Drawing on the tools of personal writing, oral storytelling and fiction, Mille and Alissia from the theatre company 88 mètres/seconde invite you to explore family ties – whether by blood and/or by choice. A two and a half hours workshop to write, share and keep secrets; to demystify the act of writing, have fun and create together, following on from their show, »Le Grand Soir«, which explores father-child relationships. The workshop will consist of a writing warm-up, several exercises supported by additional texts and visual aids, as well as several opportunities to share and a final discussion session. There is a limit of 15 participants. If you’re interested but the price is too high for you, feel free to reach out via mail (lelampenfieber@theaterimnu.de). Directed by Mille Zhong and Alissia Pervozvanski-Dangles, the goals of the company 88 mètres/seconde are to create bold, ambitious, lesbian, and decolonial work, blending physical theatre and experimental performance to advocate for radical representation, healing, and political change. During this week, 88 mètres/seconde will also perform their show »Le Grand Soir«. Both »Famili(es) – a writing workshop« and »Le Grand Soir« are part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 festival »Are We A Thing?«.

In a society that tends to separate the body, the voice, and speech, this workshop brings them back together. The voice cannot fully express itself without the body, and the body cannot truly resonate without speech. In a world where it is often difficult for people from the Global Majority to speak up and make their voices heard, I created this space to: • explore and embody your voice• reconnect with your presence• dare to take up space and affirm yourself This workshop is not reserved for artists. It is open to anyone who wishes to explore their voice, their presence, and their relationship to the world. Priority is given to people from the Global Majority, while remaining open to everyone.During one afternoon, we will explore: 1. Body & Voice: posture, breath, energy, and resonance.2. Rhythm, Gesture & Movement: freeing speech through the body.3. Emotions & Self-Awareness: identifying and moving through internal blocks.4. Practice & Sharing: practical exercises, guided explorations, and supportive feedback. There is a limit of 12 participants. If you’re interested but the price is too high for you, feel free to reach out via mail (lelampenfieber@theaterimnu.de). Massandje Sanogo is a performance artist, writer, and director. Her work lies at the intersection of the body, sound, and image, drawing on bodily memory and improvisation. Drawing on intimate narratives tied to Black and Afro-descendant identities, she creates spaces of resonance between individual experiences and shared narratives. On 29.9. and 4.10., Massandje Sanogo will also show her performance »Rapport sur ma vie antérieure de femme noire«. Both »Oxygène’s Workshop« and »Rapport sur ma vie antérieure de femme noire« are part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 festival »Are We A Thing?«.

»Embrasser le chaos« is a gesture at the crossroads of theatre, storytelling arts and music. It is the quest of two narrators starved of story, seeking to break free from their shackles and reveal what fiction has concealed for too long. Live music accompanies them. It is the accomplice of the narratives, weaving and transforming the stories, which sometimes shift into song. Through the journeys of Lucie and Léonora, two young women wrestling with the narratives that confine them, the play questions the necessity of reclaiming one’s own story. Léonora attempts to escape the oppressive romantic patterns and the abuse that have shaped her, while Lucie, a masked autistic woman, confronts the norms of a world that refuses to see her. These characters eventually meet, support one another, and untie the silences that had kept them muzzled. Between emancipation and reinvention, they deconstruct their inheritances and trace, together, the contours of a new mythology. Based in Seine-Saint-Denis, the collectif particules fines explores contemporary forms of storytelling, between theatre, performance and sound creation. Their work places the relationship with the audience at the heart of a reflection on the narratives that shape us. After the show on 2.10., Marilyn Nova White will perform »You Are Hired #3«, a solo drag show about work, identity and empowerment in late capitalism.A conversation with the artists will take place after the show on 3.10.»Embrasser le chaos« is part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 festival »Are We A Thing?«.

