Theatre
Language: French
Subtitles: German

Direction: Sophie Langevin
Text: Ian De Toffoli
Scenography and costumes: Marie-Luce Theis
Dramaturgy: Mikaël Serre
Lights: Mathias Roche
Video creation: Anne Braun
Sound creation: Rajivan Ayyappan
Cast: Garance Clavel, Denis Jousselin, Renelde Pierlot, Luc Schiltz, Pitt Simon
Production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Coproduction: Théâtre de Liège

In AppHuman, a panel of four scientific experts discuss the consequences of the advance of new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, on their daily lives. Their opinions differ on the question of the morality of machines. To illustrate their point, they decide to illustrate a case study: they invent a fiction, an allegorical story about a group of friends who, on one evening, find themselves in an accident involving a new model of autonomous car, developed by the company. Technology they work for. We not only discover that a passerby was run over, but that the car did not run over her at random. Following a scale of values, economic and social, the software at the controls of the autonomous vehicle made a deliberate decision, thus avoiding a second pedestrian on the other side of the street.

In a mixture of theatre and science, AppHuman poses the question of the human being faced with the massive technologization of the world, with all that implies the fusion of man and machine through the algorithms that manage networks, social media and smartphones, mass surveillance, the use that technology companies make of personal data and, above all, the issue of bias and ethics in a world ruled by automated systems.

Venue: Théâtre des Capucins
9, Place du Théâtre
L-2613 Luxembourg

The Théâtre National du Luxembourg was created in 1996, following the tremendous momentum generated by “Luxembourg – European Capital of Culture 1995”. The TNL wants to serve as a relay in the internationalisation of theater in Luxembourg which, in turn, finds its true national identity in a European environment. A true hub between Romanesque and Germanic cultures, Luxembourg can thus become an important center of European theatre. Since its creation, the TNL has continued to work in this direction with undeniable success which has been recognized by the national and international press, by the public who come in thousands to attend its often ambitious shows as well as by the hundreds of artists and technicians who collaborated.

By opening, on the one hand, a breach abroad for all Luxembourg artists working in the theater professions and by inviting, on the other hand, internationally renowned artists to Luxembourg to involve them, through co-productions, to creations from Luxembourg, the TNL can serve as a showcase for all the national dramatic art.

The systematic export of quality Luxembourg productions in the field of theater and opera, and the constant concern to see Luxembourg culture radiate abroad, will ensure Luxembourg theater its survival, if not its notoriety. Faithful to its activities developed since its creation, the TNL has two vocations: to be a language and literature theater – and this in the languages ​​used in Luxembourg, Luxembourgish, French, German, English and Portuguese -, as well as a theater of opera and contemporary musical creation, in close liaison with the various orchestras of Luxembourg. Furthermore, the TNL is understood as a theater of creation in general, and Luxembourg authors and composers must find in it their point of reference.

Venue: Théâtre National du Luxembourg
194 route de Longwy
L-1940 Luxembourg

Independent Little Lies (ILL) is an interdisciplinary theatre collective that brings together theatre makers, artists, pedagogues and art enthusiasts. Our productions and cultural events address contemporary and social issues in four different languages. Founded in 1995, ILL has been around the Luxembourg cultural scene for more than 25 years now. We are in a constant state of reinventing ourselves, building up new collaborations with artists and co-producers from Luxembourg and abroad, challenging the traditional boundaries of live performance and giving emerging artists from the most various backgrounds the opportunity to develop their creativity.

ILL has been active on an international level since 2007, be it in the form of co-productions or guest performances. In 2013-15 ILL set up a participatory EU project (Grundtvig program), Playing a Part, with a Tuscan theatre and a Catalan company. In 2018 ILL was invited to international festivals with two productions: Mein Arm (by Tim Crouch and Linda Bonvini) was shown at the FRiNGE Festival of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and Blackout (by Claire Thill) at the Prague German Language Theater Festival. There were other appearances of various projects at WUK (Vienna), at the Théâtre des Enfants Terribles (Paris), at the Théâtre National de Pristina (Kosovo), at the Salle des fêtes de Nanterre, at the Teatro Excelsior (Reggello), at the Teatre Akadèmia (Barcelona), etc.

