LITTORAL + INCENDIES + FORÊTS

WAJDI MOUAWAD

What have we inherited? What are the forces from the past that, despite everything, determine our thoughts and actions? In this monumental work, with its boundless lyricism and exceptional performers, Wajdi Mouawad thrice takes the audience from darkness to light. Wilfrid in Littoral, Jeanne and Simon in Incendies and Loup in Forêts are very young adults who find themselves facing a terrible destiny – war, exile, perverted ideologies, dehumanizing events – forces that have fashioned our times and our lives.

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Pieced together from fragments of disintegrated history, these three epic tales blaze like emblems of youth that refuses the death imposed upon it, drawing bewitching strength from ancient myths. This impressive theatrical odyssey is making a stop in Montreal, for one performance only. A major event!

Credits

PRODUCED BY AU CARRÉ DE L’HYPOTÉNUSE + ABÉ CARRÉ CÉ CARRÉ – COMPAGNIES DE CRÉATION

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY WAJDI MOUAWAD
WITH JEAN ALIBERT + ANNICK BERGERON + VÉRONIQUE CÔTÉ + GÉRALD GAGNON + TEWFIK JALLAB + YANNICK JAULIN + ANDRÉE LACHAPELLE + JOCELYN LAGARRIGUE + LINDA LAPLANTE + CATHERINE LAROCHELLE + ISABELLE LEBLANC + PATRICK LE MAUFF + MARIE-FRANCE MARCOTTE + BERNARD MENEY + MIREILLE NAGGAR + VALERIY PANKOV + MARIE-EVE PERRON + LAHCEN RAZZOUGUI + ISABELLE ROY + EMMANUEL SCHWARTZ + GUILLAUME SÉVERAC-SCHMITZ + RICHARD THÉRIAULT
DRAMATURGY: CHARLOTTE FARCET
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: ALAIN ROY
ARTISTIC CONSULTANT: FRANÇOIS ISMERT
SET DESIGN: EMMANUEL CLOLUS
LIGHTING DESIGN: MARTIN LABRECQUE + MARTIN SIROIS
COSTUME DESIGN: ISABELLE LARIVIÈRE
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: MICHEL F. CÔTÉ
SOUND DESIGN: MICHEL MAURER
MAKE-UP ARTIST AND HAIR STYLIST: ANGELO BARSETTI

COPRODUCTION ESPACE MALRAUX SCÈNE NATIONALE DE CHAMBÉRY ET DE LA SAVOIE + FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON
WITH THE SUPPORT OF MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE, DES COMMUNICATIONS ET DE LA CONDITION FÉMININE DU QUÉBEC + CONSEIL DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU QUÉBEC + MINISTÈRE DES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES DU QUÉBEC + CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA + CENTRE CULTUREL CANADIEN + RÉGION RHÔNE-ALPES + SERVICE CULTUREL DU CONSULAT GÉNÉRAL DE FRANCE À QUÉBEC + CULTURESFRANCE
PRESENTED BY FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES
IN ASSOCIATION WITH PLACE DES ARTS + CARREFOUR INTERNATIONAL DE THÉÂTRE DE QUÉBEC + THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS/CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS DU CANADA

REDACTION: PAUL LEFEBVRE
TRADUCTION: NIEL KROETSCH

WAJDI MOUAWAD (PARIS-MONTRÉAL)
AU CARRÉ DE L'HYPOTÉNUSE + ABÉ CARRÉ CÉ CARRÉ

Since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada, Wajdi Mouawad has been pursuing a four-pronged career as an actor, playwright, director and producer, at times assuming all four duties in the same piece, as was the case for Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes (1998), produced in 2002 (like most of his previous plays) by Théâtre Ô Parleur, which he founded with Isabelle Leblanc. In 2000 he was appointed artistic director of Théâtre de Quat’ Sous, where he mounted a memorable Trainspotting (1998).

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