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Imagine a civil war, but imagine it taking place here. Now imagine that you are the other person, the one placed in a detention camp. Imagine a novel brought to life in a play that is very much attuned to its times. A man of commitment and principles, loyal to certain ideas and to certain writers, director Alain Françon continues to present works by playwrights with a sharp perception of our world, and the adroit maven of language Daniel Danis is one of them.
His most recent play, created in Paris, is a fantastic tragic-comic epic in which J’il, the beloved son of a nation of Métis, leads a convoy of humans on an inner journey, a voyage that calls into question their own earthly legitimacy. Beyond the frontiers of war and peace, in a world at war that could be here or elsewhere, the new piece by Saguenay native Danis draws on the ancient epics and the “chanson de geste” (medieval epic poems) in this tale of the ordeals and exploits of latterday heroes, recounted with the fantastic amazement of the great founding narratives.
TEXT
DANIEL DANIS
DIRECTION
ALAIN FRANÇON
SET DESIGN
JACQUES GABEL
COSTUME DESIGN
PATRICE CAUCHETIER
MAKE-UP, MASKS
DOMINIQUE COLLADANT
LIGHTING DESIGN
JOËL HOURBEIGT
SOUND DESIGN
GABRIEL SCOTTI, VINCENT HAENNI
CHOREOGRAPHY CONSULTANT
CAROLINE MARCADÉ
DRAMATURGE
GUILLAUME LÉVÊQUE
PROPERTY MASTER
PHILIPPE PLANCOULAINE
CAST
STÉPHANIE BÉGHAIN
YOANN BLANC
FRED CACHEUX
ÉRIC CHALLIER
GILLES DAVID
VALÉRIE DE DIETRICH
PIERRE-FÉLIX GRAVIÈRE
PERRINE GUFFROY
DAVID LÉON
GUILLAUME LÉVÊQUE
JULIE PILOD
GILLES PRIVAT
CAROLINE PROUST
CATHERINE VINATIER
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
CONSEIL DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU QUÉBEC
CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA
ASSOCIATION FRANÇAISE D’ACTION ARTISTIQUE
CONSULAT GÉNÉRAL DE FRANCE À QUÉBEC
DANIEL DANIS IS AFFILIATED WITH THÉÂTRE NATIONAL DE LA COLLINE