In 2017, ILL launched the participatory and cross-generational theatre project Biergerbühn in Esch-sur-Alzette. These weekly workshops bring children and young people closer to theatre. In the meantime, the young participants of the Biergerbühn have developed 3 pieces and a radio play. In 2021, the first group of adult citizens will work on a new version of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Die Besuch der alten Damen, in a production by Claire Thill, in which professional actors and citizens stand together on the stage. In the same year, the collective moves into the new alternative venue in Esch, Bâtiment 4, where work on a large in-house creation on the Biergerbühn will begin in early 2022: Doheem – Fragments d’intimités. Led by Elsa Rauchs and Claire Wagener, this project is based on the concept of “home” and life in the city of Esch. Together with professional artists, the citizens will develop a project that will be performed in July 2022 as part of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022 in the FerroForum in Esch / Schifflange.

Venue: Grand théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
1, rond-point Schuman
L-2525 Luxembourg

Sophie Langevin is a performer, theatre and film director who likes to venture off the beaten tracks. She is now artistic director of the newly founded creative structure: JUNCTIO.

She trained at the Luxembourg Conservatory, at the Ecole du Théâtre de l’Ombre in Paris and at the Kleine Academie in Brussels. She has performed until today in more than fifty plays mainly in Luxembourg and France under the direction of Marc Olinger, Daniel Zerki, Louis Bonnet, Daniel Benoin, Paul Charieras and Stéphane Ghislain Roussels.

From 1994, she shot her first short fiction films: Biouel, Schmol, Côtes Sauvages with Jako Raybaut (several times awarded at international festivals) as well as portraits of visual artists.

Between 2005 and 2007, she collaborated as director with Richard Brunel, Marja-Leena Junker and Laurent Hatat and began an accomplice in collaboration with the puppetry company La SOUPE with whom she produced the video clips for Je Hurle ( 2019).

As of 2008, she is particularly interested in contemporary writing and created : Je ne suis jamais allé à Bagdad by Abel Neves, La nuit juste avant les forêts by B.M Koltès, Winter by Jon Fosse, Les Pas Perdus by Denise Bonal, Histoires de Famille by Biljana Srbljanovic, À portée de crachat by Taher Najib, Illusions by Ivan Viripaev and Revolt.She said.Revolt again by Alice Birch (selected by the Luxembourg Theater Federation for the Avignon Festival 2019) .

In 2014, she made an important encounter that would open up a new field of research in her career and make her take a different look at creation. With Stéphanie Laruade and Bohumil Kostohryz, she created the Luxembourg Pavilion Modernity, loved, hated or ignored? for the Venice Architecture Biennale.

In 2019, she opened a new chapter in her theatrical work and began more documentary creation projects with AppHuman, a show on artificial intelligence, at the Théâtres de la Ville with the author Ian de Toffoli and at the Escher Theater Les frontalières – Terra Incognita, a play on the life of border workers in a stage version and in the form of podcasts broadcast on RTL.

2021 marks a turning point in her work. She will create several performances and visual installations with the creative team of the EKINOX project as part of Esch22 European Capital of Culture, as well as during the Luxemburger ArtWeek with Avait-elle jamais dormi, a live and sound performance of 6 ‘on insomnia for one single spectator.

Venue: Grand théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
1, rond-point Schuman
L-2525 Luxembourg

Responding to the common name of Theaters of the City of Luxembourg, the Grand Théâtre and the Théâtre des Capucins present an eclectic program, representative of what is sung, played and danced on national and international stages, with a constant demand for quality, inclusive, and always motivated by the desire to meet the expectations of a cosmopolitan audience.

Located at the intersection of the Kirchberg and Limpertsberg districts, the Grand Théâtre serves as an opera, dance and theatre house. It hosts and co-produces operas, musical theater, dance performances and plays most frequently in the original language (French, German, English, Luxembourgish, etc.) and collaborates with prestigious houses such as the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, the Théâtre national de Chaillot, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris), the Théâtre de Caen, Sadler’s Wells (London), La Monnaie de Bruxelles, the Opéra-Comique de Paris, the Deutsches Theater and Deutsche Oper (Berlin) as well as international festivals such as the Festival d’Avignon.

In the heart of the city, the Théâtre des Capucins is one of the witnesses to the turbulent history of the City of Luxembourg. Successively convent of the Capuchin monks, grain store, theatre, place without affectation, it was renovated in 1985. Giving a large place to the dramatic creation, it offers to the spectators the possibility of discovering artists coming from the four corners of Europe.

