Mars

Show & Culture

With Mars, composer Jennifer Walshe offers an extraordinary stage experience, blending opera, theater, and performance. The audience is invited to embark on a true space voyage to Mars, an environment full of quirky humor, unexpected situations, and overflowing stage energy. The story: four astronauts and an artificial intelligence software interface are confined in a spacecraft cabin for nine months on a mission to Mars. As they cross the vastness of space, tensions rise, relationships are tested, and to pass the time, episodes of the Desperate Housewives series are watched and re-watched. Upon arrival on the red planet, they face isolation, sinister ideologies, the prospect of extraterrestrial life, and a shift toward authoritarian team management... Behind this cosmic fantasy, Mars also creates a space for reflection on today's world: our lifestyles, obsessions, and vulnerabilities. A work that makes you smile as much as it provokes thought. A vibrant and stimulating show: a space odyssey not to be forgotten.