Partages

One morning we wake up and realise that time has passed much faster than we thought.
We’ve been writing shows, performing them and discovering cities in France, Europe and sometimes a little further afield for almost ten years now.
Ten years. Barely.
But I feel like I started the day before yesterday.
Ten years seems like such a short time to write and build something.
It’s still childhood.

Time has flown by.
What will the next few years be like, the years of our adolescence?
This morning, I asked myself how to talk about our company, Lieux-Dits, as I watched time fly by. And the world around me.

But I’m pretending, a little.
I’m exaggerating.
Because we’re not really children anymore.
We ask ourselves questions.
Nothing more.
About what we’re doing.

As time goes by, we open up, we try to work, we weave relationships, we weave stories, we weave time.
Something like that.
We try to make sure there’s one more day. (Because we’re not quite sure it’s that simple. One more day.)
So we write shows, we try to talk about politics, history, science, society, commitment, ecology, love, childhood, hope, light and night.
We want to write and perform shows.
And be a home.

What could it mean to be a “lieu-dit”?
It’s absurd.
You can’t be a “lieu-dit”.

Until proven otherwise.

Building a moving house, a house without walls but with foundations, a house where we could live and put on shows, write and publish books, leave a mark and get together to talk about what we want to protect, try to resist disaster and talk with thinkers and journalists, meet philosophers and students to learn with them, debate with activists and teachers to understand, meet spectators with whom to share time.
To look at the world and say what we want to experience together.
That could be it.
Being a “lieu-dit”.

So we try to do that.

Places to live together.
Without walls.
Because we think that, ultimately, that may be what we need to do to defend ourselves in a world that is burning.
Break down the walls.

Until proven otherwise.

Durables : towards sustainability for performing arts teams: a guide to action, is available for all artistic teams! The result of two years of work, supported by MC93 and DGCA and developed with BDZA – bureau des acclimatations, this guide aims to provide artistic teams with a method focused on action to build a transition towards sustainability in our sector. It is freely available online on the dedicated website (in french).

David Geselson created Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème for his first opera production. His staging places this opera in the context of the revolutionary movements of the 19th century, with the painters, poets and philosophers of the time serving as political and pictorial references. Mimi and Musetta are the emblematic figures of this social freedom, which seeks to triumph in death and love respectively. In doing so, he reveals through these two women a poignant form of commitment: that of loving and living life to the full, even when the outcome is known in advance and everything seems to be working against the possibility of future happiness. This opera is an opportunity for David Geselson to bring together the collaborators of Lieux-Dits (Lisa Navarro, Jérémie Scheidler, Jérémie Papin, Benjamin Moreau and Sophie Bricaire).

On tour
14th to 23rd December 25 Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
8th to 12th February 26 Théâtre de Caen
25th February to 1st March 26 Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
11th to 17th March 26 Opéra de Dijon
27th to 29th March 26 Opéra de Reims
2nd June to 11th July 26 Grange Festival, United-Kingdom – Recreation

From April 2025 to September 2026, we will be working alongside director and playwright Quentin Rioual, artistic director of the Oaqi theatre company, supporting him in the creation of his next project. Je changerai vos fêtes will combine performance, traditional Breton singing and DJ sets to explore the active presence of the dead in our lives. At the same time, following on from Neandertal, on which we already collaborated, we are delighted to have him on board as playwright for our next production. More information about Oaqi.