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Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding down, while ...

In 1929 Jean Cocteau penned the acclaimed Les enfants terribles over three weeks whilst recovering from an opium addiction. A tragic thriller, Cocteau’s work tells ...

In a marble quarry, various machines are in action, cutting and polishing the rock. In this otherworldly place and behind his machines, Rone sculpts sweeping ...

The heart is a flower blooming in the mystery of the night. A summer affair turns to winter chill when a country girl with tender ...

Genesis is a competition for choreographers, but those who witness it are truly the winners. Three finalists are handpicked by Michael Pink from around the ...

Ingun Bjørnsgaard in dance risk dialogue with Ibsen's most enigmatic and modern woman....

Electro swing phenomenon Caravan Palace will play at the Rockhal on Thursday 04 October 2012 presenting their new album "Panic". Blending gypsy jazz and swing ...

Le Raoul is an endless and tireless progress and each show is like a freeze frame of a fertile fantasy, of an insatiable struggle for ...

Why do men go to war? And what can woman do to stop them, if anything? Sahand Sahebdivan, born in Iran, and Raphael Rodan, raised ...

A meal among friends. Lea plans it hoping for a pleasant evening. Thomas, her partner, is in a depression. It’s been months since he’s been ...

Christmas 2012, Édouard meets Reda, a young and good looking Kabyle. He invites him home and they spend a passionate night. Then the tryst becomes ...

Amine, surgeon and Arab Israeli citizen is called in to do emergency surgery on victims of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. At the end ...

Edward Bernays changed the world from the shadows. Sigmund Freud’s nephew, this American artists’ agent becomes an advertising agent and political councilor during the 1930’s ...

In the twilight of their careers, three actors refuse to give in to programmed obsolescence. Facing retirement which rings the death knell for their theatre ...

Is authenticity wishful thinking? The need to fictionalize our lives, does it not start in childhood, when we are taught to take on different roles ...

In all times, men and women have stood against the current conformity, disrupting the social, religious or political beliefs of their eras. The price to ...

Brazilian cinematographer and director, Christiane Jatahy made a strong impression with What if They Went to Moscow?, an exceptional adaptation of Chekov’s Three Sisters. Devastated ...

The secret to keep an entire city at bay. Not a ghost town because life animates this mysterious city. However silence envelops not just its ...

Apart from Bal in de Box, this season there is an additional date for night owls at the KVS: Groovalicious, a monthly party dedicated to ...

After Le Signal du promeneur, the Raoul Collectif continues its reflection around the relations between the individual and the group. In this case, it draws ...

Woken up in the middle of the night, an architect rushes through the city, runs through the residential and then the shopping district, reaches destitute ...

The KVS, as the Théâtre National , gives young artists time and space. It offers workshops, master classes and experiences of all kinds. Last year ...

Babel (words) poses the question: what would have happened if man had managed to reach the sky with the famous tower of Babel? Sidi Larbi ...

SILENCE (short version): Jean and Elise, a couple who are getting on a fair bit, have been together for 65 years. If they’re no longer ...

It is a foundational text of contemporary history. It took the German philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883), drawing on Britain’s industrial reality, twenty years to write. ...

The director Guy Cassiers has decided to make this gigantic white Carrara marble sculpture measuring 12m x 8m the focal point of his Belgian ‘docudrama’. ...

Revue Ravage tells of the life and work of a vain old political figure at the end of his career who is dreading having to ...

2013 on the scenes. Coup de coeur: the XS Festival. Size doesn't matter, the English say. However, at the National Theatre, it is precisely size ...

Joël Pommerat is a genius with a spectacular empathy for the anguish of man. After all, you would have to be in order to transform ...

Let’s talk about mental health with detachment, humour and poetry. Let’s consider the role of those so-called "crazy people" in our society. Let’s re-examine psychiatry ...

One lone actor, with the stage to himself for 1hr 20mins. Superlative! Alone and arrogant, cynical and insolent, burlesque and immoral, the orator seems to ...

This is the story of Gina, Cetty, Maria, Katia, Lia, Pinuccia and Antonella. Seven sisters who meet again at the burial of one of them. ...

This show talks about a "buzzing" standing time. Where the growth is in all minds. Marketing reigns supreme. Art has become a commodity. The lesser ...

The story begins in Berlin. In a park, in the rain. A disoriented black man stands with 5,000 euros at his feet. The hold-up went ...

"Nobody understands the pain of others and no one understands the joy of others! Always believed closer and we do that walk side by side"noted ...

In 1917, the manufacturer of tires and bombers Michelin published an illustrated guide of the Marne battlefields. Very quickly the first tourists roam the area ...

"In the Act 1" I am not a sub-culture, rather a gallery of self-portraits with a history walking in circles ", Robyn Orlyn chose to ...

The farming world has been struck hard by the economic crisis, globalisation, noxious derivatives of the liberal market, the dominance of industrial food-processing, and the ...

This is modern day Romania told through five reality-inspired scenes that reflect Romanian society today. The mayor of Baia Mare, a small south-western town, has ...

The German Director Monika Gintersdorfer offers radical performance shows and extremely physical. Its different creations testify to the particular look she wears on the African ...

Originally: A couple lost at sea on a small skiff. Toy prevailing winds, the couple pitching, as the skiff. And directions are uncertain. Their poverty ...

A couple is invited to dinner in the villa de Lise, in an upscale suburb. As soon as they are seated in the living room, ...