Venue: Grand théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
1, rond-point Schuman
L-2525 Luxembourg

Theatre
Language: French
Subtitles: German

Direction: Sophie Langevin
Text: Ian De Toffoli
Scenography and costumes: Marie-Luce Theis
Dramaturgy: Mikaël Serre
Lights: Mathias Roche
Video creation: Anne Braun
Sound creation: Rajivan Ayyappan
Cast: Garance Clavel, Denis Jousselin, Renelde Pierlot, Luc Schiltz, Pitt Simon
Production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Coproduction: Théâtre de Liège

In AppHuman, a panel of four scientific experts discuss the consequences of the advance of new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, on their daily lives. Their opinions differ on the question of the morality of machines. To illustrate their point, they decide to illustrate a case study: they invent a fiction, an allegorical story about a group of friends who, on one evening, find themselves in an accident involving a new model of autonomous car, developed by the company. Technology they work for. We not only discover that a passerby was run over, but that the car did not run over her at random. Following a scale of values, economic and social, the software at the controls of the autonomous vehicle made a deliberate decision, thus avoiding a second pedestrian on the other side of the street.

In a mixture of theatre and science, AppHuman poses the question of the human being faced with the massive technologization of the world, with all that implies the fusion of man and machine through the algorithms that manage networks, social media and smartphones, mass surveillance, the use that technology companies make of personal data and, above all, the issue of bias and ethics in a world ruled by automated systems.

Venue: Théâtre des Capucins
9, Place du Théâtre
L-2613 Luxembourg

19:00 : Introduction by Carole Lorang

Theatre
Language: German

Direction: Ulrich Waller
Text: Kristof Frank
Scenography: Raimund Bauer
Cast: Luc Feit, André Jung
Production: Escher Theater
Coproduction: Esch2022 European capital of culture ; Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg ; St. Pauli Theater, Hamburg

René Deltgen was 19 when he left Luxembourg to study acting in Cologne. The “Escher Jong” was celebrated dizzyingly quickly by the public and the press for its body-hugging game and its unaffected tone. When the Nazis took power, he was part of the first German actor guard. Like many of his colleagues, he got caught in Goebbels spider webs. He became a state actor by Hitler’s grace.

However, the Luxembourger fell out of favour with his compatriots. Outraged by his signature on two Nazi manifestos, they condemned him as a collaborator after the war. In Germany, however, he successfully continued his career.

The Luxembourg actors, André Jung and Luc Feit, who are successful in Germany, tell of difficult moments in the life of their famous colleague, questioning his actions in the field of tension between art and politics. Many questions are answered, with another one cannot get beyond guesswork. May the viewer make their own judgment. Actors are not judges, they are storytellers.

Venue: Escher Theater
120, rue de l’Alzette
L-4010 Esch-sur-Alzette

As part of Esch 2022

The Konschthal Esch invites Filip Markiewicz to launch its 2022 program with a monographic project presenting a new cycle of paintings and sculptures. The Instant Comedy exhibition takes the title of a song from the new album Ultrasocial Pop by Raftside (his musical project) and deals with the cruel velocity of social networks which expose, overexpose, go so far as to judge and condemn in a few fragments of a second. Filip Markiewicz’s work is filled with direct allusions to current events while using quotations borrowed from the history of art and the world of ideas. For this collaboration with the Konschthal Esch, the artist takes up this cross-over by confronting, among other things, Shakespeare’s texts with the aesthetics and forms of transmission of the 21st century.

This exhibition takes place as part of the inaugurations of Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture. It will be accompanied until the end of May 2022 by a framework program aimed at the public. At the same time, the Konschthal continues to transform its spaces and its architecture.

Filip Markiewicz (born in 1980 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) is a visual artist who expresses himself through various mediums such as drawing, painting, music, video, installation and performance. He represented Luxembourg in 2015 at the 56th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art with his project Paradiso Lussemburgo. Since 1999 he has been creating musical compositions for films, theater and installations under the name Raftside.

Venue: Konschthal
29-33 boulevard Prince Henri
L-4280 Esch-sur-Alzette

Trained as an actress, Myriam Müller has played many roles in French, German, Luxembourgish and English: Molière, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Coward, Ibsen, Bergman, H. Levin, Sophocles, Kroetz, Tchekhov, Claudel.

She has also directed two short films selected in numerous festivals and continues a career as a film actress. She teaches at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg. Since 2008, she has devoted herself more and more to directing for the Théâtre du Centaure (a theatre she has directed since 2014) and with the Theaters of the City of Luxembourg.
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is her directorial debut, following ea. Le Misanthrope by Molière, Pour une heure plus belle based on three short plays by Daniel Keene, Blind Date by Théo van Gogh, Dom Juan by Molière, Oncle Vania by Tchekhov, Love & Money by Dennis Kelly, Rumpelstilzchen written by Brothers Grimm by Ian De Toffoli, Anéantis by Sarah Kane, Mesure pour Mesure by Shakespeare, Breaking the Waves from the screenplay by Lars von Trier, Terreur by F. von Schirach, Ivanov by Chekhov, Hamlet by Shakespeare, Liliom by F. Molnar and now  Juste la fin du monde by Lagarce.

