From 19 to 24/03/2019

Energy to satiety, the miracles sparkling with ideas, the verb high, the opinion sliced, the young companies will disembark and storm many rooms in the Burning City!

For here is already the eighth edition of the Festival Émulation, a precious professional lever put at the disposal of the young theatrical guard coming from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The windfall is to be seized also for the public, which will be able to devote its interest and curiosity to the works of the rising generation, while vivifying its appointments with the alive art.

A jury composed of international programmers will award the Emulation Prize, awarded by the Association of Friends of the Theater of Liège.
A second jury, made up of secondary school students from the Province of Liège, will award the Coup de Coeur.

For a week, the Théâtre de Liège gives a voice to young emerging artists and brings to the fore seven of their creations.

Every evening, after the shows, the Festival Emulation afters welcome you from 22h in a festive and relaxed atmosphere.

With the support of the Club des Entreprises partenaires of the Liège Theater

Festival 2025 - 2026

September 2025

Festival 2023 - 2024

May 2024

April 2024

Theater

Punch Life

23/04 25/04/2024
Centre Culturel Les Chiroux
A play in which the harsh realities and mechanics that sometimes hide behind social graces are revealed.
Theater

Zazie dans le métro

10/04 13/04/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
Zabou Breitman has transformed Raymond Queneau’s masterpiece into a musical comedy full of passion and fantasy, like young Zazie herself.
Theater

Jerusalem

2/04 06/04/2024
Salle de l’Œil vert
An odyssey through the lives of our ancestors and their suffering, in order to heal the wounds of contemporary society and to finally move forward together !

March 2024

Theater

George de Molière

27/03 30/03/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Molière’s contribution to the Grand Divertissement, has been transposed into a hallucinatory and carnivalesque world that cheerfully borders on musical comedy.
Theater

The Employees

21/03 22/03/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
At the intersection between performance, installation, concert, cinema and theatre, The Employees is a comprehensive work that redefines the boundaries of theatre.
Theater

Entracte

10/03 15/03/2024
Salle de l’Œil vert
The story of two actors confined to their homes, haunted by their overwhelming desire to be on stage, who tirelessly continue to perform in order to affirm their desire to live !
Theater

Peer Gynt

10/03 15/03/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
Guillemette Laurent and Yoann Blanc revisit Ibsen’s classic with a light and fresh touch, accompanied by twenty amateurs, like a new way of producing theatre.

February 2024

Theater

Sorry

23/02 24/02/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
Bobo Jelčić, in close collaboration with his actors, explores life through art, in which reality and imagination merge.

January 2024

Dance

One Shot

26/01 27/01/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
A powerful corps de ballet, comprised of eight women who share the stage to joyfully confront their creative singularity !
Theater

Œdipus

16/01 20/01/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
Sophocles’ ancient myth, inscribed at the heart of our times, combines power games and familial silences, reimagined around a modern and revitalised Jocasta.

December 2023

Theater

J’ai une épée

13/12 15/12/2023
Salle de la Grande Main
A theatrical journey to the heart of the world of childhood, like so many potential worlds, in order to (re)learn how to see through their eyes and alter our fixed worlds.

November 2023

Theater

SAIGON

24/11 25/11/2023
Salle de la Grande Main
In a Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of Paris, where songs are sung to keep memories alive, the wounds of exile emerge, demonstrating the full power and tenderness of family ties.
Dance

Jérôme Bel

21/11 22/11/2023
Salle de l’Œil vert
The choreographic autobiography of one of the greatest contemporary directors, as reinterpreted by Ayelen Parolin.
Theater

Le Jardin

15/11 18/11/2023
Salle de l’Œil vert
A hilarious stage play that borrows from the sacred, dirty songs, Italian cinema, Mylène Farmer and Monty Python and offers a unique creation with an absurd and joyous sense of humour!
Theater

The Confessions

15/11 18/11/2023
Salle de la Grande Main
The portrait of a full life and a whole woman, recounted from birth to death, through her confessions about love.

October 2023

Theater

Bellissima

18/10 21/10/2023
Salle de la Grande Main
A touching and incisive look at the fantasies and mirages of the seventh art, freely inspired by the film of the same name by Luchino Visconti.

September 2023

Theater

Andromaque

1/10 06/10/2023
Salle de la Grande Main
Racine’s classic tragedy in its original language, softened by the musical accompaniment of a quartet on stage.
Dance

Mycelium

22/09 23/09/2023
Salle de la Grande Main
Through twenty dancers on stage, Christos Papadopoulous draws his inspiration from the natural world and his ability to communicate wordlessly in order to create a new, collective approach to creativity.