For its 2026-27 season, la Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain turned an existential threat into its theme: as the network heads toward the end of its current venue , a new address, a new name, a new direction next year, and toward a French election that could reshape culture funding entirely, the season asks the question theatre has always asked: what does it mean to live, and to die, and to go on anyway.

Red drapes echo the stage curtain, a typeface built on touching letterforms speaks to connection, and a Basque and Gascon-inflected type nods to the languages the region has already lost.