BLOCKBUSTER

The Collectif Mensuel offers a political, popular, polymorphic and festive theater. Established in Liège, Belgium, it finds its richness in the diversity of the artists who make up the company: musicians, video artists, actors, writers, sound engineers, stage managers, set designers, visual artists...

Its shows (Blockbuster, Sabordage, 2043, L'homme qui valait 35 milliards, or Zaï Zaï) have been performed more than 800 times in France, in Belgium, and elsewhere, and have enjoyed both public and critical success.

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Three actors form the core of this Collective: Sandrine Bergot, Baptiste Isaia and Renaud Riga. This simple fact has a huge influence on the nature of its work. If several people have joined the adventure and enriched it with their experience in their distinctive fields, each of the collective's projects remains the fruit of actors' desires, and places the actor (of the theater but also of society and of his time, as a conscious and responsible artist) at the center of the creative process.

It is with this approach in mind that the different shows have progressively integrated other artistic disciplines to generate a composite, festive and communicative theater, where humor, if not imperative, always finds its way into their work.

Awarded the Prix Jeunes Auteurs ( International Young Authors' Prize) in 1989 and 1991, he published his first novel in 1995, Ciel bleu trop bleu. Numerous other novels followed, for adults as well as for young people, including Quatrième étage, (Prix des Lycéens in 2001 – literary award given by high school students) or Nous sommes tous des playmobiles. He is also a comic book critic and author of children books. In September 2009, he published L'homme qui valait 35 milliards and received the Prix Rossel des Jeunes, a prestigious Belgian literary award. He is without a doubt one of the most prolific and representative writers of the Belgian French-speaking literature;
Blockbuster is very loosely adapted from his novel Invisibles et remuants (2015).

Conception and direction Collectif Mensuel
Writing Nicolas Ancion & Collectif Mensuel
Performance Sandrine Bergot, Xavier Foucher, Quentin Halloy, Baptiste Isaia, Philippe Lecrenier
Technical direction – lighting design Manu Deck
Scenography Claudine Maus
Sound engineer Johann Spitz
Video and lighting director Nicolas Gilson
Editing Juliette Achard
Sound effects coach Céline Bernard
Production Manager Adrien De Rudder
Tour organizer Enorah Le Paih

Production Collectif Mensuel
Coproduction Théâtre de Liège et Théâtre National/Bruxelles
With the support of la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, de l’AWEX, du WBI, de la Province de Liège et de la Loterie Nationale.