Little Red Riding Hood

Das Plateau was founded in 2008. Its members are architect and stage director Céleste Germe, actress Maëlys Ricordeau, author-composer Jacob Stambach and writer and dancer Jacques Albert. Their hybrid productions combine theatre, literature, music and visual arts.

Many of Das Plateau’s projects (Cours les Prairies, Notre Printemps, SIG Sauer Pro, Le Bon Chemin and Dia de Macho, Vispera de Nada) are based on texts by Jacques Albert, published by Les Editions Théâtrales, but the collective is currently working with contemporary texts, particularly by women writers such as Marie Darrieussecq (Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes, 2016) or Pauline Peyrade (Bois Impériaux, 2018 and Poings, 2020). Its productions aim to reveal the underside of things that cannot be spoken or explained, that cannot be dissolved or resolved in the complexity of the world. Endeavouring to establish a new form of tragedy, the beauty they create on stage is imprinted with the violence of the world – but conveys the possibility of hope.

In addition to workshops and encounters organized nationwide to raise awareness of contemporary theatre, Das Plateau teaches stage direction and production at several drama schools – the Manufacture and the Teintureries in Lausanne, the drama schools of the Théâtre National de Bretagne and the Théâtre du Nord in Lille, the ENSATT in Lyon and the ESAD in Paris – and on in-company training programs.

In 2024-25, Pénélopes, a light, site-specific work based on Homer’s Odyssey and interviews with local residents, and Le Petit Chaperon rouge, created in 2022 at the Avignon Festival, will tour France and the United States. In March 2025, Das Plateau created Lac Artificiel by Marine Chartrain at Théâtre Ouvert. In autumn 2025, Das Plateau will stage her next large-scale show, Un jour sans vent (Une Orestie), a writing commission from poet and playwright Milène Tournier.

Text by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and fragments of Futur, ancien, fugitif by Olivier Cadiot

French translation by Natacha Rimasson-Fertin, Éditions Corti

Stage direction: Céleste Germe

Conception: Céleste Germe and Maëlys Ricordeau

With : Antoine Oppenheim and Maëlys Ricordeau

Music composition and sound management: J. Stambach

Set design: James Brandily

Video: Flavie Trichet-Lespagnol

Video and sound design: Jérome Tuncer

Lights: Sébastien Lefèvre

Costumes: Sabine Schlemmer

Dramaturgical advice: Marion Stoufflet

Assistant director: Mathilde Wind

General and stage management: Pablo Simonet

Sculptures: Julia Morlot and Jérémy Page

Wolf skin manufacture: Pascale Dufay

Set construction monitoring: Benjamin Bertrand

Administration, production, distribution: Bureau de production Retors Particulier

Coproduction and residency
Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine, Le Grand R, Scène nationale de La Roche-sur-Yon

Coproduction
Théâtre Nouvelle Génération centre dramatique national (Lyon), Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers CDN, La Comédie de Colmar – Centre dramatique National Grand Est Alsace, Comédie de Reims – Centre dramatique national de Reims, Théâtre Gérard Philipe Centre dramatique national de Saint-Denis, La Villette, Paris – Initiatives d’artistes, CRÉA / Festival Momix / Scène conventionnée d’Intérêt National “Art Enfance Jeunesse” (Kingersheim), Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes), Le Grand Bleu, Scène conventionnée d’Intérêt National – Art, Enfance et Jeunesse (Lille)

Residency
Ferme du Buisson, scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée

Support
Théâtre de Brétigny, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national arts & humanités

Financed by
Région Île-de-France, Fonds de production de la DGCA, le Département du Val-de-Marne

Das Plateau is subsidized by the DRAC Île-de-France, is supported by the Région île-de-France under the aid for cultural and artistic permanency, and by the Département of Essonne as part of the aid to territorial residency. Das Plateau belongs to the 360 theater compagny collective.