Nuisibles
Co-productions: Le Tangram - National Stage of Évreux (27) // Le PIVO - Traveling Pole in Val d'Oise (95) // Animakt - Saulx les Chartreux (91) // Victor Hugo Theater - Bagneux (92) // The Pole - Arts in Circulation - Le Revest les Eaux (83) // Terre de Paroles Festival (76)
With the support of: ARTCENA - Author in Tandem Scheme Chalon dans la rue / L'Abattoir – CNAREP, L'Atelline – National Interest Art and Creation Conventioned Stage, L'Espace des Arts - National Stage of Chalon-sur-Saône, La Chartreuse - National Center for Performance Writing, Le Théâtre de la Manufacture - CDN Nancy Lorraine and Les Scènes du Golfe - National Interest Art and Creation Conventioned Stage // CNAREP, l'Atelier 231 - Sotteville-lès-Rouen (76)
Creation Spring 2026
Summary:
In a rat-infested suburb, residents, all night workers, gather after one of their children is bitten. The image of this child, a rat dangling from his bloody hand, floats in everyone's mind. What to do? A caregiver, a cleaning lady, a parking attendant, a party-loving night owl, and a rat specialist chaotically try to find a solution. But from the initial question—how to eradicate the rats that have invaded us—flows a collective reflection on the responsibility of power, their own invisibility in the eyes of those who decide, and on the rats themselves: who are really whose pests? From a neighborhood meeting to a stroll by residents ready to make themselves visible, Nuisibles proposes to embark the public on an act of collective power.
Who are the “pests”?
It's true that we say this about rats, which swarm at night, which move in groups, which are active when everyone is asleep, and which we hunt with poison and tracking.
But sometimes, also, of those who populate the city at night, and our streets, and our sewers, and our myths.
In the silence of the night, an entire people stirs, those who are silent, those who are not seen, who work silently in basements, parking lots, hotels, or sidewalks. Indispensable, and invisible. But at the turn of a gathering of these people of the night, they become visible. And therefore... harmful.
Harmful to whom?
Nuisibles is a neighborhood meeting followed by a nighttime stroll for five international actors, three (real) rats and an audience exploring the city.
Les résidences de création
Du 24 au 30 Novembre 2025
Animakt - Saulx les Chartreux (91)
Du 3 au 6 Décembre 2025
CNAREP Atelier 231 - Sottevilles-lès-Rouen (76)
Du 17 au 20 Décembre 2025
Théâtre Charles Dullin - Le Grand-Quevilly (76)
Du 23 Février au 1er Mars 2026
CNAREP Chalon dans la Rue - Chalon-sur-Saônne (71)
Du 16 au 28 Mars 2026
Le Pôle - Arts en Circulation - Le Revest les Eaux (83)
Du 30 Mars au 4 Avril 2026
La Lisière - Bruyères le Chatel (91)
Du 13 au 26 Avril 2026
CNAREP Atelier Frappaz - Villeurbanne (69)
Past residencies
From December 15 to 19, 2024
Les Scènes du Golfe - National Interest Conventioned Scene Art and Creation - Vannes (56)
From January 7 to 11, 2025
L'Atelline – National Interest Conventioned Stage Art and Creation - Juvignac (34)
From February 17 to 23, 2025
La Chartreuse - National Center for Performing Arts Writing - Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (30)
From March 3 to 7, 2025
The Slaughterhouse – CNAREP - Chalon sur Saône (71)
From June 2 to 7, 2025
The Arts Space - National Stage of Chalon-sur-Saône (71)
L'équipe
Direction Artistique et Mise en scène Thylda Barès & Paul Colom
Écriture
Laurie Guin
Distribution
Thylda Barès, Paul Colom ou Nathan Chouchana, Harry Kearton, Kyra Van Denenden, Koromoutou Sidibé
Création musicale
Quentin Postel
Conception et Création Sonore
Paul Colom - Damien Gallot - Nyls Barès
Scénographie et Construction
Aurélien Izard
Régie générale
Sebastien Roman ou Damien Gallot