Performing arts / Theatre Fest 2026

School: International School of Luxembourg 
Directed by Jason Hudson 
12+
Warning: some allusions to domestic violence but not visible

A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn’t know who he is. A girl worries about an impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy’s heart falls out his chest. A butterfly has a broken wing. 

Laura Lomas’s play Chaos is a symphony of dislocated and interconnected scenes. A series of characters search for meaning in a complicated and unstable world. Bouncing through physics, the cosmos, love and violence, they find order in the disorder of each other. 

Chaos is a contemporary play written by Laura Lomas and shines a spotlight on how we know what we know and how one solitary incident can change the course of one’s life and love.

School: Lycée Michel-Rodange Luxembourg
Directed by Liz Heiter & Tony Kingston
12+

Have you ever had a problem with your laptop, need help following the instructions for constructing a piece of furniture, or are just looking for help making a payment? Try phoning the HELPDESK. They’ll solve your problem. Or will they? Even if you can get through, you could end up having more problems than you started with!

This collection of hilarious short scenes shows how calls to the helpdesk can go badly wrong – for both the caller and the helpdesk worker!

School: Lycée Michel Lucius
Directed by Scott Macky
All ages

“The Truth is the Truth!” 
In this quirky comedy by English poet Ted Hughes, a genius scientist called The Master and her intrepid assistants set out on a voyage to study a meteor about to strike the Earth. They take every opportunity to ​“improve” the traditional peoples they come into contact with, creating industrialised havoc in their wake. Finally, the Master faces the ultimate test of her career when she comes face-to-face with a wise old man on a mountain. An epic struggle of worldviews ensues. The bones of a large tiger loom large. Will the Master prevail? Join us and find out!

School: Lycée Vauban
Directed by Laura Audrit
All ages

The students of an unnamed school find themselves greatly reduced in number and without their class tutor after an unfortunate glitch in the smart system of a school appliance has beamed the latter into (cyber)space. The stranded group quickly realises that it was the newly installed smart bin designed by their very own teacher that caused the disappearance of their fellow classmates. However, they do not know how to prevent the recycling machine from claiming a new victim each night, beaming them into a fearful jungle landscape populated by vengeful wild animals that seem to seek revenge on those who have caused the pollution of their once pristine habitat. Trapped in their classroom, which seems to be filling up with the trash they had once thoughtlessly discarded, the disgruntled crew of tweens must find a way to free themselves and their madcap teacher before they run out of cafeteria provisions.

(inspired by William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies)
School: Lënster Lycée International School
Directed by Sarah Lippert
12+

A plane full of students crashing on a desert island, all the adults are dead. What is to do? Cry? Enjoy the weather? Enjoy a life without school and any other restrictions? While some students can’t wait for the arrival of a rescue team, others use this moment to find out what power really means and how easily people can be manipulated. And so the heavenly beaches turn into hell — at least for some students. 

Inspired by William Golding’s masterpiece novel Lord of the Flies, the LLIS play Of Men and Beasts imagines how this scenario could turn out in a modern and digitalized world.

School: European School Mamer
Directed by Tony Kingston
13+
Warning: contains references to sexual harassment and assault

According to a 2021 article in The Guardian, ​“Girls suffer disproportionately, complaining of sexist name-calling, online abuse, up-skirting, unwanted touching in school corridors and rape jokes on the school bus. Boys share nude pictures on WhatsApp and Snapchat ​“like a collection game”, inspectors were told. A review by the schools’ inspectorate concluded that sexual harassment has become ​“normalised” for young people, in school, online and in other unsupervised spaces including parks and house parties.” What has caused this ​“normalisation” of sexual harassment in schools – and why don’t more people speak out against it? This is a play which asks ​“why”? Following a group of high school students, this collage of scenes looks at harassment in school, assault, date rape, shaming, mascara and video games.

School: St George’s International School
Directed by Arron Lemon
All ages

On a sunny day in the town of Bloomington, a devastating occurrence happens. No, it’s not famine, or floods, or loss of your basic rights. The internet has gone down! In a world that is so dependent on the internet for shopping, emailing, and posting pictures of cute babies, how will society function? Not well, as it turns out. 

The Day the Internet Died explores how inept we are at dating, research, and basic human interactions when we don’t have a screen to look at.

School: European School Kirchberg
Directed by Tony Kingston
12+

A writer lives in a cold flat trying, unsuccessfully, to write her masterpiece. She has no inspiration. She is alone. Or she would like to be alone. Because she has to share the flat with the voices which live in her head. These voices plead with her and beg her to write them a story – but they don’t like anything she gives them. Slowly they begin to challenge her position as ​“the writer” and they try to take control of writing a story themselves. As the struggle between the writer and the voices grows, she is finally forced to confront the reason for her writer’s block.