Reclaim
Maeterlinck Award 2023 (B)
Saint Joseph Award - FIT Rio Preto 2024 (Br)
Florencia Award for Best Foreign Show (Ur)
RECLAIM is an imaginary ritual during which an opera singer, two cellists, and five acrobatic performers invite us to rediscover a more just relationship with the world. What is being offered here is not a performance, but a collective experience. This project is seen as a necessity — a form of secular prayer.
An extraordinary moment to be experienced as a return to the origins of theatre, marked by wildness, the circle, strangeness, at times monstrosity, intense closeness, and fear.
RECLAIM is an act of resistance — it means becoming capable of retrieving, of reclaiming what we have been separated from.
Distribution
Opera singer
Blandine Coulon alternating with Camille Brault
Cellists
Eugénie Defraigne, Suzanne Vermeyen alternating with Ambre Tamagna
Circus artists
Chloé Chevallier alternating with Sofía Belén Enríquez, César Mispelon, Paul Krugener, Lisandro Gallo alternating with Franco Pelizzari Del Valle and Joaquin Diego Bravo alternating with Lucas Elias
General and lighting manager
Manu Buttner alternating with Paul-Emile Perreau
Scenographer
Oria Puppo
Puppet
Polina Borissova
Masks
Isis Hauben
Iron work
Jean-Marc Simon
Creation of the painted backdrop
Eugénie Obolensky
Choregraphic work
Dominique Duszynski
Assistant
Lola Chuniaud
Lighting design
Frédéric Vannes (theatre version) and Emily Brassier (tent version)
Production
T1J and Ostra Nezeca Productions
Touring
Ostra Nezeca Productions - Bérénice Masset
France : Témal Productions - Camille Zunino
Photographers
Danny Willems, Luis Aureo, Christophe Raynaud de Lage and Dirk Sevenants
Photographers
Danny Willems, Luis Aureo, Christophe Raynaud de Lage and Dirk Sevenants
Thanks to Malia Bendi Merad, Javier Swedzky and Marina Simonova for their invaluable artistic collaboration.
Written and directed by
Patrick Masset
Coproductions
les Halles de Schaerbeek - Bruxelles (BEL), Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène Européenne (FR), Le Vilar - Louvain-la-Neuve (BEL), le Palais des Beaux-Arts - Charleroi (BEL), UP - Circus & Performing Arts (BEL)
With the support of
MAD Festival - Antwerp, Centre Culturel of Bièvre, Theater op de Markt/Dommelhof of Neerpelt, CAS, WBI, the Loterie Nationale (FWB), Wallonie and WBTD
Past performances
2025
Théâtre Marni
Past performances
2024
SPA Festival
Festival d'Avignon
Le Vilar
