NAC French Theatre

Grand Public

Theatre

© Gérard DuBois

Through cringe sketches interpreted by recently graduated performers, a magical game of mirrors and metamorphoses, a powerful act of resistance and solidarity in favour of beauty, a bewitching maritime tale a bit hypnotic, a joyous exchange of ideas about what we call the canon, or an outlandish epic which borrows to every performing art on stage at once, the 2024-25 season is an invitation to reach out to someone else, whoever they are. 

We invite you to reshape these structures that restrain us. Because they can’t hold us for long, especially if we push together. Readjust, rebalance, harmonize, invent.

Upcoming events

  1.  When a creative company known for films dredges up from the vaults of the past a masterpiece of theatre by filmmaker Pierre Perrault, it throws the audience onto the banks of the river, dreaming of half-obscured horizons. This bewitching maritime tale is directed…

  2.  The breathtaking Anne-Marie Olivier plays Maurice Dancause, a man who, after a violent stroke, woke up a total stranger to himself. Everything he had taken for granted had to be relearned: speaking, eating, holding a spoon. With help from a conversation partner…

  3. A joyous exchange of ideas, eloquent and irreverent, about the works that have left their mark on Western theatre. A fantastic team of artists unabashedly plays with the ostentatious subject of what makes a “classic” to cast an “antiquatedly new”…

  4. This outlandish epic, which borrows as much from the history of Jesus as it does from pop culture, is a two-part work in the style of a hyperactive kaleidoscope. Dance, theatre, kung-fu, mime, song, lip synching: every performing art on stage at once to tell the tale…

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