The performances of the three versions of the show will take place in November 2026

Face to Face was born from Agnès Limbos’s desire to collaborate with artist friends and to propose a variety of versions developed from the same concept: a long oval table.
Sitting face to face, Agnès Limbos and her fellow actor(s) create stories from found objects, both ordinary and unusual. Taken from the world’s chaos, these objects become characters, landscapes, or metaphors. They tell stories of love, justice, domination, faith, madness, or solitude.
Another actor/dancer, a “servant”, moves the objects about and watches over the ritual of the performance.
Depending on the version, the table becomes the setting for a melodrama, a poetic voyage of bird and human puppets, a fallen queen, microscopic amidst the pomp and vanity of grand banquets, business men busy with the emptiness of their conversations, suitors with their never assuaged desire for conquest and, above all, solitude.
Inspired by the striking image of political negotiation tables – the place of decision making, power dynamics and eloquent silences – the piece transforms this space into a poetic and dramaturgical playground.
Face to Face, is an object and figurine theatre creation which examines our relationship with power, intimacy and narrative, using a simple setting: a long oval table, the sole enduring trace of a humanity in decay.
Through the precise gesture of manipulation and the evocative power of the object, the shows propose a theatre of detail and imagination, where the infinitely small illuminates the grand mechanisms of the world.

General public, age 12 and up
Duration: 60 to 75 minutes

All versions:
Conception, writing, and performance Agnès Limbos
Writing and performance Samy Caffonnette

with:
In version 1 Marie-Jeanne, a woman of the people
Writing and performance: Corinne Grandjean
In version 2 The Inseparables / Unzertrennliche
Writing and performance Michael Vogel
In version 3 Toby or not Toby (working title)
Writing and performance Denis Athimon, Charlot Lemoine
All versions:
Lighting design and technician Nicolas Thill
Set construction Alex Herman
Costumes and figurine dressing Françoise Colpé
Fabrication of the figurine heads Joachim Jannin
Fabrication of the dog Odile Dubucq
Assistant director Orell Pernot-Borràs
Dramaturgical advice Michel Villée
Administration and production Compagnie Gare Centrale, Sylviane Evrard
Support: Théâtre de la Poudrière, Neuchâtel (CH); Westflügel, Leipsig (D); Vélo Théâtre, Apt (F)

image © Michel Boudru