Location
Hors les murs
atelier210
Chaussée Saint-Pierre 210, 1040 Brussels
Duration
1 hour 15 minutes
Public
Ages 16 and over
Accessibility
pmr
Special Mentions
Nudité
TW Violences sexuelles
20—28.11.2026

Please take care

Elsa Chêne &
Bleu Parachute

Theater

‘Limit to your care’ features a life-size female love doll. This piece explores our relationship with these lifelike dolls by examining our connections with others and the ways in which we form attachments.  

Dates and Times

Summary

Limit to your care invites the audience to watch a ‘love doll’ being manipulated on stage. On stage, each of the five performers maintains, without speaking, a unique relationship with this inert female body made of silicone. As witnesses to these interactions, the audience is left to form their own opinions, interpretations and feelings.   

Elsa Chêne explores the underlying issues surrounding the existence and production of this type of object in our contemporary societies. Through a ballet of gestures and movements, the director reveals the possible and sometimes unexpected uses of this doll-like object, as well as the range of reactions it provokes: amusement, fascination, unease or even rejection.   

Limit to your care is an invitation to explore our collective imaginations and their impact on reality, and to question the degree of objectification at work in our intimate relationships. The performance highlights the grey areas and evokes structural forms of domination, prompting us to consider how loneliness can also become a tool of consumerism. 

Co-presented with atelier210.

Cast

Conceived and directed by Elsa Chêne 

Cast: Pascale Gigon, Marion Menan, Denis Robert, Margaux Roussillon, Isis Sebasoni (with Anna Solomin-Ohanian joining the rehearsals) 

Assistant director: Hugo Favier 

Dramaturgy: Olivia Stainier 

Set design: Marie Szersnovicz 

Sound design Patrick Belmont 

Lighting design: Lou van Egmond 

Costume design Solène Valentin 

Technical coordination and direction: Aurélie Perret 

Interns: Camille Mormino (performance), Noam De Crombrugghe and Guillaume Maurel (set design) 

Credits

Support for production, distribution and development AD LIB · artist support 

A creation by Elsa Chêne – Bleu Parachute theatre company 

Executive production by atelier210 

Co-production by atelier210, Théâtre Varia, M.A.R.S Mons (BE), La Coop asbl and Shelter Prod 

With the support of La Fabrique de Théâtre, Cheval noir, la Bellone, Garage 29, Théâtre Marni (BE), Neimenster (LUX), Théâtre Paris-Villette, La Zouze (FR) 

With the support of Wallonie Bruxelles International (mobility grant) and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation – Theatre Department (creation grant) (BE) 

With the support of taxshelter.be, ING and the Belgian federal government’s tax shelter 

Special thanks to Raymond Delepierre and Le Rideau de Bruxelles, Gwen Laroche, Camille Lemonnier and Simon Pons-Rotbardt. 

Tour dates

MARS (Mons, BE) 4 and 5 November 2026 

Atelier 210 (Brussels, BE) 20 and 21 November and 24 to 28 November 2026 

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