An imperfect evening of theatre becomes a mirror of inner upheaval: Marianne dreams of a glamorous debut as a female icon in the spotlight — with dance, song and breathtaking costumes. But the audience arrives too early, meeting Marianne not in the radiance of perfection, but in vulnerability and uncertainty. Despite the adverse circumstances, Marianne holds fast to her dream. In doing so, the unfinished becomes a central element: it opens up a space in which desires, struggles and the complex entanglements of queer identity are negotiated. Paul Marianne Furtwängler, born in 1999 in Munich, completed a Master’s in Expanded Theatre at the HKB Bern in 2025. Their work focuses on the intersection of acting, movement and queer forms of storytelling. Before the show on 29.9., the curators will kick off the festival with a short speech. A conversation with the artist will take place after the show. The opening evening will then continue with a few surprises, including a performance by Mohamad Moe Sabbah and music.»Mariannes großes Debüt« is part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 festival »Are We A Thing?«.

Elise and Sarah, both born in the 90s, search, rummage through and falsify their respective childhoods, unravelling their threads to create their own mythology of love. Armed with curiosity and a touch of madness, they embark on an intrepid journey inward. Their writing companions are Carmen Maria Machado and her reflections on enmeshed relationships and violence within same-gender couples, Yann Andréa and his writings on his all-consuming love for Marguerite Duras, and Dorothy Allison and her thinking on the making of desire. They weave a complex fabric of autofiction and a grand conscious dream stretching from Lyon to Grenoble, from Forks to Transylvania. Their stories intertwine into parallel chronologies, lives they would have liked to live and others they wish to undo. Always in the background, one question: how can they be sure to end up together on the same beach? The Compagnie troisbatailles was founded in 2022 by Sarah Delaby-Rochette in the Drôme and has been affiliated with the Comédie de Valence for three years since 2024. It works on contemporary texts and fictional narratives set in rural areas and peri-urban transition zones, in close collaboration with contemporary writers. Its productions include Dany coiffure (2021, a solo piece with Gaïa Oliarj-Inés), Gloria Gloria by Marcos Caramés-Blanco (2023, winner of the Prix Incandescences and the Prix Prémisses 2022), Buster, my love with Élise Martin (2024, performed at the Théâtre de l’Athénée Louis Jouvet, amongst others), and A sec by Marcos Caramés-Blanco (2025, Comédie de Valence). A conversation with the artists will take place after the show on 30.9.»Buster, my love« is part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 Festivals »Are We A Thing?«.

Mille and Alissia have a lot in common: lesbianism, Dads who live in former Communist-turned-Capitalist-Dictatorship countries thousands of kilometres away, an obsession for raw red peppers. In this Sino-Russian version of Les Misérables meets Never Have I Ever, they invite you to a vibrant, biting and sincere celebration of daddy issues, queer friendships, Communist history… and multilingual forgiveness. Expect some physical theatre, singing rituals, Russian pickles, Chinese tea, and dramatic PowerPoints, as their explore their relationships with each other, their Dads, and politics. Ready for the ride? Directed by Mille Zhong and Alissia Pervozvanski-Dangles, the goals of the company 88 mètres/seconde are to create bold, ambitious, lesbian, and decolonial work, blending physical theatre and experimental performance to advocate for radical representation, healing, and political change. After the show on 1.10., a surprise will be waiting for you.After the show on 2.10., an artist talk will take place. That week, the group 88 mètres/seconde will also host the lab »Famili(es) – a writing workshop«.Both »Le Grand soir« and »Famili(es) – a writing workshop« are part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 festival »Are We A Thing?«.

Too Black for the theater world, too white for my mother, I chose the stage as an escape. »Report on My Past Life as a Black Woman« is a hybrid one-woman show blending dance, DJing, and storytelling. Behind the turntables, I deconstruct Afro-electronic sounds, from Amapiano to Gqom, to tell the story of a dual existence and explore the contradictions that run through it. Massandje Sanogo is a performance artist, writer, and director. Her work lies at the intersection of the body, sound, and image, drawing on bodily memory and improvisation. Drawing on intimate narratives tied to Black and Afro-descendant identities, she creates spaces of resonance between individual experiences and shared narratives.  After the show on 4.10., Marilyn Nova White will perform »You are hired #3«, a short solo drag-inspired show about work, identity and empowerment in late capitalism.On 4.10., Massandje Sanogo will also host the voice lab »Oxygène’s Workshop«. Both »Rapport sur ma vie antérieure de femme noire« and »Oxygène’s Workshop« are part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 festival »Are We A Thing?«.

