 to Thursday, 10 April 2025
Salle 76, La PasserelleThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Reversing the relationship between performer and creator of a show, Marie-Caroline Hominal invites Swedish director and video artist Markus Öhrn to direct her. He responds to this act of independence – this time, the dancer has chosen the person with whom she wants to work – by turning the dancer into the reincarnation of his grandmother Eva Britt, who returns from the dead to fully experience, at last, her freedom as a woman. A performance that serves as an outlet, playing with the imagery of the undead and driven by the spirit of emancipation.
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La Médaille ou À chacun son monstre !
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Marielle Pinsard/Débora Beuret-Strambini
from Wednesday, 30 April 2025 to Sunday, 11 May 2025
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Based on a fairytale by Marie-Thérèse Picard
One child saves another by a river – it seemed to be battling a monster. And yet now they are bickering with a violence they have modelled on grown-ups! Will they succeed in joining forces against the monster? Marielle Pinsard and illustrator Débora Beuret-Strambini have adapted a children’s story by Guyanese author Marie-Thérèse Picard. A poetic, theatrical journey featuring drawings, vinyl records made of paper, sound effects and ventriloquism, is a reminder of the importance of empathy and reliance.
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Perchée
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Forêt du Théâtre Vidy-LausanneThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Mathias Brossard/Collectif CCC
from Friday, 2 May 2025 to Saturday, 7 June 2025
Forêt du Théâtre Vidy-LausanneThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Inspired by Baron Perché by Italo Calvino
Young Cosima has rebelled against her parents and has perched in a tree near Vidy. She has no intention of coming down again, especially as her life in the trees leads her to make incredible encounters: up in the canopy, Cosima discovers philosophical meditation, the idea of political activism and the joys of love! But Perchée is also a group of friends sharing their reading of Baron Perché by the Italian author Italo Calvino. The book takes them on a thrilling rediscovery of life, nature and human society and its strange foibles, which they share with the children sitting around the tree.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Lola Giouse
from Monday, 5 May 2025 to Sunday, 11 May 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
d'Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac is a masterpiece of the repertoire that speaks of love in a lively and inventive language. It is often seen as a bravura performance, reserved for acting “giants”. To enable it to be heard anew, Lola Giouse has brought together a group of liberated and powerful actresses: together, they reveal the nuanced richness of the so-called secondary characters and showcase the marvels of alexandrine punchlines, put at the service of all and not just one – to dispel the fascination, and fully embrace chosen relationships.
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Tapajós
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
from Wednesday, 14 May 2025 to Saturday, 24 May 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Brazilian artist Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha’s long-term artistic research focuses on ravaged rivers and the women who are fighting to heal them – and in so doing, caring for their own bodies, spirits and children. In the Amazon rainforest, the Munduruku mothers are contaminated by the Tapajós river, polluted by mercury generated by illegal gold prospecting. The play is the result of an alliance between mothers – mothers from the Tapajós river region, Munduruku mothers, mothers of families, mother fish, mother forest and mother of the river – and the connection between the mercury used to reveal the gold in the water and a silver halide photograph. Tapajós is a ritual performed by a duo of actresses, inviting us to perceive the invisible in water. It was created in Brazil and performed in the forest before travelling here, enabling the walls of Vidy to echo the call of the Amazon river.
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Before it starts after it’s finished
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Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Catol Teixeira/Sandar Tun Tun
from Thursday, 15 May 2025 to Saturday, 24 May 2025
Salle 23, Studio de répétitionThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
In this duet, dancer Catol Teixera moves with the immersive music of musician Sandar Tun Tun, in a piece dedicated to moments of change, of falling, of contact. In an emotional landscape, when we sense that something is about to happen – or even that it has just happened – time seems curved, unscored, free-falling. Like waiting for a thunderstorm to arrive, perhaps: a kind of omen, a promise of something that is going to happen, beyond our control. The senses become very attuned: the dampness of the ground intensifies, wind caresses the skin, the birds stop singing – and then, the storm.
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Le Sommet
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Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Christoph Marthaler
from Friday, 16 May 2025 to Sunday, 25 May 2025
Salle 64, Charles ApothélozThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
For his sixth show at Vidy, Christoph Marthaler has brought together six actors and musicians from Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria and Scotland for an expedition... to the summit. Gipfel in German means ‘summit’, and can refer to a mountain peak or a political conference, but also... a Parisian pastry. Which of these will be the subject of this new play? In the musical theatre of this brilliant Swiss-German director, people sing, often lose their way, and sometimes find what they were not looking for. Humour and music do the rest. Much like Europe, which is searching for its bearings, there can be no doubt that the summit will be reached, though the paths to get there might be tortuous.
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Wasted land
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Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Ntando Cele
from Friday, 16 May 2025 to Saturday, 17 May 2025
Salle 96, René GonzalezThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
This whimsical and political performance is carried by the Bern-based South African artist Ntando Cele, a dazzling performer with a lively and ironic energy. She confronts the human disasters of fast fashion and Western feel-good ecology, reassured by organic labels and the comforting promises of recycling. When one person’s sustainable dream becomes another person’s disaster... Featuring the Egyptian composer Wael Sami Elkholy and three singer-performers, Wasted Land is a spirited, musical plea for a decolonial ecology.
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Zucco
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Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
La Manufacture / Gabriel Calderón
from Wednesday, 11 June 2025 to Thursday, 12 June 2025
Salle 17, Le PavillonThéâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Gabriel Calderón and the acting students of La Manufacture’s theatre BA programme delve into Bernard Marie-Koltès’ last play, loosely based on the life of the Italian serial killer Roberto Succo. Through this figure representing the darkest sides of humanity, they examine the issue of violence stemming from social inequalities and exclusion.
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