The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi – 2005
Right away, Gaston Talbot declares “I travel a lot”. But the audience soon realizes that he has never travelled. He adds “To keep in touch”. Again, we soon grasp that he does not speak English, but rather French expressed in English words. Gaston Talbot is constantly revising, correcting and changing what he reveals about himself, his mother, his dark childhood games with Pierre Gagnon or what he says about the traumatic dream from which he awoke, after years of silence, speaking English. Bit by bit Gaston Talbot pulls us into a spiral where truth, after endlessly shifting and twirling, takes us to the abyss.
Fifteen years ago at the FTA, this disturbing yet touching piece (starring Jean-Louis Millette under the direction of the playwright) was a sensation. To rediscover the grandeur of this text, Claude Poissant, whose affinity for the works of Larry Tremblay runs deep, will be relying on five actors.
PRODUCED BY THÉÂTRE PÀP
WRITTEN BY LARRY TREMBLAY
DIRECTED BY CLAUDE POISSANT
WITH DANY BOUDREAULT + PATRICE DUBOIS + DANIEL PARENT + ÉTIENNE PILON + MANI SOLEYMANLOU
SET DESIGN: OLIVIER LANDREVILLE
COSTUME DESIGN: MARIE-CHANTALE VAILLANCOURT
LIGHTING DESIGN: ERWANN BERNARD
MAKE-UP ARTIST: FLORENCE CORNET
SOUND DESIGN: TE TAIRAS-TU ?
MOVEMENT: CAROLINE LAURIN-BEAUCAGE
COPRODUCTION FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH ESPACE GO
REDACTION: PAUL LEFEBVRE
TRADUCTION: NEIL KROETSCH
CLAUDE POISSANT (MONTRÉAL)
PÀP
The playwright and director Claude Poissant co-founded Théâtre PàP in 1978. After sharing the artistic direction of the company for a dozen years with René Richard Cyr and Marie-France Bruyère, he became the sole director of PàP in 1999. In 2007 he invited the young stage director Patrice Dubois to become co-artistic director.
