Red Flags and Roses (Une Rose plus rouge)

Le Libeski Kollektiv is a Luxembourg-based theatre company born from collective exploration and interdisciplinary collaboration. Through personal narratives and documentary material, the company develops an engaged, sensitive, and feminist form of theatre. Its first production, A Rose More Red, examines romantic relationships in a world governed by invisible codes and internalized rules. With this debut work, Le Libeski Kollektiv is now part of Luxembourg’s official selection at the Avignon Festival with A Rose More Red.

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Christine Muller is a director, performer, and writer. After studying public international law and training as an actress, she turned to directing in 2018, developing performances that combine theatre, dance, and documentary practices. With Cocoons, her first creation, she initiated an artistic inquiry into stories of revolt and disobedience — a recurring thread throughout her work.

Her productions are rooted in contemporary issues and weave together documentary material with theatrical writing. La Rue des Fleurs n’existe pas (2020) explored gentrification and tensions between communities; Irréductibles (2021) questioned the legitimacy of disobedience through testimonies from former Red Brigades members; La Visite (2024) addressed maternal regret and its taboos; Ladies Football Club (2025) examined mechanisms that render women invisible. Her recent works continue these explorations: Bungee Jumping (2026) investigates bodily domination and the exploitation of living beings, while Red Flags and Roses (2026), freely inspired by Liv Strömquist’s The Reddest Rose, explores the implicit norms shaping our intimate relationships.

She directs Le Libeski Kollektiv, whose founding project focused on impostor syndrome in Lebanon, developed with Diane Albasini and Melissa Merlo. Within the company, she cultivates a collective practice in which performances emerge from discussion, shared sensibilities, and collective urgencies.

Originally trained as an architect, Anna Ellermets develops a practice at the intersection of scenography, architecture, photography, and performance.

A graduate of ENSA Versailles, she pursued international research, notably at Tongji University in Shanghai, before collaborating with various artistic collectives and theatre companies.

Her work has been presented in several cultural venues and galleries in France. Since 2023, she has taught in interior architecture schools while collaborating on projects ranging from exhibition curation and scenography to bioregional architecture.

Through her work, she seeks to evoke and represent a form of dispersed, shifting, fragmented, informal, reversible, flexible, and ephemeral architecture — yet no less real. She explores soft and temporary forms in which space becomes a sensitive and appropriable field of experimentation rather than a fixed and imposed framework.

Sophia Fabian, born in Berlin, discovered the stage at a young age at the Schaubühne in a production directed by Falk Richter. After completing her Abitur, she travelled alone through Asia, Africa, and South America before settling in Paris to pursue acting studies. She trained at Cours Florent and the Conservatoire Charles Munch, focusing particularly on the Meisner technique and a practice centered on listening and presence.

Early in her career, she became involved in international productions, performing under directors such as Angélica Liddell, Romeo Castellucci, and Thomas Ostermeier across Berlin, Paris, and China. Since then, she has alternated between contemporary theatre and classical or baroque forms, performing in both French and German. In 2025, she joined the creation of Red Flags and Roses, directed by Christine Muller at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, while continuing her vocal research through her narrative podcast Das Chaos und seine Kinder.

Founder of Compagnie Populo, Clara Koskas develops multidisciplinary theatre centered on the question of dehumanization.

She has directed Les Aveugles by Maeterlinck, Le Révizor by Gogol, and will present Ad Vitam, an original work, in 2027.

She trained with artists including Omar Porras, Jean-René Lemoine, Pascal Rambert, Jos Houben, and Mario Gonzalez, and later specialized in puppetry with Les Anges au Plafond and Compagnie Philippe Genty.

As an actress, she has collaborated with several companies, notably L’Eau Qui Dort in Léviathan, for which she was nominated in the “Best Female Performance” category at the 2024 Lauriers awards.

A self-taught musician, Mélanie Gerber discovered tablas during a trip to India and practices a wide range of instruments — harmoniums, flutes, guitars — blending them with more contemporary electronic sounds. Based in Metz as a singer-songwriter and composer, she collaborates with theatre directors, scenographers, and visual artists, creating musical works for theatre and cinema while using her voice as her primary instrument.

“My research on the voice is always in service of melody, yet these are performative ‘songs’ seeking to provoke a dynamic response in the listener. Through singing, I engage my entire body, extracting an intuitive music grounded in vocal improvisation.”

Language becomes a purely aesthetic object, a musical phenomenon participating in a spiritual quest through the creation of an incantatory sonic language.

Tanguy Le Hir is a lighting designer and stage manager. He collaborates on live performance projects by overseeing technical design and the implementation of stage devices, with particular attention to the dialogue between light, space, and dramaturgy. Trained in stage technology and touring management, he works with various artistic teams on productions combining theatre, performance, and hybrid forms. His work seeks to support the performers’ presence and create sensitive atmospheres at the crossroads of technical precision and scenic writing.

Directed by Christine Muller
Scenography, costumes, and props Anna Ellermets
Performed by Sophia Fabian
Performed by Clara Koskas
Performed by Mélanie Gerber
Lighting design and technical direction Tanguy Le Hir
Assistant for props and set construction Denise Schuman, Zoé Lambs, Vincent Thepaud

Produced by Le Libeski Kollektiv and the Théâtre National du Luxembourg
With the support of Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, the Ministry of Culture of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the City of Luxembourg, Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, neimënster, Fondation Indépendance by BIL, the Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in France, the TalentLAB of the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Bâtiment 4 (Esch-sur-Alzette), and Escher Theater — Municipal Theatre of Esch-sur-Alzette.