Ça marche. HAPPY END

HAPPY END is a stage piece with deaf teenagers, exploring adolescence as a threshold where celebration meets loss and identity forms amid uncertainty. On stage, they gather to create a shared rhythm: not conventional music, but a way of organizing time through bodies, gestures, and attention. In this fragile space, deafness shifts perception and redefines listening and communication. Meaning emerges across sign, gaze, and movement. As stories unfold without closure, the piece sustains motion rather than resolution. In a world that feels unstable, these teenagers insist on being together, inventing forms of relation that keep something alive, even when the future is unclear. 

Direction & Authorship: Nico Jongen
In collaboration with: Berta Frigola
Dramaturgy: Roberto Fratini 
Performers: Alicia Ferré, Laura Galiano, Melih Hayran
Lights: Júlia Bauer
Sound & Technical coordination: Adria Juan
Sign Language interpreter: Laura Bada
Production & administration: Mariona Signes 
Coproduction: Bozar Brussels, Fundação Serralves Porto, Teatre Liure Barcelona, Teatro
Calderón Valladolid, Nau Ivanow & Ça marche
With the support of Casal Font d'en Fargas

In the framework of the ‘PIT – Perform, Inform, Transform: Participatory Performance in Art Museums’ project, co-funded by the European Union.