1995
FESTIVAL DE THÉÂTRE DES AMÉRIQUES — 6th EDITION
Choral
François Tanguy (France)Choral
Choral is based on Kafka’s writing, “so clear and at the same time so ‘beside the point’ that it designates and describes individual social mechanisms almost by default.” (François Tanguy)
Contes du fleuve rouge
Quynh Giao + Dang Anh Nga (Viêt Nam)Contes du fleuve rouge
“A poetic show. And as mysterious as a wizard’s tricks.” An apt comment on the unusual and extraordinary nature of this show and the techniques born in the rice fields, of a centuries-old folk art which remain a well-preserved secret.
Dossier zéro
Mou Sen (People's Republic of China)Dossier zéro
This performance features artists who are participating in an unprecedented cultural and artistic revival in the People’s Republic of China. A Chinese citizen’s destiny is still essentially tied to civil files that government officials dispose of as they please.
Électre, Elektra
Alice Ronfard (Québec)Électre, Elektra
Alice Ronfard’s Électre, Elektra rediscovers the pleasure of creating without a safety net. The show is a rendez-vous with artistic rigour.
Heavy Nopal
Astrid Hadad (Mexico)Heavy Nopal
Known as the iconoclastic Madonna, Astrid Hadad and Los Tarzanes, her group of utterly kitsch musicians recreate the torrid atmosphere of Mexican nights.
Historia de la Sangre
Alfredo Castro (Chile)Historia de la Sangre
Alfredo Castro draws on accounts collected from the marginalized in Chilean society — transvestites, homosexuals, the mentally ill and street and circus performers — to reconstitute and interpret Chilean memory.
I was looking at the ceiling, and then I saw the sky
Peter Sellars (United States)I was looking at the ceiling, and then I saw the sky
This new musical is about the urgency of love and rehabilitating the only truly revolutionary emotion in a society fragmented to the point of falling apart.
La nuit
Anne-Marie Cadieux (Canada)La nuit
Anne-Marie Cadieux is author and director of La Nuit.
Les maîtres anciens
Denis Marleau (Québec)Les maîtres anciens
Denis Marleau, the master sculptor of word and space, tackles Thomas Bernhard, one of the great monuments of contemporary literature. An ingenious and accursed author! In Les Maîtres anciens, a novel sub-titled “comedy”, Thomas Bernhard excels in the art of driving home all his points at once. Reger, the central character in the story, sits in the Borbone gallery of the Old Masters Museum, as he has done every second morning for the last thirty years, gazing at Man with a White Beard by Tintoretto.
Les nuages de terres
Daniel Meilleur + Werewere Liking (Québec + Côte d'Ivoire)Les nuages de terres
Les Nuages de terre (Earth Clouds) represents the successful dream of an encounter between Québécois and African artists. Through a love story in the vein of Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Iseult, it dares to speak of hope.
Savage/Love
Paula de Vasconcelos (Québec)The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi – 1995
Larry Tremblay (Québec)The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi – 1995
The play has an exceptional actor in Jean-Louis Millette who portrays constraint and abandon, distance and intimacy, casually revealing layer upon layer of the complex reality of a world and a life. Alone on stage, he draws us into a strange and troubling odyssey.
