2023-2024

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Parole d’eau

They are two friends, Mamby and Hélène: one lives in Senegal, the other in Canada. What they have in common is that their feet burn: one on the hot sand, the other in her winter boots. What differentiates them is that one lives in the abundance of water, rubbing shoulders with snow and ice, while the other fetches drinking water by carrying it in her basins.

“MAMBY: I think that water transmits everything we say. Water hears all languages. »

This precious liquid, which is missing in many places, is the main character of this show. Before our eyes, Hélène and Mamby give life and voice to the different forms that water can take: spring water, well water, dirty water, rainwater… They express the challenges, fears, frustrations and concerns that they have to face when they come up against the absence or overabundance of water. They take us from Africa from the Sahel to North America.

For ages 6 and up.

Text, direction and acting: Mamby Mawine (ex Patricia Gomis) and Hélène Ducharme

Compagnie Djamara (Sénégal), Théâtre Motus (Montréal) et Dramane Dembélé

Cohosted by VOX Théâtre and Théâtre de la Vieille 17

Text, direction and acting: Mamby Mawine (ex Patricia Gomis) and Hélène Ducharme

Music: Dramane Dembélé

Puppets and accessories: Jean Cummings and Claude Rodrigue

Earth and Water Character: Alessandro Fanni

Costumes: Valentina Sartori

Management and technical direction: to be confirmed

Lights: Jérôme Bérubé

Dramaturgical advisor: Jennifer Tremblay

Participation in the creation of Koffi Mens: Isabelle Chrétien and Claudine Rivest

Thanks to Ramatoulaye Marone, Ramata Fanni, Pauline Tine, Olivier Guillochon and his family

50 minutes

Post-show discussions on November 1, 2 and 3, 2023.

Snack offered.

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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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À table

Three diplomats meet around a table representing their own gourmet tower of Babel with the aim of agreeing on a common infrastructure project.

But how can we understand each other when we don’t speak the same language? Throughout the meal, the diplomats use everything they can get their hands on to get out of impasses… and ultimately have fun like kids! The table then becomes their playground, transforming into an unexpected and unusual sculpture.

By featuring serious characters who delve into playfulness, this show allows us to have fun as well as to think about our way of living together. It’s the perfect opportunity to play problem solving while celebrating the emergence of imagination!

Ideation: Simon Boulerice, Sylvie Laliberté and Serge Marois

Director: Serge Marois

L’Arrière Scène

Hosted by VOX Théâtre

Ideation: Simon Boulerice, Sylvie Laliberté and Serge Marois

Director: Serge Marois

Interpretation: Sarah Desjeunes, Nadine Jean and Sasha Samar

Scenography: Clélia Brissaud

Music: Pierre Labbé

Lighting: Thomas Godefroid

Costumes: Marilyne Roy

Production management: Jean-François Landry

Technical direction: Julie-Anne Parenteau-Comfort

Photographer: Suzane O’Neill

45 minutes

December 6 to 8 décembre. enfance@nouvellescene.com

Post-show discussion on December 6, 7 and 8, 2023.

Snack offered.

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M’appelle Mohamed Ali

A group of black performers take over the stage like Muhammad Ali took over the ring: flying like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. Boxing is a wonderful metaphor for the fight of Black people, both in a fight for equality in a white society and in the fight of any racialized actor or actress to increasingly take their place. and his freedom on Quebec stages. Armed with the sharp language of the immense Congolese author Dieudonné Niangouna, energized by the explosive gestures of the choreographer Claudia Chan Tak, the cast brilliantly imposes the unity of a black presence and its plurality of cultures, generations and backgrounds. .

An actor prepares to enter the stage to play the role of MohamedAli, recounting his fights, those of the boxer, such as his victory against George Foreman in Kinshasa in 1974, but especially those of the political activist, including his refusal to go fighting in Vietnam – a soliloquy which constantly brings the actor back to his own condition.

By making this monologue a story of several voices, the questions, lived experiences and actions recounted there take on a powerful collective magnitude. In turn and in a spirit of unity, the bodies find themselves crossed by the actor, by Ali and by life in Quebec.

This performance is in French with English surtitles on the 3:00 PM show of April 6th, 2024.

Text: Dieudonné Niangouna

Directed by: Philippe Racine and Tatiana Zinga Botao

A production of the Théâtre de La Sentinelle, in co-production with the Théâtre de Quat’Sous and the Festival TransAmériques.

Hosted by Théâtre de la Vieille 17

Author: Dieudonné Niangouna

Directed by: Philippe Racine and Tatiana Zinga Botao

Performers: Oumy Dembele, Vlad Alexis, Lyndz Dantiste, Martin-David Peters, Franck Sylvestre, Rodley Pitt, Widemir Normil, Philippe Racine

Assistance with direction and management: Delphine Rochefort

Scenography: Marie-Ève Fortier

Costumes, makeup and hairstyles: Ange Blédja Kouassi

Lighting: Valérie Bourque

Sound design: Elena Stoodley

Movement advice: Claudia Chan Tak

Production management and tour management: Mathilde Boudreau and Juliette Farcy

Technical direction: Valérie Bourque

Technical direction of creation: Jean Duchesneau

Creation production direction: Martin Émond

Assistance with direction and creative management: Jasmine Kamruzzaman

Thanks :

At the Cole Foundation, at Espace the real world? and to Yves Nicol and Jonathan Charland

75 minutes without intermission

Surtitles on the 3:00 PM show of April 6th, 2024.

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Dans la nuit ou était-ce plutôt le matin

Dans la nuit ou était-ce plutôt le matin invites spectators to feel the impacts that can be caused by a concussion using a poetic theatrical text, video and sound that pass through the skin . The play is performed by three actors who mix vulnerability, resilience and derision. It is also through these aspects that the flaws in our performance society appear. To this personal story is added a touch of fiction and humor carried by the deer involved in the accident.

A text by Elaine Juteau with the support of Trillium.

Directed by Elaine Juteau and Louis-Philippe Roy.

Territoire 80

Hosted by Théâtre du Trillium

Text: Elaine Juteau

Directed by: Elaine Juteau and Louis-Philippe Roy

Director: Émily Payeur

Performers: Alexandre Gauthier, Elaine Juteau and Gabrielle Brunet Poirier

Video design: Yves Whissell

Sound design: Thomas Sinou

Lighting design: Mélanie Whissell

Scenography: Andrée-Ève Archambault

Movement specialist: Laurence Castonguay Emery

Plume design: Emilie Racine

Production direction: Julie Guénnéguès (Théâtre Aux Écuries)

Territoire 80 benefited from the support of the Théâtre Aux Écuries Service Center for the creation of its show In the night or was it rather in the morning.

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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.