The last performance at The Machinery 54 d’Homécourt (Meurthe-et-Moselle) will take place on 9 November. Management announces in a press release this Wednesday the “permanent closure” of this contracted live performance stagein the territory of Orne Lorraine Confluences. Struggled financially for several months now, La Machinerie 54 says no longer able to ensure business continuity lack of financial commitment on the part of the community of commune of Orne Lorraine Confluence, which subsidized the association to the tune of more than 600,000 euros.
Its dissolution was approved during a board meeting on October 26. “By its silence of the last months, OLC condemned the team to work without forecasts, in the urgency and the redesign of its projects, suggesting that their missions did not need to be subsidized in advance to be implemented. in places“, writes La Machinerie 54 in its press release and speaks of a “cultural and human waste“.
Workforce restructuring in the summer of 2022
A procedure of collective redundancy personnel is underway., no one will be employed from the end of November. 16 people were employed there on January 1, 2022, before a restructuring during summer reduce the team to seven people.
During the 2021-2022 season, La Machinerie 54 attracted 11,000 spectators for 165 performances and 272 days of show creation. Its end of activity is therefore scheduled for November 9, at the end of the show “the Genealogy of Lies”.