La Parabole du Seum [Parable of the Sour]
8 – 10 October 2026
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.
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
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.
Image Credit
Marikel Lahana
8 – 10 October
8 & 9 October, 6:30pm
10 October, 6pm
€35/32
Please note that an additional €1.50 booking fee is applied per full price ticket at checkout
Space Upstairs
Performed in French with English subtitles
2 hrs 45 mins, no interval