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 2024 - 2025

April 2025

Theater

Mère courage

9/04 11/04/2025
Salle de la Grande Main
Bertolt Brecht's famous text, translated by the rising star of the Flemish stage Lisaboa Houbrechts, into a unique multilingual, musical, and visual universe.

March 2025

Dance

VOICE NOISE

28/03 29/03/2025
Salle de la Grande Main
The celebration of the forgotten women in the history of music, their voices with countless nuances, to do justice to their fabulous harmonies.
Theater

LACRIMA

20/03 21/03/2025
Salle de la Grande Main
A grand choral narrative that tells the story of these shadow workers around the globe, these exceptional seamstresses, patternmakers, embroiderers, at the moment when, amidst the threads of linen and cotton, their lives are about to shift into the silence of secrecy.

February 2025

January 2025

Theater

Good Sex

28/01 07/02/2025
Salle de l’Œil vert
A performance that sheds light on love and physical intimacy, skillfully playing with the theatrics of theater.
Theater

Rage

23/01 25/01/2025
Salle de la Grande Main
A torrent of furious energy to break the chains of patriarchy and ignite the feminist revolt!

December 2024

Dance

Didon et Enée

31/12 02/01/2025
Salle de la Grande Main
The choreographic adaptation of the most tender and moving passage from the Aeneid, a foundational work of Western civilization.
Young public

À Poils

27/12/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
A vast empty space awaits the eager hands of children to build a fabulous decor and unleash colorful... and hairy poetry.
Theater

Tchaïka

26/12 27/12/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
The art of puppetry brought to its peak to tell the story of an old actress, ready to make every effort to take on her final role.
Theater

Oskar et Bianca

11/12 20/12/2024
Salle de l’Œil vert
An homage to our "elders," a dedication to the vibrant and fragile poetry that emerges from their testimonies, signs of lives well-lived.
Dance

Lapis Lazuli

11/12 12/12/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
A hybrid performance – blending dance, theater, and visual arts – that mixes the grotesque, the comic, and the terrifying, pushing the boundaries of the stage.
Theater

KEVIN

4/12 06/12/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
A naïve yet informed look at the foundations, values, and challenges of the school system.

November 2024

October 2024

Famille

Qui som?

11/10 12/10/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
A multidisciplinary spectacle that calls upon all talents to celebrate life and theater as much as possible – and even beyond!
Theater

ICIRORI

8/10 10/10/2024
Salle de l’Œil vert
In a performance that resembles a personal narrative, Consolate turns her story into a profoundly moving political journey and invites the audience to share in it.
Theater

BLOOMING

4/10 05/10/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
The incomparable masterpiece of James Joyce, Ulysses, adapted for the theater to elevate the most mythical of literary odysseys.
Theater

Merveille

2/10 04/10/2024
La Cité Miroir
The journey of an infinitely courageous woman, ready to face all dangers to protect her child and save herself.

September 2024

August 2024

Dance

Dervish

24/08/2024
Salle de la Grande Main
The swirling movements of the famous whirling dervishes modernized by the fervor of Ziya Azazi in a flamboyant show.