1989
FESTIVAL DE THÉÂTRE DES AMÉRIQUES — 3RD EDITION
À quelle heure on meurt?
Martin Faucher (Montréal)À quelle heure on meurt?
Two children become adults. Two children refuse to grow up, to enter the narrow, sombre tunnel of adulthood.
Border Brujo
Guillermo Gomez-Pena (San Diego)Border Brujo
Americans of native stock (are there any?) are afraid. The U.S.-Mexican border is like a sieve.
El Concilio de Amor
Jesusa Rodriguez (Mexique)El Concilio de Amor
Jesus is a simpleton, his father an incontinent old man and Mary, a show-off.
Hamlet
Hillar Liitoja (Canada)Hamlet
In a vast space, actors and audience wander, uncertain. Where is the play?
Je me souviens
Samy Frey (France)Je me souviens
Memories come and go, twist and turn, and memory trips up over details.
L’Annonce faite à Marie
Alice Ronfard (Montréal)L’Annonce faite à Marie
Violaine kisses a man and becomes a leper. One kiss, a single kiss, and she catches leprosy. A terrible gift of love. Yet while her body rots away, her soul soars . . .
La Negra Ester
Roberto Parra et Andrés Pérez (Chili)La Negra Ester
1940. A brothel in the port of San Antonio, Chile. A singer, Roberto, falls madly in love with a prostitute: Ester.
La Secreta Obscenidad de Cada Dia
Maria Elena Duvauchelle (Chili)La Secreta Obscenidad de Cada Dia
When two voyeurs in trenchcoats meet on a public bench and think they’re Marx and Freud, a whole dimension of twentieth-century history is laid bare.
Le Chien/The Dog
Brigitte Haentjens (Canada)Le Chien/The Dog
A son goes back home, to a trailer home somewhere in northern Ontario. Somewhere, nowhere.
Merz Opéra et Oulipo Show
Denis Marleau (Québec)Merz Opéra et Oulipo Show
Like sparkling jewels riding horseback on madness and laughter, Merz-Opéra and Oulipo Show slug away at the absurd. Seeing them one after the other is like a headlong plunge into a faultless double bill of verbal frenzy and acoustic poetry.
Opium
Lorne Brass (Québec)Opium
Five men, in water up to their ankles, work in a brokerage office.
Pablo
Laura Yusem (Mexico)Pablo
There are three of them, with nothing in common except their memories of Pablo.
Pass The Blutwurst, Bitte
John Kelly (United-States)Pass The Blutwurst, Bitte
Vienna, at the turn of the century. Egon Schiele is a painter, despairing, immensely talented, who wants to love, to live.
Plaques tectoniques
Robert Lepage (Québec)Plaques tectoniques
The story begins a hundred million years ago, when a gigantic mass of rock broke up into the continents.
Six personnages en quête d’auteur
Anatolt Vassiliev (U.R.S.S)Six personnages en quête d’auteur
Heir to Stanislavski and possessed by Dostoievski, Anatoli Vassiliev is a character first and foremost.
Suz O Suz
La Fura dels Baus (Espagne)Suz O Suz
Les hommes avancent, la Nature s’écarte de leur chemin. Les hommes sont en quête.
Terre Promise / Terra Promessa
La Marmaille et le Teatro Dell'Angolo (Québec)Terre Promise / Terra Promessa
The Earth awakes, the volcanos are extinct, life emerges.
The Road to Immortality : Part Three, Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Anthony
Elizabeth Le Compte (États-Unis)The Road to Immortality : Part Three, Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Anthony
Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Antony is the third part of a brilliant and disconcerting trilogy.
WHEN GIRLS COLLIDE
Stewart Lemoine (Québec)WHEN GIRLS COLLIDE
It’s 1943. There’s a war on and Bunsen Bay, Wisconsin, is a town without men. In a town without men…
