Ostra Nezeca Productions
Management & booking
Compagnie Canicule
Canicule is a Belgian theatre company founded by Clémentine Colpin, Pauline Desmarets and Olivia Smets. Driven by a desire to step outside the box, it explores hybrid and sensitive forms, blending theatre, performance, and unexpected spaces.
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The company takes shape around a shared artistic language forged over more than ten years of creation; an insatiable desire to offer audiences theatre that is both unifying and demanding; a constant pooling of practices, tools, workloads and production methods; but above all, an urgent and collective need to question the world around us — with heart, humour, boldness and sincerity — in a movement that is at once lucid and vibrant.
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Since 2015, Canicule has been inventing performances in a variety of formats — from a travelling car to an offbeat cabaret — always carried by collective energy and a distinctive artistic voice.
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Annette
To dive into the flesh of a 75-year-old woman as one would enter a forest. To wander through her sensory memories and the winding paths of her mind.To feel the richness and complexity of her existence. To meet Annette.
Some encounters mark you forever.
When Clémentine met Annette, it transformed her relationship to the world. Untameable, filled with an insatiable longing for elsewhere and for freedom, Annette has always managed to break free from the roles imposed on her (mother, wife, woman) to embrace new territories and endlessly reinvent herself.
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Over the course of many conversations, she entrusted Clémentine with more than 70 years of intimate experience, speaking of her choices, the history of her body, her escapes — even the most violent ones. How can one, in return, share the gift of this given memory?
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By bringing Annette, two actresses and two dancers onto the stage, and weaving these memories together with imagined worlds, this landscape-shaped portrait offers a different perspective on old age.
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Between philosophical exploration and carnival celebration, between testament and collective dance, ANNETTE is a tribute to the multitudes we are, to our metamorphoses and our rebirths.
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Conception and direction Clémentine Colpin · Co-conception and artistic collaboration Olivia Smets · Assistant direction Charline Curtelin (XS version), Lila Leloup · Performers Annette Baussart, Pauline Desmarets, Ben Fury, Alex Landa Aguirreche, Olivia Smets · Dramaturgy Sara Vanderieck · Scenography and costumes Camille Collin · Costume making Cinzia Derom · Scenography intern Elisa González (XS version) · Sound design Noée Voisard · Lighting design Nora Boulanger Hirsch · Sound management Noée Voisard and/or Victor Petit · Stage and lighting management Christophe Van Hove / Valentine Bibot / Grégoire Tempels · Support Le Rideau · Le Vilar · Théâtre des Tanneurs · La Coop · Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles · Centre des Écritures Dramatiques Wallonie-Bruxelles · COCOF · SACD · Tour à Plomb · Centre Box120 · Charleroi danse / La Raffinerie · SEN – Studio Étangs Noirs · Shelterprod · Belgian government’s Tax Shelter.
Creation 26-27
Documentary fiction /
Interdisciplinary /
sound - theatre - radio -
movement
Unbelievable!
Have you always dreamed of it? We made it happen! With surprise guests and grandiose decorations that will spark your nostalgia while dazzling your eyes and ears, Unbelievable! invites you to experience the magic of the United States of America — for real!
In Unbelievable!, dreams just might come true, and you could leave with pockets full and eyes shining. Britney Spears might break free from her father, Melania Trump might silence her monstrous husband, and Frank Sinatra might return for one last show.
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In Unbelievable!, anything is possible — for those bold enough to believe. Inspired by the famous adage “fake it until you make it”, the show shamelessly embraces excess and spectacle, only to plunge us, the very next moment, behind the scenes — exposing fragility and violent disillusion.
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Somewhere between cabaret night, fake making-of, and lookalike contest, Unbelievable! borrows the codes of American culture that shaped our imagination, while subtly questioning how our irresistible fascination with dominant fictions allows figures like the terrifying clown Donald Trump to declare themselves presidents.
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Conception Pauline Desmarets · Co-conception & outside eye Clémentine Colpin · Artistic collaboration Olivia Smets · Assistant Zoé Janssens · Performers Raphaël Desmarets, Davis Freeman, Marouan Iddoub, Olivia Smets · Music creation Raphaël Desmarets · Dramaturgy Diane Fourdrignier · Scenography & props Nina Lopez Le Galliard · Costumes Cinzia Derom · General management & lighting design Raphaël Noël · Sound management Jérémie Boutet · Scenography intern Cédric Michel · Supports Mars – Mons arts de la scène · Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles · Latitude 50 – Circus & Street Arts Hub · Le Manège Maubeuge · Les Halles de Schaerbeek · Théâtre Varia · Théâtre de l’Ancre · le BAMP · WBTD – Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre Danse · WBI – Wallonie Bruxelles International · Shelterprod · Taxshelter.be · ING · Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter.