Brûle sorcière !

Theatre & Music — Written and directed by Vanessa Trüb & Viviane Urio

Written and directed by Vanessa Trüb & Viviane Urio
Duration : 1h10 · Ages 12 and up
Bookings : viviane.urio@la-dame-du-lac.ch
Prices : Reduced 15.– | Standard 30.– | Support 40.–

Write to viviane.urio@la-dame-du-lac.ch to receive the recording and the performance dossier.

Dates & venues

Festival « Día de los Muertos » — Friday 31 October at 7 pm

Citykirche Offener St. Jakob — Stauffacherstrasse 34, 8004 Zurich

Premiere with pay-what-you-wish admission

Salle Trocmé — Saturday 1 November at 8 pm · Sunday 2 November at 5 pm

Followed by a round table at 6.30 pm — 2 rue du Jura, 1201 Geneva

Temple des Eaux-Vives — 13, 14, 15 November at 8 pm · 16 November at 5 pm

Followed by a round table at 6.30 pm — Place de Jargonnant 7, 1207 Geneva

Musée International de la Réforme — Sunday 23 November at 6.30 pm

Cocktail discussion with the author and artists at 8 pm — Cr de Saint-Pierre 10, 1204 Geneva

Prices

Geneva: Reduced 15.– | Standard 30.– | Support 40.–

Reduced rate: performing-arts professionals, people in financial difficulty, students and older people.

Music, theatre and dance students from CEGM benefit from a special rate of CHF 7.

Synopsis

In 1626, Rolette Revilliod was burned alive by the Republic of Geneva. Her crime? She had been tried and condemned for witchcraft. Through her story, we work to restore the memory of the thousands of people persecuted and executed in Switzerland at the same time. This performance is an act of restoration and a call to transform a misogynistic legacy. With force and tenderness, depth and lightness, humour and seriousness, Brûle sorcière ! takes you on a musical journey through time. The work was created in the very church where Rolette was imprisoned for 11 years.

Cast & credits

Marie Ruchat: acting
Viviane Urio: voice, cello, acting, direction
Oriane Joubert: piano and acting
Martin Leu: technical direction
Michaël Rolli: dramaturgy
Text: Vanessa Trüb
Original compositions and arrangements: Céline Chalande, Alberto López, Arthur Simoes, Grimoaldo Macchia, Viviane Urio
Repertoire: Béla Bartok, Michel Berger, Nadia Boulanger, Eduardo di Capua, France Gall, Sofia Gubaidulina, Georg Friedrich Haendel, Claudio Monteverdi and Anne Sylvestre

Rolette's legacy — Round tables (Dominique Kuner)

2 November – Salle Trocmé (Geneva) — With: Marie Bokatola (mezzo-soprano), Lena (feminist strike), Coraline Parmentier (pianist), Maya Phenn (engaged author)
16 November – Temple des Eaux-Vives (Geneva) — With: Zoé Blanc-Scuderi (sexologist, SexopraxiS), Carolina Costa (author, actor and pastor), Aurélie Netz (anthropologist)

With the support of the left-bank and right-bank parishes, private donations and the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze.

Press (2024 version)

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Created in the church where Rolette was imprisoned for 11 years.