The company’s first shows (Dieu est un DJ in 2002, Tout. En une nuit. in 2005, Sous la glace in 2007 and Nothing hurts in 2008) were created from texts by the German author Falk Richter, for whom Anne Monfort is also the translator. In parallel to this long collaboration with Richter, she has created text montages, as well as performance-like forms. She has also worked on site-specific shows, such as Next Door (2009), which took over empty flats before they were rented out, or specific installations such as Les fantômes ne pleurent pas (2012), in which the spectators do not attend the same show depending on which side they are on. During this process, a precise directing style was developed, working according to a system of cinematographic editing, where the actor is the bearer of the change in form – it is the change in the code of acting that makes the whole performance shift from documentary to fiction, from political to poetic. This work was undertaken through the director’s collaboration with loyal actors, by honing the prosody, with breaks and changes in the register that shift the show into another genre.  This was the case for Black house (2014), Temps universel +1 by Roland Schimmelpfennig (2015), Morgane Poulette (2017).

The company has also teamed up with the author Sonia Willi, to set up an in-depth collaboration between script and stage writing, and with her created Quelqu’un dehors moi nulle part in March 2012 at the Halle aux Grains-Scène nationale de Blois, as well as the short play EXIT in 2013 for Festival 360 in Montreuil. In 2014, she rejoined Falk Richter for Et si je te disais, cela ne changeait rien, a work based on unpublished material from his journals.  She then commissioned Mickael de Oliveira, a Portuguese author, and Ulrike Syha, a German author, to write No(s) révolution(s), a work for which a historian joined them. The day-for-night company has been working with the author Thibault Fayner, for whom it created Morgane Poulette, and who is working on a new play.

Working on literary material, particularly novels, is a long-term project for the company. Since its move to Franche-Comté, day-for-night has collaborated with Agence Livre et Lecture for stage readings and has therefore met many authors. 

In Perséphone 2014 after Gwenaëlle Aubry (2016), Désobéir- Le monde était dans cet ordre à quand nous l’ont trouvé, after Mathieu Riboulet (2018), and Pas pleurer after Lydie Salvayre (2019), novels have enriched the show’s text but also its scenic dimension, combining literary and textual materials and other elements in harmony.