Theatre – FRENCH IMMERSION at MOSCROP

fraises-show

Julie Trépanier © Julie Artacho

… a happy play (…) think Amelie with a dash of light therapy, in the dead of winter. You’ll feel like singing as you leave.

— La Presse, Montréal

February 18 to March 1, 2014
Studio 16 – 8 pm
Meet the artists Friday, November 21 and Friday, November 28

Sophie and François wander between love and friendship. They like each other, but don’t want to commit. As Lea, freshly arrived from the countryside, looks for her friend Sophie in the city, François introduces his former lover to Robert, who already knows Lea quite… intimately. Things just get out of hand from there, with our four singletons alternately lying and telling the truth about how they feel and who they are, all in the name of love. And between the reality of these four lives and the script that François is writing, who can tell what’s real and what’s not?

This hilarious romantic comedy is rife with insight, the author of Bashir Lazar offering us organized chaos at its finest, where happenstance, spontaneity and theatricality intertwine in tangled finery.

dragonfly-show

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

From January 22 to 25, 2014
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.

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