January 2025

Wendy and Peter Pan

The first misunderstanding about this work, written in the Victorian era, that is to say between the 19th and 20th centuries, when industrialisation was in full swing and Puritanism was taking hold, is that it could be dismissed as a simple children’s tale. Covering our relationship with time, childhood, and the power of wonder, it has the depth of universal fables and follows in the footsteps of Oscar Wilde’s intense Portrait of Dorian Gray and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Then there’s a director, Jean-Christophe Hembert (we still remember his Fracasse presented in Carouge in 2022), a lover of theatre, literature, and the union of the two that the stage permits, who took this masterpiece and restored its complexity as well as its lightness, placing, as James Matthew Barrie, Wendy before Peter. Under his direction and the talent of his team, the play displays all its dramatic power. As playful as it is scathing, as dark as it is joyful, it reinvents this founding myth at the heart of our times with the virtuosity of reminding us, as the character Flocon tells the audience, that «in this game, pretending is real ».

From James Matthew Barrie
Directed by Jean-Christophe Hembert

From 10 January
To 26 January 2025

Duration 1h30
Main Room
From 12 years old

Schedules
Tuesday – Friday at 7.30 pm
Saturday – Sunday 5 pm

Subtitles in english and french on 18 January 2025

Distribution and Credits

With Bruno Bayeux, Stéphane Bernard, Jacques Chambon, Judith Henry, Agnès Ramy, Eddy Letexier, Loïc Varraut

Adaptation Jean-Christophe Hembert et Loïc Varraut
Director assistant Magdalena Marek
Scenography Fanny Gamet et Jean-Christophe Hembert
Lights Seymour Laval
Music and sound creation Clément Mirguet
Costumes Mina Ly
Make-up and hair Véronique Soulier-Nguyen
Props Fanny Gamet
Stage management Tommy Boisseau

Production Pôle Sud Prod
Coproductions TKM Théâtre Kléber-Méleau Renens, Théâtre de Carouge, Comédie de Saint-Etienne – Centre Dramatique National, GRRRANIT Scène Nationale de Belfort, Le Radiant-Bellevue Caluire, Théâtre de Chartres – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création, Haut Parleur Production
With the support of L’Adami
Created on 8 November 2023 at TKM Théâtre Kléber-Méleau in Renens

Subtitles

On January 18 2025, the Theatre offers a performance with subtitles in French and English.

Subtitles are available on tablets on loan free of charge

They’re very easy to use, and you can read the surtitles from any seat in the theater.

How to reserve a tablet:

> Reserve your seat for a performance with surtitles.
> When you make your reservation, tell the box office that you need a tablet.
By e-mail: billetterie@theatredecarouge.ch
By phone: +41 22 343 43 43
On site: Rue Ancienne 37 A, Carouge
Tuesday to Friday 12h-18h
Saturday 10h14h
> 30 minutes before the show, ask for the tablet at the reception desk, in exchange for your ID.
> After the show, return the tablet to reception and collect your ID

From James Matthew Barrie
Directed by Jean-Christophe Hembert

From 10 January
To 26 January 2025

Duration 1h30
Main Room
From 12 years old

Schedules
Tuesday – Friday at 7.30 pm
Saturday – Sunday 5 pm

Subtitles in english and french on 18 January 2025