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Creation: Le Boréal - Théâtre de Poche - Brussels (Belgium)
29th September 2026
“Even the darkest night is full of light for anyone who takes the trouble to look for it”
Britney Spears
- Directed by:Ilyas Mettioui
- Text:David Paquet (editions Leméac 2024), inspired by the original text Frank Wedekind
- Assistance in direction:Marie Glichitch
- Choreography:Bérengère Bodin
- Lighting Design:Hugues Girard
- Dramaturgy:Judith Ciselet
- Sound design:Antonin Simon
- Scenography:Cédric Michel
- Costume design:Samia Bouhjar
- With:Boykid, Didier Colfs, Monia Douieb, Benjamin Gisero/Tyssia Anuset (in alternance), Amine Hamidou, Lara Heine, Alice Johny Valinducq, Elise Wéry
- Production:Le Boréal with Le théâtre de Poche, Théâtre de l’Ancre, de la Coop asbl and sheilter Prod
- With the support of:COCOF from Wallonie-Bruxelles International, the Belgian Federal Government ’s Tax-Shelter, ING.
Their youth is matched only by their desire to be and to love: Moritz, Wendell, Melchior, Ilse, Otto and Martha are at the age when urges arise. Shaken by surges of sap that sometimes overwhelm them, they sincerely seek to understand their desires in a world that strives to trivialize them, where the adults themselves are grappling with chaotic libidos.
Can their fantasy be shouted into the student radio microphone? Owned openly? From the repression of the past to the overstimulation of today—in our age of constant chatter—is the blossoming of sexuality less taboo?
From his own free interpretation, David Paquet draws out major themes—sexuality and taboo, domestication and freedom—to allow entirely new buds to blossom.
Ilyas Mettioui is very well supported, notably by choreographer Bérengère Bodin.
