Tu es là, the Ktha theatre company's new open-air performance, aims to offer a digression and bring us together for the duration of a story told by two voices. The Institut français supported the Chilean tour of the company’s new performance at the start of 2024 through its IF Export programme. 

In Fajar ou l'odyssée de l'homme qui rêvait d'être poète, the actor Adama Diop turns to directing with a thrilling tale at the crossroads of artistic disciplines. Between film, theatre and music and inspired by his own story, he follows the tortuous journey of a young Senegalese man in search of his...

Directed by Anne Monfort and written by Laure Bachelier-Mazon, How far is a play about sharing memories, between the north-east of Paris and Nigeria marked by the memory of the conflict at Biafra. The Institut français IF Création international cooperation programme supports new theatrical...

In Aux Éclats ..., Nathalie Béasse captures human failings, caught between laughter, downfall and the desire to create. She has created a show that is far-fetched and bizarre yet poetic, one that loses itself in the notions of dreams, games and costume, along with a touch of melancholy and nostalgia...

La Chute infinie des soleils is about to make its debut at the Théâtre des Célestins in Lyon. An opportunity to rediscover the tragic and extraordinary history of the shipwrecks on the island of Tromelin. Its author, the Togolese Elemawusi Agbedjidji, is a beneficiary of the Des mots à la scène prog...

With Les Sables de l'empereur, Victor de Oliveira adapts Mia Couto's novel for the stage and immerses himself in a feverish evocation of Mozambique. Through two intersecting destinies and a love story, he explores the origins of a multifaceted Africa and transforms a powerful narrative into a major...

Avec le réalisateur de L'Expérience de l'arbre , Simon Gauchet nous offre un corps fantomatique entre deux visions du monde.

The Théâtre du Soleil's latest show, L'Île d'Or, is about to embark on a tour of Japan, supported by the Institut français via the IF Export 2023 call for projects. It's an opportunity to revisit the earliest theatrical inspirations of its iconic founder Ariane Mnouchkine, for whom her first trip to...

With LOVETRAIN2020, the Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat has created an exhilarating musical comedy that uses songs by Tears for Fears for a stunning collective celebration. Presented in France and internationally, with the support of the Institut français, it also looks back at the pandemic years...

In this sensitive work on the potential of perception and imagination, two actors try to bring to life the mental images of Thierry, a blind man who evokes on stage his memory of a play that deeply moved him. This project by Guillaume Poix and Lorraine de Sagazan, currently touring Europe, is...

Tafé Fanga, le pouvoir du pagne is a powerful play in which the collective voice of a group of women meticulously dissects the failings of patriarchal society. 

A collaboration between Rwandan director Dorcy Rugamba and Senegalese author and performer Felwine Sarr, Liberté, j'aurai habité ton rêve jusqu'au dernier soir takes to the stage to imagine the encounter between René Char and Frantz Fanon. Two authors for whom engagement and resistance have...

In Pères, enquête sur les paternités d'aujourd'hui (Fathers, an investigation into modern fatherhood), Compagnie Babel tells the story of the different roles of fathers in our time. Between touching family stories and contemporary questions, the play distils tenderness, humour and emotion using...

Masterfully directed by Yngvild Aspeli, Moby Dick is an adaptation of Herman Melville's mythical work, halfway between theatre and puppet show. Supported internationally by the Institut français, the Plexus Polaire company has already presented Moby Dick in Portugal, with the support of the Institut...

Dialaw Project Vol.1 is a play by Mikaël Serre, created in collaboration with the inhabitants of the village of Toubab Dialaw in Senegal, threatened with destruction by a container port project. 

This project is supported by the Institut français' "Relance Export" programme, which aims to provide...