Season ’26–’27
With great pride, we present our programme for the 2026–27 theatre season!
We live in a time full of contradictions. While the world accelerates and technology pushes us forward in ways we can no longer fully control, we as human beings seem to find ourselves increasingly at odds with one another. Conflicts, power and the struggle over narratives shape the rhythm of our time.
At KVS, we resolutely choose something else.
For encounter, imagination and humanity.
For stories that open up the world and bring us closer together.
This season, we do so with artists such as Martha Balthazar, Barbara T’Jonck and May Abnet, who question power dynamics in The Powerless, and with Junior Mthombeni, who unflinchingly dissects war and propaganda in Hannibal. We welcome voices from Brussels and beyond, from Nona Demey Gallagher to Carolina Bianchi to Alesandra Seutin.
We make space for artists who search, question and confront. Who invite us to look at power, at ourselves, at history and at the world we live in. With Brussels as a shared starting point.
Welcome to KVS.
Welcome to the 2026–27 season.
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No subscription needed? From 15.06.2026, you can also purchase single tickets via our website or at the box office.
Discover the KVS creations of this season!
CRY (NO) MORE - DINA DOOREMAN/KVS
A dive into what crying means, then and now. An exploration of the impulse not to do it, of culture and control.
19/09/26 – KVS FOYER
BROKEN HOME, MY SHRINE - ALIX KONADU/MOUSSEM & KVS
A multidisciplinary performance about migration and identity. Alix Konadu weaves together two perspectives: those who move, and those who grow up in the echo of that movement.
16 & 17/10/26 – KVS BOX
CECI N’EST PAS NOIRE: ACT II - ALESANDRA SEUTIN/KVS
Alesandra Seutin moves through memory as through a landscape that is constantly changing shape. A search for identity between two worlds where “home” is not fixed, but is continuously felt anew and must be renegotiated.
5 > 7/11/26 – KVS BOX
DON QUIXOTE, WHICH WAS A DREAM - NONA DEMEY GALLAGHER/KVS
A satirical universe full of grotesque, archetypal figures, where politics, (pop) culture and madness are inseparably intertwined. Nona Demey Gallagher is not searching for a grail, but for something that resembles love in a crooked world.
17 > 20/3/27 - KVS BOL
BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES - JUNIOR MTHOMBENI, MICHAEL DE COCK, INUA ELLAMS/ D&J CREATIONS, THEATRE DE LIEGE & KVS
This London hit production presents barbershops as safe spaces for men: places where identity, masculinity and community are questioned.
8, 9, 13 > 15/01/27 – KVS BOL
THE POWERLESS - BARBARA T’JONCK, MARTHA BALTAZAR & MAY ABNET/KVS
Who is actually in charge? The Powerless is documentary theatre about the feeling of powerlessness among those who hold the most power.
13 > 16/01/27 – KVS BOX
DARLING(S) - MOYA MICHAEL & IGOR SHYSHKO / KVS
Voices, bodies and archives move alongside each other. Stories of generations of socio-political realities once lived separately. Brazil, Palestine, Ireland, South Africa, Belgium. Parallel histories unfold into a third dancer within a collective sonic whole in the present.
4 > 6/02/27 – KVS BOX
KOSMOS - SEPPE BAEYENS / KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU, LEON & KVS
A temporary shared universe in which movement becomes a form of writing. And where the museum briefly transforms into a living space of recognition, difference and the impact of distance.
8 > 11 & 15 > 18/04/27 – KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU BRUSSELS
REVIVALS
COPYRIOT - KRAPP/KVS
A tragicomic fever dream about doubling and modernity’s greatest monster: the self.
23 & 24/9/26 - KVS BOX
HANNIBAL - JUNIOR MTHOMBENI & MICHAEL DE COCK/KVS
A unique synergy of opera and slam, contemporary dance and acting, opening a window onto Europe’s past, present and future.
11 > 13/2/27 - KVS BOL
REXIT! (EN FRANÇAIS) - BRUNO VANDEN BROECKE, VALENTIJN DHAENENS & VINCENT STUER / KVS
Spaak and Leopold III. A debate shaped by deep royal disagreements, from which a democracy attempts to define itself. Two figures embodying a fault line that continues to resonate to this day.
29 & 30/1/27 - KVS BOL
Saturday @ 18h
Just like last year, KVS is scheduling performances this season on Saturday evenings at 6 pm! That way, you still have time afterwards to grab a bite to eat, catch an early train home, or… dive into the wonderful city that is Brussels. This season, you can catch these performances at 6 pm.
19/09/26: For Blinky Palermo
03/10/26: Dit is (niet) de evolutietheorie van de troost
17/10/26: Broken Home, My Shrine
07/11/26: Ceci n’est pas noire: act II
05/12/26: DE SITCOM
12/12/26: Le Salon revisited
09/01/27: Barber Shop Chronicles
16/01/27: The Powerless
30/01/27: Rexit (FR)
06/02/27: Darling(s)
10/04/27: It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend
05/06/27: Mensen met problemen
Also on the programme:
IMPRISONED GODS - LUKAH KATANGILA / ULTIMA VEZ
Four voices from Goma, each with their own rhythm. Tradition and hip-hop breathe together in a shared space. A celebration of African, pre-colonial cultural identity.
23/9/26 - KVS BOL
LE SALON REVISITED - GABRIELA CARRIZO & FRANCK CHARTIER /PEEPING TOM & KVS
Family as a system in which tradition and fractures share the same table. Until the table itself begins to remember what everyone is trying to forget. About how time can erode certainties.
9 > 12 & 15 > 18/12/26 - KVS BOL
DE SITCOM - DE HOE
A tragicomic studio where laughter and life constantly misread each other. Where the joke always lands just a little too close to the pain. Where schadenfreude becomes more than a theoretical concept, but a form of sorrowful entertainment.
3 > 5/12/26 - KVS BOX
CADELA FORÇA TRILOGY, CHAPTER III: A CORDIAL LIGHT - CAROLINA BIANCHI, CARA DE CAVOLO & METRO GESTÃO CULTURAL / KVS
A disproportionate combination of notes, drafts and quotations, distorted into violent writings that were never meant to come together as a single form. Carolina Bianchi, through various alter egos, explores sexuality, violence and imagination.
7 > 10/5/27 - KVS BOL
A WAVE - ZOË DEMOUSTIER / OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN / LAGESTE
A Flemish wave to ride. A generation looking back to understand what it has passed on. And at the same time moving forward without knowing how far it will go.
23 & 24/4/27 - KVS BOL
AN EVENING WITH VOETVOLK - VOETVOLK
A celebration of 20 years of Voetvolk. A journey full of joy, dance and beauty, stress and doubt. And their archive of performances that refuse to be put away.
9 & 10/4/27 - KVS BOX/KVS BOL
VERSION(S) – DOROTHÉE MUNYANEZA / COMPAGNIE KADIDI
Two bodies, one field of continuous sounds and impacts. Dorothée Munyaneza explicitly questions masculinity for the first time – a polymorphous identity in full transformation – and what we inherit and pass on.
9 & 10/12/26 - KVS BOX
Parcours
No idea where to start? Let our thematic parcours guide you and discover new perspectives. From Myth, But Make It Nowand Female Gaze to Blijspel op de Bühne and Try A Little Tenderness: follow a trail or mix and match your own journey!
Festivals
The season is open before you. Now it’s up to you.
Browse our online magazine and discover the full KVS programme. Build your own parcours and choose what speaks to you most.
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The KVS team
Still have questions? We’re happy to help!