Séverine Chavrier
Occupations
decemberdec 4 – 15
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Thursday december 4
20h
Friday december 5
20h
Saturday december 6
18h
Sunday december 7
16h
Monday december 8
20h
Thursday december 11
20h
Friday december 12
20h
Saturday december 13
18h
Sunday december 14
16h
Monday december 15
20h
With Hugo Cardinali, Jimy Lapert, Jasmin Sisti and Judit Waeterschoot. Stage directio, text and sound Séverine Chavrier. Video Quentin Vigier. Sound Simon d'Anselme de Puisaye. Set design Louise Sari. Lighting Jérémie Cusenier and Alexandre Schreiber. Assistant directors Adèle Joulin. Set design, costume and prop assistants Maria-Clara Castioni and Margaux Moulin. Dramaturgical advice Noémi Michel and Antoine Girard, and all the administrative and technical teams at the Comédie de Genève. Set construction Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève.
Quotations from the works of Annie Ernaux (Passion simple, Les Années, Mémoires de fille, L’Occupation, Se perdre), Paul B. Preciado (Pornotopie, La Société contre sexuelle), Iris Brey (Le Regard féminin), Kim de l’Horizon (Hêtre pourpre), Catherine Clément (L’Opéra ou la défaite des femmes) and Judith Butler (Gender Trouble).
Production Comédie de Genève
Coproduction T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers - Centre Dramatique National ; le Festival d'Automne à Paris
Created on 19 November 2025 at the Comédie de Genève.
The T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-presenting this show.
What are the new politics of love? What is the extent of transgression and politics that the act of love necessarily involves? Following on from Absalon, Absalon!, this new piece by Séverine Chavrier, entitled Occupations, or “formerly”, looks into intimacy and female desire.
Drawing on a vast body of work, ranging from Duras to Ernaux, taking in Debré on the way, the director continues her exploration of the various tensions that exist between the visible and the hidden. This is made possible by means of a staging that questions the relationships between ancient and contemporary, the digital and the book-based, musealization and ordinary everyday life. She draws up a unique cartography, in which feminist resistance does not always turn into productive empowerment, but rather, at times, into that of a dangerous form of abandonment, and temporary anomie. In today’s world, who can give in to passion to the point of becoming its morbid plaything? And at what cost, what latent form of activism upholds it? Séverine Chavrier sees writing and theatre as a performative act of re-appropriation of the body, which has the capacity to reconfigure contemporary modes of love and desire, outside of Western normative frameworks. In this her first collaboration with the Festival d'Automne, the artist returns to a more intimate, pared-down form, but which is no less powerful.
In the same place
Metro 13 - Gabriel Péri
Bus 54, 140, 175, 177 - Place Voltaire ou bien + Lignes 235, 276, 340, 577 - Gabriel Péri