Bientôt le jour

What drives a person to change their life, to take a different path, from one moment to the next? This is one of the questions that will guide the creation of the company’s next play.

Bientôt le jour will present seven stories offering an intimate account of being torn away from a daily life once thought to be unchanging. Based on testimonies gathered in France and abroad (Austria, Italy, Spain, the United States, India and Cameroon), the play will unfold in a series of fragments in which the decisive moment of the uprising takes shape before our eyes. For each account, we will bring to life, in their original language, the people quoted and the landscape that accompanies them. As if we were bringing to life a memory of our own, we shall attempt, with modesty and sensitivity, to transpose this sensitive material onto the stage by re-contextualising it within its historical and political setting. And because these recounted stories are conveyed through a memory frayed by time, fiction will then fill in these gaps

Creation in September 2026 at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe – Centre Dramatique National de Saint-Denis

Concept, writing and direction Julie Bertin / Le Birgit Ensemble

Dramaturgy Guillaume Clayssen and Lucas Samain

With Caroline Arrouas, Fareen Aslam, Heza Botto, Robin Causse, Morgane Nairaud, Loïc Riewer, Gaia Singer

Set design James Brandily

Lighting Jérémie Papin assisted by Théo Le Menthéour

Sound Lucas Lelièvre

Costumes Pauline Kieffer

Choreography Lucía García Pullés

Stage management Marco Benigno

Lighting technician Théo Le Menthéour

Administration, production Manon Cardineau, Iris Cottu and Colin Pitrat, distribution Florence Bourgeon – Les Indépendances

Production Le Birgit Ensemble

Co-productions Théâtre Gérard Philipe – CDN de Saint-Denis, Théâtre La Passerelle – Scène nationale de Gap, Théâtre+Cinéma – Scène nationale de Narbonne, Le Bateau Feu – Scène nationale de Dunkerque, Le Grand R – Scène nationale La Roche-sur-Yon, MAC – Maison des Arts de Créteil Scène nationale, in progress

Residences Théâtre Gérard Philipe – CDN de Saint-Denis, Théâtre+Cinéma – Scène nationale de Narbonne, Théâtre La Passerelle – Scène nationale de Gap, Le Moulin du Roc – Scène nationale de Niort, Cromot – Maison d’artistes et de production

With the support of La Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon – Centre national des écritures du spectacle

The Birgit Ensemble company is subsidised by the Île-de-France Regional Cultural Affairs Directorate and the Val-de-Marne Departmental Council.

Julie Bertin and Jade Herbulot are associate artists at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe – CDN de Saint-Denis and La Passerelle – Scène nationale de Gap.