Théâtre Catapulte

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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.

Pierre Antoine Lafon Simard, Louis Philippe Roy

A co-production of Théâtre Catapulte and Théâtre du Trillium in collaboration with Zones Théâtrales.

Cohosted by Théâtre Catapulte and Théâtre du Trillium

Texte : Louis-Philippe Roy 

Mise en scène : Pierre Antoine Lafon Simard

Distribution : Danielle Le Saux-Farmer, Alexandre-David Gagnon, Stéphanie Kym Tougas, Gabrielle Brunet-Poirier, Lissa Léger, Sasha Dominique, Marc-André Charette, Jonathan Charlebois, Richard Léger, Carol Beaudry (voix), Isabelle Bélisle (voix), Josianne Lavoie (voix)

Conception d’éclairage : Guillaume Houët et Florence Letarte

Conception sonore : Olivier Fairfield

Conception vidéo : Pierre Antoine Lafon Simard

Conception de costume : Mylène Ménard

Sonorisation : Gabriel Martine

Conseillère dramaturgique : Dominique Lafon 

Régie : Mélanie Thévenaz

Direction de production : Geneviève Caron et Stella Chayer-Demers

Répétiteur : Anne Hamels 

120 minutes

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Tsunami

Élodie is 15 years old and, as sometimes happens to young people her age, her parents get on her nerves royally. Her mother is an Acadian from Nova Scotia, queen of good humor and Christmas carols. His father, for his part, is an anglophone from Manitoba, a champion of short sentences and a lover of newsprint. At the heart of these two cultures, Élodie is a bilingual teenager living in Moncton, New Brunswick.

That evening at dinner, her parents have news to tell her: Élodie’s mother has a serious illness. This will be his last Christmas. Élodie feels both angry and guilty: she had wanted her mother to disappear, but she never wanted her to die!

In the newspaper, there is talk of a tsunami which engulfed several islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Rescuers found only one survivor; she is the last to know the language of her people and to practice the rituals of her culture. Élodie clings to this tragedy which allows her to name this feeling of loss and this avalanche of questions which preoccupy her.

Despite the drama, Élodie encounters moments of hope and humor thanks to her great-aunt Ida, an eccentric who speaks in riddles, and also thanks to Adrien, a young man determined to become her friend. Élodie finds the courage to share her pain with her best friends and to make peace with her parents, while the powerful wave arrives faster than expected to transform everything.

Text by Mélanie Léger, directed by Philippe Soldevila

Escaouette Theater

Hosted by Théâtre Catapulte

Distribution :

Florence Brunet

Karen Chiasson

Ludger Beaulieu

Director: Philippe Soldevila

Sound environment: Jean-François Mallet

Lighting design: Marc Paulin

Scenography, costumes, props: Katia Talbot

Director assistance: Edmonde Haché

55 minutes

April 24 to 26, 2024

Post-show discussion on April 7, 2024.

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Alterindiens

Angel is a young man dreaming of writing the first successful indigenous science fiction book; as for Corinne, eleven years his senior, she is a young woman of Jewish origin who teaches indigenous literature at the university. One evening, without the shadow of a consultation, friends are invited to the couple’s table. The latter are the very image of all their contradictions, representing two social clichés at the extremes of each other: Angel’s indigenous radical activist “boyfriends” and Corinne’s intellectual environmentalist and vegan friends.

On the menu of this satire is a portrait of our irreconcilable cultural differences, moose meat and a vegan lasagna. Everything is therefore in place for the grand deployment of this situation comedy which allows us to thwart predetermined roles and open the door to a space of conciliation.

This show is in French, surtitled in English.

Text by Drew Hayden Taylor, translation by Charles Bender, direction by Xavier Huard

Menuentakuan productions

Hosted by Théâtre Catapulte

Texte : Drew Hayden Taylor

Traduction : Charles Bender

Mise en scène : Xavier Huard

Distribution : Marie-Josée Bastien, Charles Bender, Charles Buckell-Robertson, Violette

Chauveau, Étienne Thibeault et Lesly Velasquez

Scénographie et costumes : Xavier Mary et Meky Ottawa

Conception sonore : Étienne Thibeault et Saali Keelan

Éclairages : Gonzalo Soldi

Assistance à la mise en scène et régie : Jasmine Kamruzzaman

Direction technique : Jean-Christian Gagnon

Direction de production : Alexandre Colpron

1 h 40

Post-show discussion on March 15, 2024.

Surtitles in English every night.

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Le poids des fourmis

L’état du monde pèse lourd sur les épaules de Jeanne et Olivier. Elle vandalise des pubs. Il rêve qu’on brûle sa génération comme une guimauve. C’est alors qu’une élection scolaire est organisée dans le cadre de la — honteusement sous-financée — Semaine du futur. Étant tous deux catalysés par l’espoir qu’ils pourront changer les choses, ils décident de s’affronter dans une campagne électorale ponctuée de discours enflammés, d’expéditions ninjas, de collusion et d’ost*e de licornes. 

À la fois satire politique hallucinée et radiographie de nos angoisses collectives, Le poids des fourmis jongle avec des questions de résistance citoyenne et d’abus de pouvoir. Aussi exubérante que caustique, la pièce invite le spectateur ou la spectatrice à réfléchir au poids qu’il porte et plus particulièrement à celui qu’il possède.    

Pour les 13 ans et +.

Auteur : David Paquet 

Metteur en scène : Philippe Cyr

Théâtre Bluff

Théâtre Catapulte

Texte : David Paquet

Mise en scène : Philippe Cyr

Distribution : Nathalie Claude ou Dominique Quesnel

Gaétan Nadeau ou Philippe Cousineau

Gabriel Szabo ou Lou Savoie-Calmette

Élisabeth Smith

Direction de production : Émanuelle Kirouac-Sanche

Direction technique : Mélissa Perron

Assistance : Vanessa Beaupré

Scénographie : Odile Gamache

Costumes : Étienne René-Contant

Éclairages : Cédric Delorme-Bouchard

Conception sonore : Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux

Équipe technique en tournée : Audrey Janelle, Antoine Breton et Frédérick Bélanger

Codirection artistique : Mario Borges et Joachim Tanguay

26 au 27 octobre 2023. enfance@nouvellescene.com

75 minutes

Discussion après-spectacle le 28 octobre 2023.

Crédit : Yanick Macdonald

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ODE (or the life after looking at the sun in the white of the eyes)

Visionaries in Arkansas claim that the moon has fallen out of its orbit — that it is heading straight for the earth, where it will collide in 24 hours. Not without a dose of humor, a pack of friends meet for a party with the theme of the end of the world, in the mad hope of short-circuiting the inevitable. The night settles and stretches, a precipice where all dreams and excesses are allowed. While the ritual was only a game at the beginning, little by little, the doubt settles in. What if tomorrow really is the end?

A choral piece, ODE questions the collective ritual of the party and the power of solidarity to resist cynicism and panic.

Text and staging : Antoine Côté Legault

Dramaturgy and co-staging : Lisa L’Heureux

Production of Théâtre Rouge Écarlate and La Bibitte, with the collaboration of Théâtre Catapulte

Text and staging : Antoine Côté Legault

Dramaturgy and co-staging : Lisa L’Heureux

Scenography : John Doucet & Marie-Pierre Proulx

Sound creation : Martin Dawagne

Lighting : Tristan-Olivier Breiding

Stage Management : Pascale Courville

Scenography apprentice : Karalee Stevens

Production apprentice : Amélie Duguay

Cast : David Bélizaire, Virginie Charland, Élaine Juteau, Caroline Lefebvre & Chloé Thériault

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MANMAN LA MER (MANMAN THE SEA)

Manman la mer tells the story of Marjolaine, gifted with the power of knowing the future. Discouraged by her mother, the child suppresses her gift of clairvoyance. But twenty-six years later, dismayed by a mysterious and incurable disease, she has no choice but to travel to Haiti and rely on the good care of her grandmother, Manman la mè. Is she a midwife? A mystic? Or merely a simple grandmother full of love?

Manman la mer celebrates women and Haitian spirituality, joyfully exploring themes of mother-daughter relationships while shaking to the rhythm of traditional Haitian storytelling.

Manman la mer, by Haitian-born artist Djennie Laguerre, premiered in Ottawa in February 2020 just before the start of the pandemic. It has since been performed in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Saskatoon, Sudbury, Toronto and Montreal.

Presented by La Presse

Text and performance : Djennie Laguerre

Théâtre Catapulte

Text and performance : Djennie Laguerre
Director and space design : Kamana Ntibarikure
Music and creative support : Sara Rénélik
Movement : Émilie Jabouin
Composition and sound environment : Elena Stoodley
Lighting and projections : Shawn Henry
Costumes : Isabelle Bélisle
Artistic director : Danielle Le Saux-Farmer
Assistant director and stage manager : Katie Rochford
Surtitles and technical advices : Kyle Ahluwalia
Scenography and set construction advisor : Benoît Brunet-Poirier
Tour management : Lani Martel
Production director : Moriana Kachmarsky
Technical director : Carlos Varela Serra
Interpretation of traditionnal song Nan Lakou A : Ferline Regis