New theater year: what to see here and there, elsewhere and everywhere?

What does this start of the year have in store for us on the regional boards? Let’s go on a journey through the different structures of live performance, without being exhaustive as the programs are rich and varied.

On Bernard Thinat

In certified theaters

At the CDN in Tours, from January 8 to 10, Samuel Achache presents “Sans Tambour”, a total show, both theatrical and musical, which was created in the summer of 2022 in Avignon, and which has since toured France. It is therefore an event to which the Touraine public is invited to the Olympia theater! Finally, from February 26 to 28, “Le Ring de Katharsy” by Alice Laloy orchestrates four fights between avatars, circus performers and dancers. We can see him again on March 20 and 21 at the Scène Nationale in Orléans.

At the CDN in Orléans, from January 14 to 17, the collective “ Mind the Gap » presents “So that the year is good and the earth fertile”, a show presented in the fall by Châteauroux, Tours and Blois for the Central Region. Emerging from who knows where, bipeds completely haired, from head to toe. The rest is to be discovered. Finally, from January 28 to February 6, the final season of Soli will take you through 6 shows, towards societal themes. MagCentre will come back to this.

At the Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Scène Nationale, we will highlight among a rich program, from January 9 to 11, “Art” by Yasmina Reza where three friends talk about a work that one bought very expensively: a painting completely white! Text translated into 35 languages ​​and staged around the world. A must see! Then on January 22 and 23, “the Mandate” by Nicolaï Erdmann, we are in 1925 in the Soviet Union, when two families wanting to marry their offspring are looking for a mandate, namely a card from the Communist Party. It’s as exhilarating as can be, but that’s not all. Stalin hated it!

The Mandate at the MCB – Photo Simon Gosselin

At the Equinoxe in Châteauroux, Scène Nationale, for fans of the greatest British playwright, “Macbeth” on January 21, with bagpipes, Shakespearean sonnets and electronic music. On January 28, it will be “The Secret Life of Old People” which MagCentre has already talked about. Finally, on February 25, “Amazonia” puts its foot in the American firm’s dish.

At the Halle aux Grains de Blois, Scène Nationale, “Even more, everywhere, all the time” on January 17 and 18, where we talk about ecology, melting ice and many other things. This will be as part of the “Climate Generation” highlight. Then, on January 23 and 24, “Dracula, Lucy’s dream”, a visual and musical show, a puppeteering masterpiece. Finally, “The Secret Life of Old People” by Mohamed El Khatib, after Orléans and Châteauroux.

Dracula Lucy’s dream at the Halle aux grains – Photo Christophe Raynaud de Lage

At the Hectare de Vendôme, National Puppetry Center, it starts strong with January 14, “the Mystery of the glove”, before the 7th edition of the “Biennial with or without wire”: let us quote “Farben” on January 25 making tribute to Clara Immerwahr, Doctor of Chemistry, “Everyone is there” on the 30th of the same month recounting a family epic, then in February, “Richard III” adapted from Shakespeare’s play 1^is“Insomniacs” on the 2nd, denouncing a massacre of African riflemen in Rouen in 1940 by the Nazis (we then think of Thiaroye in Senegal), “La Langue des cygnes” on the 5th around a child rejected by his community. What a great program!

Everyone is there, at the Hectare de Vendôme – Photo Simon Gosselin

On the side of approved scenes

At the Atelier de Vernouillet (Dreux), “No one is together, except me” on January 31, gives a voice to young adults with an invisible disability. Then, on February 6 and 7, “the Rose of the Winds” confronts a cello and the preparation of a bouillabaisse with many fish, as it should be.

At the Chartres theater, on January 21, “Julia” by the Touraine Nightshot Collective, a free musical and theatrical dive into “1984” by George Orwell. Finally, on February 7, we adapt “The Circle of Dead Poets” based on the eponymous film by Peter Weir released in 1989.

At the Tête Noire theater in Saran, “Death of a Mountain” on January 16 and 17 immerses the public in the Belledonne massif confronted with the consequences of global warming; On January 30, it will be “Heroines” which will tell the story of the work of women farmers in the past; finally, on February 27, “Grand pays” evokes the complexity of migration policies through the trials of Cédric Herrou.

Heroines, at the Théâtre de la Tête noire – Photo Isabelle Jouvante

Elsewhere, in the Loiret

The CADO of Orléans offers from January 16 to 26, “ upside down », a sort of conference by André Dussollier on his love of words.

The Clin d’œil theater in St Jean de Braye is programming “Together” on January 31, based on a text by Dennis Kelly which brings a confined man and woman face to face: intimate revelations and morality risk transgressing good and morality. wrong.

The Théâtre de l’Escabeau in Briare offers you its next creation, on February 1 and 2, “the Singer and the Philosopher”, a mezzo-soprane interrupted by a powdered and wigged fanatic from the 17^th century, who will tell you about gender equality.

The Singer and the Philosopher at the Théâtre de l’Escabeau – Photo Alain Gaymard

In Meung sur Loire, as part of the Fabricoles, a festival imagined by Christophe Thébault, February 14 will see the very premiere of “Germinal” after Zola, but with love, humor and masks, by the Krizo theater.

Something to satisfy all audiences!