La Tricoterie is not only a theater venue, it is also a place of creation, with several productions per year !
Motherland (*Mère patrie*)
The motherland… is me. Me, I am a female drag queen... An ancient drag. A prehistoric figure of the Brussels cabaret, the oldest living drag queen in the kingdom… A relic. [Read more]
The Sleeping Children (*Les enfants endormis*)
*The Sleeping Children* is an essential story. Intimate and collective. Anthony questions the images—photos and Super 8 films—of his family and of an era. So as not to forget. The 1980s, the "AIDS" years. The images of his uncle Désiré, who died from the disease of drug addicts and queer people. Through a deeply personal narrative, the narrator leads us on a dual investigation, blending personal history with the broader historical context. [Read more]
Love Under Algorithm (*L’amour sous algorithme*)
By investigating the world of dating apps, a journalist who is herself searching for true love discovers the opaque and patriarchal inner workings of these platforms. This launches her into a frantic race to navigate the labyrinth of Big Data. [Read more]
Jean-Luc
On December 21, 2024, Jean-Luc André passed away following a long illness in a palliative care home near Namur. Eighteen months earlier, he was rehearsing a show about his life as an antique/flea market dealer on stage at La Tricoterie in Saint-Gilles. Following his passing, a ceremony replaced the show in the theater’s bar. That was the first act. [Read more]
Interphono
INTERPHONO is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between La Tricoterie (Belgium), the Nonumoï company (France), and La Abadía Teatro (Spain). This project took place from 2023 to 2025 across 3 neighborhoods sharing a history of migration : Gennevilliers (a Parisian suburb where the Olympic Games took place), Saint-Gilles (a Brussels municipality characterized by its particularly diverse population), and Tetuán (a socially and culturally highly contrasted district of Madrid). [Read more]
Other Lives Than Mine (*D’autres vies que la mienne*)
Life is magnificent. Cruel, thrilling, revolting, luminous. In a text of great emotional power, a man and a woman, facing several collective or personal ordeals, take a deeply humane and empathetic look at the lives of those around them and, through that, at their own existence. [Read more]
Goodbye (*Au revoir*)
"Goodbye" is that of a father taking leave of his children, who have left to settle on Mars. Will they ever see each other again ? What kind of life should they invent now ? [Read more]
