La Colline presents two English-subtitled performance nights for each of the three plays described hereafter, intended for a non French-speaking audience. A programme in English is also available on the night of the performance.
A season ticket including the following subtitled plays can be purchased at a special rate: 14€ per play instead of 27€ (full ticket price).

by Frank Wedekind
director Stéphane Braunschweig
a production by La Colline — théâtre national
Saturday 4 December at 7.30 p.m
Tuesday 14 December at 7.30 p.m

Wedekind started writing this sensational drama in 1892. More than a whole, the play is a crucible of phenomenal passionate and theatrical turmoil, displaying deeply contrasted colours: the enchanting eros, promise of happiness, ends up turning to trash... Marked by extravaganza and overwhelmed by fantasies, Lulu’s story gradually hints various degrees of gnawing pain and anguish. It is these incredible theatrical spasms, the vim of this writing and its combative strength that Stéphane Braunschweig wants to explore in order to nourish his staging of the “monstrous tragedy”.

by Marie NDiaye - Les Grandes Personnes
director Christophe Perton
a production by Scènes & Cités - Lyon
Tuesday 22 March at 7.30 p.m/Saturday 2 April at 8.30 p.m

Eva and Rudi are still in mourning after the loss of their daughter who committed suicide fifteen years ago. With their childhood friends George and Isabelle they evoke the young girl’s presence. Her ghost has mysteriously found refuge under their staircase. Their adopted son, who had disappeared, also returns. On the other hand, George and Isabelle are really proud of their own son, he’s a “school master” who brightens up their lives and comes every night to visit. But he seems to be carrying a burden that weighs on his soul. The author, Marie NDiaye, who won the Goncourt prize in 2009, juggles with many themes such as death, family, ghosts, heritage, culture, and humiliation. With The Grown-ups she produces a new polished and sharp work.

by August Strindberg - Mademoiselle Julie
director Christian Schiaretti
a production by Théâtre National Populaire - Villeurbanne
Thursday 19 May at 8.30 p.m /Tuesday 24 May at 7.30 p.m

Christian Schiaretti, director of the TNP — Villeurbanne returns to Strindberg. In Miss Julie (1888), a young aristocrat, all excited by St John’s night, seduces her domestic. But the spell is immediately broken and her ideals and his will of social rise fatally clash. In this play, probably Strindberg’s most well known, the author uses his skills of composition. The overwhelming passion and the need to kill create a thrilling suspense. The motive for the crime is unlikely and its weapon remains unfound: words are the true executioner here.