La Comédie de Genève
Season 2026-2027
- One of Switzerland’s leading theatres, presenting bold productions by renowned Swiss and international artists.
- A striking cultural venue in Eaux-Vives combining performance spaces, creative workshops and rehearsal studios under one roof.
- A lively destination where theatre, dance and artistic encounters come together throughout the season.
- Location : Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: 16+
- Duration: 2h45
- Language: French
- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: All
- Duration: 1h05
- Languages: English, French and Dutch, surtitled in English and French.
Winner of the 2025 Swiss Grand Prize for Performing Arts, Thomas Hauert brings together performers with and without disabilities to create an innovative choreographic language free from hierarchy. Through movement, the performers explore new ways of seeing, interacting, and positioning themselves in relation to one another, resulting in a vibrant and inclusive dance performance.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: All
- Duration: 1h20
- Language: English, surtitled in French.
Known for his socially engaged and deeply realistic productions, Alexander Zeldin presents The Other Place, a contemporary reimagining of Antigone. Through the everyday life of an apparently ordinary family, the production exposes the contradictions, tensions, and hidden forms of violence that shape modern society.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: All
- Duration: 2h
- Language: French
An amateur choir gradually falls under the influence of an ideology that emerges through the repertoire imposed by its new musical director. In this sharp contemporary fable, Gabriel Sparti examines how authoritarian mechanisms can infiltrate everyday life under seemingly harmless social and cultural practices.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: 16+
- Language: French with songs in Russian
Blending classical music, folk songs, and electronic soundscapes, Russian artists in exile Elina Kulikova and Dima Efremov present an intimate and political trilogy about the war in Ukraine and the repression of all forms of dissent. Through three interconnected performances, they explore memory, resistance, and personal testimony.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: All
- Duration: 1h15
From the intimate ritual of bedtime in Avant la nuit to the symbolic and unsettling universe inspired by Stravinsky’s Firebird, choreographer Edouard Hue creates a dance diptych exploring parenthood, intergenerational tensions, and contemporary society through movement and powerful visual imagery.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: 16+
- Duration: 1h40
Brazilian choreographer Catol Teixeira brings together ten multidisciplinary artists from Latin America and Europe in a polyphonic dance experience. Through collective movement and emotional exploration, Baby Teeth creates spaces of vulnerability, transformation, and shared sensitivity.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: 16+
- Duration: 2h30
- Language: French and Kabyle, surtitled in French
Adapted from Mathieu Belezi’s powerful novel, Céline Pauthe intertwines the voices of a French settler family during the Algerian War of Independence. This striking choral work examines colonial violence, collective memory, and the lasting impact of history on the present day.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: All
- Duration: 2h10
- Language: French
Combining live sound production, documentary images, and performance, Aurélie Charon and Amélie Bonnin bring together the stories of young people from Bosnia, Syria, Ukraine, Rwanda, India, and France. Their testimonies create a moving dialogue about identity, commitment, and belonging in today’s world.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: All
- Duration: 2h20
- Language: French
The Belgian collective La Brute returns to Racine’s masterpiece with a stripped-down staging that reveals the raw emotional force of the text. By removing theatrical ornamentation, the production highlights the violence, passion, and timeless complexity of one of the greatest tragedies in French literature.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: 1h50
- Language: French
Blending baroque opera with Congolese rumba, Coup Fatal brings together thirteen musicians, most of them from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a vibrant performance that combines concert, dance, and celebration. Overflowing with energy and generosity, the show creates a joyful encounter between musical traditions and contemporary creativity.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: 16+
- Duration: 1h30
- Language: French
Each evening, two actors who have never met before perform a love story while receiving live instructions through earpieces, guided by an intimacy coordinator. This unusual theatrical device becomes a fascinating exploration of desire, vulnerability, and human connection in real time.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: 1h30
- Language: French
Andrea Jiménez turns her relationship with her father into the material of her performance. She takes on the role of Cordelia, while a different actor each night steps into the role of Lear without rehearsal. Inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy, the production becomes a moving reflection on family ties, forgiveness, and personal freedom.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: approximately 1h15
- Language: French
What if the widow of an American insurance CEO killed by Luigi Mangione agreed to engage in restorative dialogue with his murderer? Created with writer Adèle Yon, the collective Dreams Come True explores contemporary justice, reconciliation, and the possibility of overcoming social and political antagonisms through fiction.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: approximately 2h30
- Language: French
In a France warmed by five additional degrees, the CEO of a major oil company, isolated in a luxurious bunker and enhanced by neural implants, watches his daughter descend into mutiny. Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre create a dystopian fiction that explores the fears, contradictions, and inequalities shaping contemporary society.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: approximately 1h
- Language: French
Before the audience’s eyes, Marc Oosterhoff and Owen Winship build a series of small feats and illusions that question our willingness to believe. Combining performance, poetry, and visual experimentation, the show explores the mysterious relationship between spectators and what they choose to accept as real.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: 1h40
- Language: French
In 1896, a young woman named Madeleine entered the Salpêtrière Hospital claiming she could levitate. Inspired by this true story, Valentine Losseau creates an immersive production blending theatre, dance, and contemporary magic to challenge perception and blur the line between reality and illusion.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: 1h
- Language: French
In the atmosphere of a forest at dusk, Adèle Haenel and Caro Geryl, in collaboration with Gisèle Vienne, invite audiences to a gathering combining reading, music, and performance. Inspired by the work of Monique Wittig, the evening explores questions of gender, power, and social structures through an intimate artistic experience.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: 5h30
- Language: French, surtitled in English
Julien Gosselin brings together the worlds of Roberto Bolaño and Lautréamont in an ambitious theatrical epic. Travelling from the Chilean dictatorship to writers complicit with Nazism, Maldoror examines violence, literature, and moral responsibility through a monumental triptych inspired by texts confronting the extremes of human evil.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: 1h45
- Language: French
Set in the newsroom of a newspaper on the brink of collapse, Adrien Barazzone transforms an editorial conference into an explosive closed-door debate. The production examines the ideological fractures threatening freedom of the press and democratic societies, with sharpness and lucidity.
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- Location: Grande Salle, Comédie de Genève
- Ages: 7+
- Duration: 1h15
- Language: French
On an empty white stage, two performers and a crow create an entire universe out of almost nothing. Accompanied by the Orchestra of Chamber Music of Geneva, Bardo d’Evel blends dance, circus arts, music, and poetry into a singular and imaginative performance.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: approximately 1h45
- Language: French and French Sign Language (LSF), surtitled in French
François Gremaud places his deaf brother Christian at the centre of the stage. While Christian tells the story of his life in sign language, François translates from the side of the stage, weaving together a deeply personal narrative and a broader reflection on Deaf culture and the struggles of the deaf community.
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- Location: Salle Modulable, Comédie de Genève
- Duration: 1h
- Language: French
Seeing blurry, double, peripherally, or not at all: the four visually impaired performers of Vision—dancers, musicians, and actors—invite audiences to rethink perception. Through sound, touch, and movement, the Compagnie Shōnen creates an immersive theatrical experience that challenges conventional ways of seeing.
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Following Whitewashing in 2025, acclaimed performer and director Rebecca Chaillon transforms the stage into a utopian space where marginalized communities invent new myths and rituals to survive systemic violence and social norms. Blending political reflection with the atmosphere of a modern fable, La Parabole du Seum offers a powerful and imaginative theatrical experience.