Infos pratiques
Location
Studio Varia
Duration
approx. 1 hour 45 minutes
Languages
Français
Prices

Pay what you can

€10 / €13 / €17 / €22 / €27 

Public
Ages 14 and over
Accessibility
pmr accompagnant
pmr
Informed audience

The show explores stories of gender-based and sexual violence.  

30.09—09.10.2026

The glorious procession of the false and sorrowful nuns

Léa Quinsac

Solène Valentin &
Helen Zaas

Theater
Création

A gruesome horror thriller in which the voices of nuns echo across the airwaves to unravel a mystery from the past.

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Summary

A pirate radio station hidden away in a convent. A nun makes an appeal over the airwaves. She is seeking answers regarding a local news story that took place within these walls years ago. A woman arrives. Then two, then three. Torn between despair and unsettling fantasy, they attempt to separate fact from fiction, conjuring up memories and tales surrounding this unsolved mystery. Through their erratic investigation, they take us into the depths of their innermost mysticism. 

Can one reconcile one’s faith with a life deemed ‘deviant’? How can one believe whilst being excluded from God’s love? Is there any compatibility between queerness and religiosity? Through fragmented storytelling and explosive theatricality, *The Glorious Procession of the False and Sad Nuns* brings together past and present, ghosts and the living in a mysterious studio. From it spring forth tales of stifled dissent – raw blocks of desire, cruelty and rebellion. Here, women can exist in all their grandiloquence, vulnerability or strangeness. Subversive, they invite us to take a free and sensitive look at the weight of convention. 

Following *La Litanie des Agonisantes*, the Helen Zaas company continues to explore the notion of the sacred, this time combining it with lesbian love. Through stories blending religiosity and marginality, this new creation instils in us the urgency to reclaim our religious heritage, no longer solely through beliefs and dogmas, but through the liberating prism of tales of defiance. By freeing the figure of the nun from the shackles in which she is usually confined, La glorieuse procession des fausses et tristes nonnes creates openings of freedom and joy, paving the way for new beguines and an uninhibited spirituality. 

Cast

Directed and designed by Léa Quinsac and Solène Valentin  

Text by Héloïse Ravet 





Cast: Consolate, Raphaëlle Corbisier, Léonie Floret, Léa Quinsac
Assistant director Victor Rachet Lighting design Lionel Ueberschlag Sound design Laure Lapel
Music Léonie Floret Costume design Solène Valentin Costume making Caro Hespel, Ateliers du Varia – Théâtre & Studio – Fabienne Damiean
Set design: Marie Szersnovicz 

Credits




A production by Léa Quinsac and Solène Valentin / Helen Zaas asbl Executive production by Varia - Théâtre & Studio
In co-production with La Coop asbl and Shelter Prod, Helen Zaas asbl With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, General Service for Artistic Creation – Theatre Department With the support of taxshelter.be, ING and the Belgian federal government’s tax shelter scheme (E)utopia asbl, Le Château de Monthelon, Wallonie-Bruxelles International 

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