Les Helvètes

The graduating class of the La Manufacture de Lausanne is presenting The Helvetians, a theatre variation of the collective Swiss imagination. On stage, 16 men and women, freely inspired by Swiss personalities from the late 19th century to the 1980s. They are architects, writers, theologians, athletes, psychiatrists, businessmen, journalists, adventurers and even soldiers. In having these 16 figures intersect at the same time and on the same stage, the ambition of the actors of La Manufacture is to deal with the "Swiss" object in a utopian way, rejecting the consensus traditionally associated with this country, which the plastic artist Ben had scandalised by asserting that this consensus didn't exist.