The Literary Cabaret, It's seven evenings over the season to bring together literature, Music and performance. here , The emphasis is put on the premises and the committed, in a spirit of discovery and inclusion. The improvised musical & Cie Matea

October 28 and 29, 2022

Two computers. A giant prompter. A piano, a battery, a guitar, Wind instruments. A fully empty play space. Three comedian singers enter. Two writers and two musicians follow them. We see them sitting on small chairs. Start writing, to sing, to play.

And then hop. Here they are exchanging their roles, at full speed. Break the cards, as soon as the signal sounds. It’s a children's game. It's called musical chairs. But it's a show. An improvised musical. Risky. Virtuoso and vulnerable. Who writes before your eyes. On seven small chairs.

Folklore, The party in the square

December 2, 2022

The French -speaking quartet behind the texts and music of the last festival of winegrowers, Invited to present songs and "official" texts in the 2019-2020 Literary Cabaret season, is back ! This time on an arena on a human dimension, With an original creation. Back to the essentials - simple words, Unpublished music - to sing the upcoming legends, Revivify the word "folklore", Beyond the postcard, Fatherland-autisms, Made in Switzerland, "Vaudiseries". To touch, jostle and laugh, all our hearts, And quite simply. It can not be any clearer !

Karaqueer + Karaokids

January 14, 2023


After the success of the 2021 edition, The Karaqueer returns! The principle remains the same: just register the same evening, if you wish it, On the list of participants. A choice of texts, Selected with the greatest attention, is offered by drawing. Go on stage, Turn the wheel of fortune and live your moment of glory by reading texts that we hear too rarely! Everyone is entitled to the chapter: Tonight, it's her, him, you, Al, iels and you who take the microphone to discover, Thanks to the pianist's prompter and improvisations, The nuggets of this literally extraordinary literature. And for the first time: make way for kids! An edition of the "Special Kids" literary karaoke takes place the same afternoon.

Unicorn and thunderbolt

March 11, 2023


An American anti-conventional poet with posthumous success. An English novelist pioneer of feminist magic realism. When Emily Dickinson and Angela Carter meet the verse on the stage of the Literary Cabaret, gathered by the thunderbolt of two artists in full hatch, The magic operates. Only on stage, Ezra Sibyl Benisty reads the poems of Carter gathered in English under the title Unicorn, Combining his writing with hers in a sound carpet embroidery. Lou Ciszewski stages Dickinson's poems like so many charming minimum and intriguing creatures, ready to explode. We are always in danger of magic.

The log burns the boards

March 25, 2023


The log ignites and takes the scene! In a desire to expand its programming to artists from the visual scene, The Literary Cabaret offers a board page to this collective of French comic strip creators who campaigns to enhance the work of women in this art. At each issue, Fanzine or "Log", The artists of the log (almost 90 to date) take a unique look, committed and magical about our world. They are free to draw on this vast repertoire to put our eyes on them, whether through live drawings, of music, Or other forms of performance.


Weavings

April 30, 2023


Several families, connected to each other by distinct wires that we take pleasure in shooting: professionals, friendly, Creative… in the center of this fabric (text and textiles come from the same root?): Alphonse Layaz, writer, painter, journalist. Next to him: Michel, his son, author. From one thing to another, The reason is enriched with new names, new talents. There will be words, voices, marks, images, We will launch ties to other artists, actress, musician, videographers. A game of seven families, artistic and generous, At the time of brunch of course.


Secret evening


May 26, 2023


In March 2022, The Literary Cabaret put in the competition its first scholarship in writing. With an amount of 4,000 CHF, She was addressing anyone active in writing, the music, theater, improvisation or performance, wishing to devote time to writing a scenic form exploring the links between text and music, In the spirit of the literary cabaret. More than forty projects have reached us. In June 2022, The first person winner of this scholarship, intended to become annual, will be revealed. She will have twelve months to write and create, by surrounding himself with artists of his choice, The show that will close the season - in style obviously.