Durant des années

At the crossroads of contemporary drama and true crime podcasts, For Years immerses us in rural Quebec in 1999. An island village, lost in the middle of the Ottawa River, becomes the scene of the mysterious murder of a teenager. It is with the aim of answering the questions surrounding this tragedy that, twenty years later, a journalist returns to her hometown to unearth (and divert) this heavy past. But this research was without taking into account the traces left by this event on the small community. How far are we willing to go for glory? After all, maybe some things are meant to stay buried…

After Néon Boréal, the Théâtre du Trillium returns with a new creation, the first digital audio episode of which was presented at the Zones Théâtrales in 2019. In keeping with the avant-garde practices associated with it, the Théâtre du Trillium teamed up with the Théâtre Catapulte for ambitious formal research and designed an interactive scenography generated by artificial intelligence. Blurring the boundaries between human and machine, documentary aesthetics and fiction, For Years echoes a wary era of the media in which journalistic rigor and “fake news” just like truth and falsehood mingle. within the same fresco.