Étienne Pilon, Dany Boudreault, Patrice Dubois and Mani Soleymanlou © Danny Taillon
The most audacious element is having given five actors, five bodies, and five voices, the story of the wounded hero. Abrasive, efficient, this audacious production fleshes out the different aspects of the main character, his changing states, and the conflicts that move him this way and that.
— Voir, Montréal
Goldcorp Centre for the arts – 8 pm
Meet the artists Thursday, January 23
Gaston Talbot tells us from the beginning: “I travel a lot.” And yet you immediately understand that he has never travelled. He says: “To keep in touch.” And yet you see that he doesn’t speak English, but rather French through English words. Gaston Talbot never stops starting over, constantly correcting and revising what he has to say about himself, his mother, his troubled childhood games with Pierre Gagnon, not to mention the disturbing dream from which he emerged, after years of silence, speaking English. Little by little, Gaston Talbot sucks you into his downward spiral where the constantly whirling truth takes you over the edge.
Originally performed by Jean-Louis Millette, this classic monologue thundered onto the scene when it was created in 1995. Claude Poissant is now revisiting this “psychological striptease”, this time for five separate actors. Breathtaking.