Théâtre de Carouge
Season 2025-2026
- The Théâtre de Carouge is a source of pride for the people of Carouge, whether they are spectators or not. It attracts over 50,000 spectators to their town annually and resonates the name of Carouge beyond the French-speaking world.
- Jean Liermier, director: “The program for this new season is a promise of gatherings that nourish the soul, give hope, and offer new perspectives. We will laugh together.”
- By Anton Chekhov, directed by Jean-François Sivadier
- Grande salle | 16+
- Duration 2h30 (in creation)
- From and by Jean Liermier
- An Anthology of 18 seasonal presentations
- Grande salle | 12+
- Duration 1h30 (in creation)
Anyone who has attended can attest to this: the Théâtre de Carouge’s seasonal presentations do more than simply announce the festivities to come. Like the flash of color that precedes the sunset on the horizon, this event is a theatrical “green ray,” a fireworks display slipped into the interstice between the twilight of one season and the dawn of the next, the evening of small confessions about past moments and big revelations about the DNA of future programming. This final presentation of the season will be plural, hence the “s” in parentheses in the title… We will offer you an anthology of sequences culled from the past eighteen years, a sparkling glance in the rearview mirror for an escapade in words, images, and sounds, orchestrated by Jean Liermier, accompanied for the occasion by a constellation of surprise guests. Embark on a fun and spectacular journey through the life of the Theatre, behind the scenes of a creation, enhanced with anecdotes and emotions spread between 2008 and 2026. And it’s a safe bet that at the end of each of these evenings there will be a vibrant: “Welcome to the most beautiful Carouge Theatre in the World, your Theatre!!!”…
- Collective creation by à l’Ouest Cie and Guillaume Pidancet, freely inspired by the tale “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault and inspired by other Swiss tales
- Theater truck | 12+
- Duration 1h30 (in creation)
Once upon a time, “Bluebeard” gave his young wife a set of keys that opened all the castle doors except one—which was strictly forbidden to her. The young bride broke this ban and discovered her husband’s repeated femicides.
Special offer:
15% off (within show and ticket availability)
37 CHF instead of 42 CHF
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Building A, door A13/A15, level 2.
Mon. – Fri. : 10am-3pm, non-stop
022 917 11 11
Married to Anna Petrovna, whose tuberculosis has doomed him to failure, and riddled with debt, Ivanov is no longer able to cope with adversity.
In four breathless acts, this ordinary man, a petty bourgeois from central Russia and a penniless landowner, sinks into a paralyzing melancholy that leads him to helplessly witness his own sinking. The comical twists and turns that toss this anti-hero between renewal and despondency will make his destiny a gripping journey through the fascinating labyrinth of the human soul. Chekhov wrote Ivanov in ten days. It was 1887, he was 27 years old, and the radicality of his brilliance permeates his first major play, where tragedy and comedy are intimately intertwined. Jean-François Sivadier, a man of the theatre with a unique style, writer, actor, and director, surrounded by veteran performers and brand-new companions, takes on this brutal and innovative version, reviving Chekhov’s incandescence.
Driven by the writing of one of the most fabulous poets of all time, his production resonates with Gustave Mahler’s quote: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the transmission of fire.”