It’s 1745 in Verona. With a trompe-l’œil set, so distinctly bourgeois, lively characters and, of course, a touch of Commedia dell’Arte. This is pure Goldoni. ...

Outside front door tells the quest of the young soldier Beckmann who returns home after three years in the camps in Siberia during the second ...

"Personal development" is cool. And behind this word which is somewhat like a "grab bag", the best and sometimes the worst. The young actress Olivia ...

ABO GOURMAND / The creators of the company Arsenic (Le Dragon, Eclats d'Harms, Le Géant de Kaillass…) are back! A second life under another banner ...

After Grow or Go and Une Société de Services, Françoise Bloch and her company, Zoo Théâtre, continue their examination of the relationship between theatre and ...

From 16 to 25 October, he will propose a multitude of documentaries, debates, performances, exhibitions and concerts. All forms of expression taking on their time, ...

Throughout his rich and bountiful work (Le chagin des Ogres, Life: Reset/Chronique d’une ville épuisée...), Fabrice Murgia has never ceased observing his generation by exploring ...

At the age of 36, Jean-Marc Mahy finally began its life leaving the prison which he joined at the age of 17... An emergency, visceral. ...

"Life is a cabaret, old chum, come to the Cabaret! " Berlin, 30 years. Freshly landed, the young American Cliff Bradshaw discovers the Kit Kat ...

"Catherine Anne has found a balances between romanticism, sentimentalism, and cruelty. Darkness and lightness. I love it. This is a very good play on youth. ...

It's a show in two tables. With two houses and two stories. One takes place in Flanders, the other in Jerusalem. One side hanging old ...

Guy Cassiers and Tom Lanoye continue their fruitful collaboration and turn their attention to the "play of plays": Hamlet by Shakespeare. Guy Cassiers puts this ...

As a consequence of hearing the word repeated, as a consequence of making it an almost otherworldly concept, you end up almost forgetting the perversity ...

2013, somewhere in Europe. Bernard Loizeau is the architect and founder of After the Walls Incorporated. For several years now, he has been travelling round ...

What drives a man to make a complete break with his background, even with society as a whole? To put up opposition to a well-defined ...

For this world premier, the composer Philippe Boesmans, who made his mark on the history of lyrical art in the last thirty years with Reigan, ...

Jean and Elise are a couple of a certain age. 65 years of life together. In other words, almost a lifelong infinite love. And even ...

It's an example of solitude in the big city, well hidden behind the windows which are lit up at night. A young woman, played by ...

June 1832, the city wakes up, the fire smouldering in the dark of night, the people rise up. And under the barricades of Paris, we ...

Ali: This duo reunites Mathurin Bolze and Hedi Thabet around four crutches, a lamp, a chair and a piece of underground Rebetiko. A short play, ...

Through three stories, Fragile relates the unwavering desire to live, the beauty of uncertainty, non-conformity, resistance, the power of the imagination which makes everything possible. ...

"I'm like my town: young but already too old. I have no rules, I'm a pure product of the flames". Mochélan has an ache in ...

A simple table covered in an oilcloth. A man and a woman are speaking. A couple of farmers recounting their everyday life. A brief moment ...

A large flat, spacious and luxurious, where the patriarch sits in pride of place, at a big table set with a white tablecloth or hunched ...

It's a woman who is speaking. About her work at the arms factory, which she loves and which gives structure to her life. Her distress ...

Following La Langue de ma Mère (My mother's tongue) brought to the stage by the author himself last season, Tom Lanoye, that symbolic figure of ...

Christmas at the Theatre Festival organized by the Chamber of the Theatres for children and youth in partnership with the Centre cultural Jacques Franck, Pierre ...

Guy Cassiers and Dominique Pauwels set off on the quest for a new form of musical theatre: the music and the singing become actors in ...

«... Je voulais raconter à nouveau la relation entre la «classe dominante» et la «classe dominée» en partant cette fois du point de vue des ...

«... Je voulais raconter à nouveau la relation entre la «classe dominante» et la «classe dominée» en partant cette fois du point de vue des ...

«?Choix étoilés de la Libre Belgique. Jean Lambert questionne le théâtre autant que la fable dans cette plaisante adaptation du roman de Diderot, avec Jean-Pierre ...

«Constamment surprenant Kiss & Cry est un pur moment de bonheur, un petit miracle de création collective à l’heure de l’individualisme forcené. C’est aussi une ...

« ...Impressionnant, beau, envoûtant, émouvant, très original, magistralement mené et merveilleusement interprété, le conte fascine et bouleverse. Les enfants comme les adultes. On ne saurait ...

Les enfants de Jéhovah est sans doute un spectacle plus personnel encore que les précédents. Enfant de l’immigration, Fabrice Murgia y dépeint une famille, la ...

« Je veux explorer ces moments où, dépassé par le rythme infernal et oppressant du monde, on essaie de se retrouver et de prouver qu’il ...

Rendez-vous automnal des amoureux de la liberté et des défenseurs des droits humains, le Festival des Libertés revient au Théâtre National du 18 au 27 ...

«Après l’immense succès de son roman, Tom Lanoye porte à la scène La langue de ma mère... Tom Lanoye est une vraie “bête de scène”. ...

« Agnès Limbos est un grand nom du théâtre jeune public, ou du théâtre tout simplement. Elle vient de confirmer son talent par sa réelle ...

En 2010, Fabrice Murgia part s’aventurer sur la mythique Route 66 qui traverse les Etats-Unis d’est en ouest. Il tombe amoureux de cette «route fantôme». ...