PEEPSHOW
After two pieces that established her reputation as an outstanding figure in contemporary art, Marie Brassard has ventured once again into the realm of the intimate and the forbidden, exploring social taboos and parallel worlds and realities, examining the invisible frontiers that keep us separate and apart, for we are, after all, irrevocably alone. What do we really know about those we are close to and think we understand? What do we know about their thoughts, their secret desires? Words can never adequately describe what we endeavour to express. We thus cannot establish true contact with others or reveal the beastly side we all conceal.
Accompanied by musician Alexander MacSween she becomes transformed, exploring the possibilities of sound design and transmuting technology as a means of giving vibrant expression to the multiple, secret voices of the soul. This is a poetic likeness from the other side of the looking glass that unveils that which cannot otherwise be expressed, but which the theatre allows us to glimpse.
WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PERFORMED BY
MARIE BRASSARD
LIVE MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN
ALEXANDER MACSWEEN
DRAMATURGICAL ADVISOR
DANIEL CANTY
SET DESIGN
SIMON GUILBAULT
COPRODUCERS
FESTIVAL DE THÉÂTRE DES AMÉRIQUES
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE
WIENER FESTWOCHEN
SPIELZEITEUROPA I BERLINER FESTSPIELE
THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DU CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS
GÖTEBORG DANCE & THEATRE FESTIVAL
THIS PRODUCTION HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN
RESIDENCY AT USINE C.
