Ring (variations Du Couple) - Tournée

At Radiant-Bellevue: an evening shaped for intimate theatre

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are delighted to welcome Ring? Variations du couple, a touring production that thrives on proximity, rhythm, and nuance—qualities our auditorium is designed to amplify. Our stage team favors crisp, sculpted lighting and a sound environment that supports rapid shifts in tone, allowing audiences to catch every breath, silences, and sparks of wit that the piece unleashes. Situated in Caluire-et-Cuire, just outside Lyon, Radiant-Bellevue offers a warm, contemporary setting that complements the show’s fluid movement between tenderness and confrontation. The circulation from foyer to auditorium encourages a shared pre-show hum, while the gentle rake of the seating ensures clear sightlines for the flurries of physical play that define this production. For this stop on the tour, our technicians have tailored transitions and timing to the space, so that the nimble choreography of entrances, exits, and metamorphoses lands with precision. Whether you are discovering the piece for the first time or returning to savor its new textures, Radiant-Bellevue is poised to heighten each reversal of perspective, each laugh caught in the throat, and each unexpected moment of recognition.

About Ring? Variations du couple

Ring? Variations du couple unfolds as a kaleidoscope of encounters between two lovers who change ages, tempos, and temperaments before our eyes. The metaphor in the title hints at a space of contest and celebration, a ring where words can jab, embrace, or feint, and where the bell signals not defeat but another round of reinvention. Scene by scene, the performers vault from flirtation to negotiation, from jealousy to tenderness, tracing the looping paths of contemporary intimacy. The writing is quicksilver: playful, lucid, and unpredictable, equally comfortable with verbal sparring and the charged eloquence of stillness. Minimal props and sharp light cues invite the audience to complete the picture, while brisk costume and energy shifts sketch entire biographies in a handful of minutes. You may recognize fragments of daily life—messages that arrive at the wrong time, the quiet politics of who apologizes first, the tug-of-war between appetite and routine—yet the piece refuses clichés, favoring a generous curiosity about how two people keep choosing each other. On our stage, the production’s velocity and clarity allow each vignette to stand alone and then click into a larger portrait of love’s hard-won agility.

As a venue committed to contemporary creation, Radiant-Bellevue is proud to host a team whose artistic momentum this season has been felt in packed houses and glowing word-of-mouth across the tour. The creative forces behind Ring? Variations du couple continue to refine the material with fresh inflections that speak to today’s connections: the brittle comfort of screens, the choreography of cohabitation, the surprise of desire resurfacing after a lull. Their wider artistic activity this year extends through workshops, festival appearances, and collaborations that nurture a living repertoire of agile, actor-centered storytelling. Our role is to meet that vitality with the right conditions: a stage calibrated for quick pivots, tight sound images that frame every whisper and aside, and a house staff ready to guide audiences through a focused, convivial evening. By programming this work, Radiant-Bellevue affirms a season-long dialogue with theatre that listens closely to the present while honoring the craft that makes it sing. We invite you to take your seat, lean into the glow, and let the rounds begin—each one different, each one charged with the possibility that two people might, somehow, find the same rhythm.