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La Parabole du Seum [Parable of the Sour]

Compagnie Dans le Ventre

8 – 10 October 2026

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Presented as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2026. Co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival (via Prospero).

The starting point of La Parabole du Seum [Parable of the Sour] is Fear and the necessity it creates to organise in order to survive it. Rébecca Chaillon brings together performers who live on the margins and who actively engage daily with the future and its (im)possibilities.

She moves Heaven and Earth, including her home territory of Seine-Saint-Denis, to broaden the horizon of what is possible, composing a work at once astronomical and astrological which brings together text, performance, visual and sound imagery: a parable of venom and anger which seeks to spark dreams, laughter, empathy, and revolt against the coming fascism.

Performed in French with English subtitles. This is the production’s Irish premiere.

There will be a post-show discussion on 9 Oct with Rébecca Chaillon and members of the company.

Group Group Production Credits

Conception and Text Rébecca Chaillon 

Direction Rébecca Chaillon & Céline Champinot 

Set Design Camille Riquier 

Sound Design Élisa Monteil 

Video Design Elisa Bernard, Boris Carré, Tao Klos, Pauline Millet

Lighting Design Alexia Alexi, Chloé Roger 

Costumes Solenne Capmas

Performed by Yanis Boulahia, Hassan Gourniz, Loulie Houmed, Camille Léon-Fucien, Living Smile Vidya, Nabila Mekkid, Julie Teuf

General management (creation) Suzanne Péchenart

General and stage management (tour) Suzanne Péchenart, Marianne Joffre (alternately) 

Light management Chloé Roger, Selma Yaker (alternately)

Sound management Elisa Monteil, Justine Pommereau (alternately)

Video management Elisa Bernard, Pauline Millet (alternately)

Surtitling Lisa Wegener

Technical support Nicolas Ahssaine

Intern in directing assistance Marie Delpit

Administration, production Élise Bernard, Manon Crochemort and Amandine Loriol Production Direction & Development Mélanie Charreton / Bureau O.u.r.s.a M.I.n.o.r

Group Group Support Credits

Co-produced by

Théâtre Public de Montreuil – CDN, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE), Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna (AT), Les Nuits de Fourvière – Lyon International Metropolis Festival, Comédie de Genève (CH), Le Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg – european stage, Festival d’Avignon, Dublin Theatre Festival (IE), tnba – Théâtre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre, La Criée – Théâtre National de Marseille, Carreau du Temple – cultural and sport institution of Paris, Théâtre Sorano – Scène conventionnée – Toulouse. Coproduction supported by the cross-border program Interreg VI France-Wallonie- Vlaanderen – EMERGE: le Manège Maubeuge – Scène nationale transfrontalière, le phénix – Scène nationale de Valenciennes, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Théâtre de Namur (BE) and Kunstencentrum VierNulVier – Gent (BE). A project selected by the platform Prospero NEW, co-funded by Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Funded by

The Compagnie Dans le ventre is supported by the French Ministry of Culture (DRAC Hauts-de-France)

Supported by

With the support of Pôle International de Production et de Diffusion – SUN, of Théâtre Léo Ferré – Aulnoye-Aymeries and of Générateur – Gentilly. The text was commissioned by the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (MC93) as part of Multitude, the Seine-Saint-Denis Intercultural Biennial.

Group Group Image Credit

Marikel Lahana

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Dates & Times

8 – 10 October

8 & 9 October, 6:30pm

10 October, 6pm

Tickets

€35/32

Please note that an additional €1.50 booking fee is applied per full price ticket at checkout

Space

Space Upstairs

Accessibility

Performed in French with English subtitles

Duration

2 hrs 45 mins, no interval

Warnings
Contains nudity on stage and smoke effects; the performance deals with situations involving fatphobia, queerphobia, racism, sexism, sexual violence and transphobia.

Genres

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