Enter our competition and win a double ticket for the opening night performance on Friday 27 August 2017!
What a great way to end the summer holidays with a trip to the theater to see an uplifting performance of a classic feel-good musical!
From 27 to 29 August, the GAOS Youth Group will perform the award-winning musical, Legally Blonde, at the Casino Theatre in Geneva!
Based on the hit 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon, this bright and colourful musical with a memorable score and inspiring roles for young women, was hugely successful both on Broadway and the West End, and won the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
Directed by Ylan Assefy, this GAOS rendition of Legally Blonde: The Musical tells the story of Elle Woods, a charming and lovable young sorority girl, who enrols at Harvard Law School to win back a former beau. But law school is no joyride — she is thrown out of class and her boyfriend proposes to another girl! It seems nobody has any faith her!
However, Elle decides to show everyone that she is more than just a pretty face. It turns out she has more legal savvy than anyone ever imagined and, through perseverance and self-belief, she finds unexpected success. Astonishing the faculty with her unabashed audacity, she gradually wins the respect and admiration of all those around her.
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In a bid to encourage more English-speaking visitors to their theatre in Geneva, the Théatre de Carouge-Atelier de Genève is offering knowitall.ch readers the chance to win a double ticket to see one of the plays from their new series of specially adapted performances for English-speaking viewers.
“The Robbers Ball” is the first show this year to be performed with English surtitles, and will take place on 10, 11 and 15 March 2017. All other performances of this excellent classic comedy, scheduled between 21 February and 18 March, will require a reasonable understanding of French to appreciate the play.
Written by Jean Anouilh and directed by Robert Sandoz, The Robbers Ball is an action-packed comedy with 50’s style costumes, live music and - of course - a love story! The performance takes place one summer in the spa town of Vichy. Peterbono, Hector and Gustave are three stooges who earn their living as pickpockets, creating all kinds of scenarios to rob rich spa clients and to seduce young ladies who are thoroughly bored. Taken in by their own wiles, they are invited to the luxurious home of Lady Hurf and her nieces. On the evening of the Robbers’ ball, the very last robbery is being set up, when suddenly…
Adam Bloom and Tim Clark perform at Uptown Geneva, on Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Two great English comedians, Adam Bloom and Tim Clark, will perform for the International Comedy Club next month in Geneva.
Having wowed club audiences in Switzerland with their acts in the past, the two performers will prove a popular replacement to the scheduled act for 8 March, Seann Walsh, who has been called away to perform in a primetime Sitcom for UK TV the same evening.
Those who have seen Adam Bloom in action before will tell you that he is one of Britain’s most inventive comedians. He has performed sell-out solo shows at the ’96, ’97, ’98, ’99, 2001, 2004 & 2007 Edinburgh Festivals as well as performing a sell-out tour of Britain. He has also sold out theaters at festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington and Cape Town as well as making three visits to ‘Just For Laughs‘ in Montreal. In 2004, Adam was part of the ‘Just For Laughs Comedy Tour‘, playing to 42,000 people in 17 cities across Canada. He has also written three series of ‘The Problem with Adam Bloom‘ for BBC Radio 4.
The Geneva Amateur Operatic Society (GAOS) is offering knowitall.ch readers the chance to win a double ticket to see its August production of Hair, the controversial rock musical that hit America in the 1960s and soon became a worldwide sensation.
Being performed at the Casino Theatre in Geneva between the 26th and 28th August, this lively GAOS production is targeted very much at adults and older teens, given the explicit nature of some of the topics addressed throughout the musical.
Indeed, when the show opened on Broadway in 1968, Hair challenged many of the norms held by Western society in the 1960s. At that time, the youth of America protested against what they saw as wrong with their country: racism, environmental destruction, poverty, sexism and sexual repression, violence at home, the war in Vietnam, depersonalization and corruption in politics.
With over 50,000 visitors per year, the Théâtre de Carouge is well known amongst the Geneva community for the quality and originality of its productions. When the theater troupe produced its first performance of La Nuit des Rois at La Salle du Cardinal-Mermillod in 1958, it very soon gained a loyal following of theater-lovers, keen to see its productions of both modern and classic works from playwrights such as Shakespeare, Goldoni, Tchékhov, Gorki, Brecht, Beckett, and Frisch, as well as local writers such as Louis Gaulis, Walter Weideli, and José Herrera Petere.
Although most of its performances are produced in French, the theater is keen to appeal to the wider English-speaking community as well. With this in mind, they now offer 2 or 3 plays each year, at which they feature English surtitles. And the feedback has been extremely positive! Indeed one member of the audience, who went to see a recent production of Shake, directed by Dan Jemmet, had such a glowing recommendation for the theater, that we have reproduced it in full here:
Enter our competition to win one of 10 double tickets for a special performance of the show at the ARENA on 7 November, 2015.
On Saturday, 7 November, 2015, “The Swiss Voice, Switzerland’s Greatest Voices” will take place at the ARENA in Geneva.
This live event will unite five of the most talented artists who were discovered during the popular TV series, “The Voice”, which has been aired on channel TF1 in France and SRF/RTS in Switzerland.
”The Voice” is a singing competition created for television. The five artists who have captured the admiration of TV viewers in both France and Switzerland are: Azania Noah, Stacey King, Paul Silve, Angie Ott, and Mathieu Blanchette. You can listen to extracts of their songs here (n.b. some links don't work in France).
