Louise: a visual and physical play by Martin Zimmermann at the Théâtre du Rond-Point

The play Louise will be presented at the Théâtre du Rond-Point from May 13 to 24, 2025. A visual and choreographic creation by Martin Zimmermann, with four female performers.

From May 13 to 24, 2025, the Théâtre du Rond-Point welcomes Louise, a stage creation by Martin Zimmermann, a leading figure in contemporary physical and visual theater. This textless piece combines dance, acrobatics and object theater in an absurd, playful and profoundly human universe.

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Conceived as a reflection on imposed roles, hierarchies and resistance, Louise would bring together four artists with strong trajectories: Bérengère Bodin, Methinee Wongtrakoon, Marianna De Sanctis and Rosalba Torres Guerrero. All would take turns embodying authority figures or performers, in a stage laboratory where bodies, minds and imaginations collide. In turn, they would be leaders, patients, workers and guinea pigs, in a dynamic of jubilant reversal.

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Inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois, the piece conjures up a poetic, organic universe, in which the set - conceived as a living space - plays a central role. Martin Zimmermann, trained as a circus artist and renowned for his inventive stage designs, proposes a theater without words, but rich in images and rhythms. Objects, like bodies, would be vectors of narrative, tension and humor.

The piece would appeal to an audience with a curiosity for hybrid forms, sensitive to the expressive power of the body and to social issues approached in a roundabout way. This visual and performative theater, at the crossroads of circus, dance and stage installation, invites us to rethink the codes of power and identity, in a resolutely contemporary form.

This article is based on the show's press kit. It is not based on direct viewing.

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