Enjoying more and more an international career, some shows produced by the Theaters of the City of Luxembourg have international tours (France, Belgium, Croatia).

She showed Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2022 at the Theaters of Luxembourg City, as well as Elena (based on a film by A. Zviaguintsev) in 2023.

Project leader: PitchBlack Collective
Based on an original idea by Catherine Elsen and Charlotte Bruneau
With: Catherine Elsen, Charlotte Bruneau, Laura Mannelli, Pouya Ehsaei, Wesley Allsbrook, Gluk Media, Mad Trix, Stefan Palitov, René Huari Alejandro Mateus, Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Natacha Crawford
Production: Emilie Roi, Frédérique Colling, Hélène Walland
Making-of: Paula Onet
Produced by: Bidibul Productions and PitchBlack Collective

The Assembly is a multisensory journey in a world where your movements become sounds. As you move from virtual reality to human assembly, you use your movements and various digital interfaces to create a collective song that rings out in The Assembly. It is a multiplayer virtual reality (VR) experience, integrated into an interactive installation that transforms into a performance stage at night. The virtual reality experience, installation and performance can be experienced individually or in combination.

Inspired by the universal tradition of collective singing, The Assembly revisits this ancestral practice by using digital as a conductive surface that transforms bodily movement into a plural voice.

A virtual reality experience
In the VR experience, you dance with other players to the sound of dreamy melodies and electronic beats you create together.Accompanied by the mystical figure of Memory of the Voice (MoV), you are part of a multidimensional instrument and play with the sounds placed all around you in this first assembly.

An interactive installation
As you leave the virtual world, you are immersed in the heart of an interactive installation. You walk through a labyrinth of veils, touch the objects around you and play with light to create and transform sounds that draw their strength from the human voice. But you can also stay at the edge of this immersive experience to observe and listen to the collective song of this second assembly.

A participatory performance
At night, the mystical creature of the Memory of the Voice reappears, embodied by a performance artist and an electronic musician who brings you together for a third gathering. This performance-concert invites you to observe a show while revisiting the digital interfaces, placed in the space around you to create a new collective instrument.

Venue: Opderschmelz
1a, rue du centenaire
L-3475 Dudelange

As part as Esch 2022.

Pascale Noé Adam was born in Luxembourg and grew up near Marseille where she began studying French literature before devoting herself to the theatre.

In 2005 she left Montpellier, where she was taking drama lessons at the Compagnie Maritime, to continue training in Berlin. She shelved her learning of classical theatre for a year, to make a foray into physical theatre, then enrolled in the German-Polish school Transformschauspielschule.

She participates in the Sibiu Festival in Romania, under the direction of Romanian director Vlad Massaci in Büchner’s Woyzeck, as well as cross-border productions dedicated to adolescents and performed in German and French throughout the Greater Region. In 2017, another important and formative project for her, Die Antigone des Sophokles by Brecht directed by Bernard Eusterschulte, will bring her back to Romania, for a few months this time, before playing the show also in Germany and Luxembourg.

Under the direction of Jean de Pange, director of the Messina Astrov company, she played for several years in Champs de mines by Pamela Dürr. To this day she continues to collaborate with the Astrov company as an actress, but also as an assistant director. She also assists other directors, such as Sophie Langevin, or Frank Hoffmann with whom she regularly goes to work in the big German Staatstheaters.

In 2017, she founded with her twin sister Nathalie, who is a visual artist, Bombyx, an artists’ collective whose vocation is to bring together performing and visual artists. Together they create shows (Roulez Jeunesse, Luc Tartar. Emma K., Giuseppe Lonobile), artistic performances and exhibitions (Ode à la boue, Antidote fiction…).

Venue: Opderschmelz
1a, rue du centenaire
L-3475 Dudelange

The opening of an European Capital of Culture is already a unique experience in itself. But the REMIX Opening of Esch2022 is also an extraordinary participatory experience where your presence is crucial.

Because this time, it is you, the inhabitants and visitors of all ages, from the Esch2022 territory, the Greater Region, Europe and the whole world who will be in charge!

An adventure as crazy as it is innovative for the many participants in the event!

In different spots, on stages and on every street corner, you’ll discover live music, DJs sets, dance performances, projection mappings, light installations and a wide range of live entertainment events that are just as spectacular as they are unusual.

Location: Esch-sur-Alzette & Esch-Belval

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