Shows

In a world marked by violence, trauma and ecological collapse, LISIÈRES explores the fragilities of a generation still learning how to inhabit the world.

On stage, bodies, sounds, gestures and voices mingle and transform. Language fragments, bearings blur, creating a space where the boundary between presence and absence becomes uncertain.

At the heart of the story, four women - Ismène, Antigone, Jocaste and Eurydice, from the Labdacid line - carry histories of violence, wounds and transmission. Through them we see the traces left by what passes from one generation to the next, and the different ways of facing life and carrying on.

How do you keep living, creating and connecting when your bearings falter?

Conceived and directed by Emmy Houssais, LISIÈRES is a sensitive journey through individual and collective fragilities, at the boundary between what comes undone and what seeks to rebuild.

There are the injections, the hypos, the elephants, the doctor and the music rising.

There are the elephants, Malik, the cake wrappers, the appointments and the elephants.

And in the middle there is Lucia, hanging her pieces back together. And it’s been going on for a long time.

“it suits the government, a people afraid of the dark. If we behave we get a little light in the evening, a few moments of brightness, a bulb that crackles for a second or two; if we don’t, we have to face our fears. You know, sometimes I tell myself the dark might not be so terrible - it might just be what we think it is, nothing other than what’s there in broad daylight, except we don’t see it.”

In the excerpt from An Untimely Visit, Cyril’s second anniversary of AIDS has struck. For the occasion, we invite ourselves to the party, provoke death or provoke life - inside a hospital, or a theatre?