DEAR LOVERS OF LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT!WE OFFER WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR ON THE INTERNET!»BEST COMPILATION EVER« LIVES UP TO ITS NAME: IT’S A KISS KISS KISS PARADE — A DAZZLING SUCCESSION OF SENSATIONS! WHAT UNFOLDS IS A LIVING SPECTACLE OF APPROACH AND RETREAT: FLUID, UNRULY AND DELICIOUSLY UNRESOLVED.A MAGICAL SHOW OF INTIMATE CURIOSITIES, WHERE DESIRE REFUSES TO SETTLE, AND NO EXPECTATION IS SET. »Best Compilation Ever« struggles with the logic of the compilation — a format familiar from YouTube, TikTok or pornography, where loosely linked climaxes form a genre. The category is KISSING. Though kissing itself has no climax, it is often staged as a contractual conclusion: the proverbial »happy ending«, a consumable image. Yet in the act itself, eyes close and attention shifts away from the visual. Through improvisation and repetition, the performers turn the climax into an ongoing, expansive encounter. Between image and embodied process, they seek a performative language of desire that destabilizes capitalist logics of commodification and reclaims repetition as a site of resistance. »Best Compilation Ever« is a performance by Livi Scheucher, created in collaboration with actor Thea Ehre and sound artist Kirikou Gueye. After the performance on 3.10., there will be a performance by Mohamad Moe Sabbah.After the performance on 4.10., there will be an audience discussion.On both evenings, we’ll round off the night with music. Stay a little longer for a drink and a dance with us! »Best Compilation Ever« is part of Le Lampenfieber 2026 festival »Are We A Thing?«.

A performative campfire installation for ages 10+ Around the campfire, the wood crackles. The air smells of smoke, forest, sweetness, and char. Stories are told, guesses are made, imaginations run wild, and tales are passed on. But what is already in the air—and what only comes into being through retelling?Together, we light an artistic campfire and cook a rumour soup: logs are added to the fire, stick bread and foil-wrapped potatoes drift through the smoke, and scents spread—warm, familiar, and full of anticipation. Stories begin to circulate: small observations, claims, rumours. Some change along the way, others stick.Amid smoke, sound, and flickering light, a collective rumour takes shape—sentence by sentence, scent by scent. After all, we love passing stories on. But judgments form quickly. What does it take for whispers and murmurs to suddenly become accepted as reality? How quickly can a rumour turn into something that can no longer be undone?A fireside game about social dynamics, hearsay, exclusion, and community. Sebastian Mauksch & Team create theatre as a space for shared experience and discovery for children and young people. Combining performance, text, visual arts, sound, and technology, they explore social questions together with their audiences, inviting them to test their own perspectives and ways of acting.

How much are you willing to give for love? »True Romance« takes the audience deep into the heart of pig butchering — the most brutal form of digital romance scam. It is a billion-dollar business built on perfectly engineered emotional scripts: through endless messages, a real and beautiful relationship is sold to you, the damn best relationship you will ever have! And of course, that comes at a price. Until your bank account is empty. Until everything you have is gone.Up to 15 audience members per performance experience the work of three characters inside a scam center. The immersive performance unfolds live in an office setting, somewhere between karaoke to Lana Del Rey’s »Video Games« and beer pong, while also taking place through smartphones handed out at the beginning. Using an app specially developed for the performance, parts of the story are delivered directly to the audience’s devices through personal chats and videos.»True Romance« — a play about the promise of love in the digital age. A play like a message from the person you love. A play just for you. Stefan Mießeler is an author and director. He creates performances and theatrical works that combine spoken theater with immersive settings and trash aesthetics.