Nos ghettos

Like many, Jean-François would like to believe in living together in harmony. Through an alter ego moulded by the everyday cowardly acts of the middle class, the actor and writer J-F Nadeau, accompanied by a hideous doll and swept along by the ferociously mocking funk music of Stéfan Boucher, takes the audience on an astounding urban walkabout. On a street corner near his home he learns the hard way that racism is quite insignificant compared to the indifference that is the first rule of social peace.

Inspired by psycho-geography, which questions the effect of the geographical environment on the individual, Nadeau and Boucher wildly and playfully dissect the commercial section of Bélanger Street at the corner of 2^nd Avenue, where businesses from diverse cultures stand side by each in unwavering mutual ignorance. Expressed in spectacularly rhythmic language, it is a blistering attack on our empty talk and pious hopes.

Produced by La Tourbière
Written by J-F Nadeau
Directed by J-F Nadeau + Stéfan Boucher
Performed by J-F Nadeau + Stéfan Boucher + Olivier Landry-Gagnon
Music flone: Stéfan Boucher + Olivier Landry-Gagnon
Voice Gisèle Kayembe
Set Design Jonas V. Bouchard
Costume and Props Design Elen Ewing
Lighting Design, Assistant Director and Stage Manager Jeanne Fortin-L.
Video Geneviève Albert
Outside Eyes Madeleine Péloquin
Advisors Jean-Philippe Pleau + Marie-Sophie Banville
Technical Director Martin Mantha
Production Director Rachel Gamache
Diction Training Marie-Eve Pelletier

Co-produced by Festival TransAmériques
Presented in association with Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui 

Written by Paul Lefebvre
Translated by Neil Kroetsch

Premiered at Festival TransAmériques, Montreal, June 2, 2018