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LE TRAITEMENT

CLAUDE POISSANT | THÉÂTRE PÀP

Movie producers are hiring unknowns to tell their tales. Trafficking in the life stories of the unfortunate for voyeurs eager for more reality TV is the shock treatment provided by the English writer Martin Crimp. This mercenary world where art is bought and sold on the multicultural streets of New York is the meeting ground for some fifteen strange and fascinating characters, from the down-to-earth to the surrealistic, including a former playwright obsessed with voyeurism, a taxi driver who is an Oedipus clone in an exhilarating off-kilter America, and a black actor who ends up producing and directing the film.

Details

Steadfast in his desire to share distinctive, powerful works with audiences, Claude Poissant (who has introduced Montrealers to a wide range of playwrights) pursues with passion and a constant appetite for chaos an approach whereby he follows his own path, cultivating the garden of instinct, ever on the lookout for delinquency.

Credits

TEXT
MARTIN CRIMP

TRANSLATION AND DIRECTION
CLAUDE POISSANT

SET DESIGN
JEAN BARD

COSTUME DESIGN
LINDA BRUNELLE

LIGHTING DESIGN
ÉRIC CHAMPOUX

ORIGINAL MUSIC
NICOLAS BASQUE

CHOREOGRAPHY
DAVE ST-PIERRE

MAKE-UP ARTIST
ANGELO BARSETTI

PROPERTY MASTER
MATHIEU GIGUÈRE

CAST
PETER BATAKLIEV
FÉLIX BEAULIEU-DUCHESNEAU
VIOLETTE CHAUVEAU
AMÉLIE CHÉRUBIN-SOULIÈRES
FRANCIS DUCHARME
CATHERINE LAROCHELLE
WIDEMIR NORMIL
GILLES RENAUD
CATHERINE TRUDEAU

COPRODUCTION
FESTIVAL DE THÉÂTRE DES AMÉRIQUES