Mieko is dead. Barely sixteen years old. The daughter of a couple broken by poverty, she gave everything: her youth, her body, her energy—first to survive, then to help others. When she died, her parents, cornered, entrusted her to a hospital. Her body became a subject of study. But she, the dead girl, did not disappear. She watched. She felt. She spoke, from within.
La jeune fille suppliciée sur une étagère (The Girl Tortured on a Shelf), Évelyne de la Chenelière's stage adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's novel, takes us on an organic journey through death, where the dissected body becomes theater. In a sober and direct setting, Mieko's inner voice resists erasure. Each sample becomes an act of theater. Each silence, a place of memory. The scenes follow one another like the stages of a ritual that is both clinical and sacrilegious, where fiction questions our gaze, our comfort, our humanity. Between disturbing naturalism and poetic vertigo, the show unfolds the end of a body—but not that of a being.
Mieko observes the gestures, voices, instruments, and faces that continue to affect her as if she were no longer there. But she is there. A spectator of her own disappearance, she gently challenges us: how far are we able to see? What are we complicit in? Mieko's story becomes a mirror—intimate, social, political. And her whisper is louder than silence.
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Text: Akira Yoshimura
Translation: Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle
© Actes Sud, 2002
Adaptation: Evelyne de la Chenelière
Concept and direction: Cédric Delorme-Bouchard
Set design and lighting:Cédric Delorme-Bouchard
Costumes: Marie-Audrey Jacques
Sound design and motorized system design: Simon Gauthier
Video design: Pierre Antoine Lafon Simard
Makeup and hairstyles: Angelo Barsetti
Special effects: Olivier Proulx
Movement consultant: Danielle Lecourtois
Dramaturgy:William Durbau
Assistant director: Hélody Dupont-Proulx
Ritualist: ChristelleFranca
Cultural Consultant: Aki Matsushita
Music excerpts: Marie Davidson and Essaie pas
Director: Thomas Lapointe
Sound assistance: PierreTripard
Set design assistance: Charlotte St-Amour
Costume assistance:Charlotte Maréchal
Costume design:Paul Rose
3D design of the motorized system: PatriciaBoutin
Motorized system programming: Nicolas Comtois
Recording studio:The engine room
Technical Director: Jocelyn Proulx
Production coordination (Théâtre du Trillium):Stella Chayer-Demers
Une création de Chambre noire et Théâtre Prospero, en coproduction avec le Théâtre du Trillium
⚠️ This show contains warnings: strobe effects, smoke machine, blinding light, sensitive language (descriptions of sensitive and graphic medical procedures).
"Larissa Corriveau, almost always alone on stage, delivers a truly remarkable performance. She skillfully embodies all the states her character's body goes through [...] Constantly transforming, she gives a remarkable performance. Far from simply playing an inert body, she performs a veritable marathon of carefully studied movements."
"La jeune fille suppliciée" is a material for exploring theatrical language. The show leaves plenty of room for the designers to shine. From the moment they enter the theater, the audience is plunged into a disturbing world. This is thanks, among other things, to Delorme-Bouchard's careful lighting, Pierre Antoine Lafon Simard's video projections, Simon Gauthier's soundscape, and Marie-Audrey Jacques' costumes and props."
This play is presented as part of our artistic program in collaboration with our four founding and resident companies.
Founded in 1975, Théâtre du Trillium contemporary French-language theater writing in Ottawa. With more than 40 years of innovation behind it, it remains at the forefront, supporting emerging artists and exploring digital issues in the arts.
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