L'Avenir

Stricken with mal de vivre, a number of individuals end up within the walls of an ageing institution, L’Avenir. It welcomes the weary, the miserable, the depressed, all those who, one day, gave up, dreamed of disappearing for a while. At L’Avenir, between two cups of coffee served by an ageless steward, these people train to keep up with the world, to maintain the tempo, by integrating the rules of successful sociability. 
In this breathless place, this fragile community of lonely souls tries to relearn what it takes to engage in the business of life. Trained to become the protagonists of their own lives, to play their part in a society that wears them down, they are plagued by doubt: play the game, yes, but why?

After HOME: Morceaux de nature en ruine and Toutes les villes détruites se ressemblent, the Nature II company, under the impetus of Magrit Coulon, presents the final part of its trilogy of commonplaces. Somewhere between secret polyphony and a choreography for tired bodies, L’Avenir continues the search for a theatre of the ordinary: writing focused on bodies and detail, the time that passes and the time that doesn’t, attention paid to everyday life, which is both funny and sad at the same time.

Première
Création Studio Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles