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- MOI, DANS LES RUINES ROUGES DU SIÈCLE (Me, in the Red Ruins of the Century)
Text and direction: Olivier Kemeid
Produced by Compagnie Trois Tristes Tigres, presented at the Thèâtre d'Aujourd'hui
Artistic Director: Marie-Thérèse Fortin
I liked this piece because the author describes the life story of an actor- Mr Sasha Samar from Ukraine and who has lived in Montreal since 20 years. His life reads like a novel, from the years of the Soviet Union to the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the actor performing it, interpreted his own role in the play. This very moving play, often funny, gives an insight to a new generation of immigrants in Quebecois theatre. The playwright and director, Mr Kemeid, was born in Egypt. Seeing such overtly foreign characters on stage is quite new in Quebec.
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MOI, DANS LES RUINES ROUGES DU SIÈCLE
(ME, IN THE RED RUINS OF THE CENTURY)
Sasha Samar, with his family in the background.
Photo Credit: Stephanie Capistran-Lalonde |
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- LA CORNEILLE (The Carrion Crow)
Text: Lise Vaillancourt
Director: Geoffrey Gaquère
Production by Thèâtre du Rideau Vert
Artistic Director: Denise Filiatrault
This play is about a middle-class, single woman in her mid-40s. She lives alone in a loft. Her relations with her mother have become quite distant over the years. At the beginning of the play, a carrion crow (big black bird) is in the loft and she tries to get rid of it by opening the window. Then the mother arrives with a suitcase. It looks like she wants to be with her daughter now. For dinner first, and then it seems, forever. The daughter is embarrassed, but can't ask her mother to leave. From time to time, the mother disappears somewhere in the loft, in some impossible places; the daughter finds her behind the stove, or even in the refrigerator. She looks more and more like a scared black bird. At the end, the mother will simply disappear in the air, symbolizing her passing away. Finally, the reason she came to reconcile with her daughter was to prepare her leaving from earth.
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LA CORNEILLE (THE CARRION CROW) |
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- UNE VIE POUR DEUX (A Life for Two)
Text: Evelyne de la Chenelière
Director: Alice Ronfard
Production by Thèâtre Espace Go
Artistic Director: Ginette Noiseux
This play is based on the real life and relations of a couple who are very well known in the Quebecois theatre. The couple Jean-Pierre Ronfard and Marie Cardinal, both passed away a few years ago. The play has been written by an actress who worked with them, and it has been directed by one of the daughters of the couple. The relations between the man and the woman are difficult. The woman is an author of novels, who became famous when she wrote a book about her psychoanalysis. She had three children with her husband, and wanted to remain free while having a literary career. She loved her husband and wanted to let him have his freedom, so she was happy and jealous at the same time. While the two actors did not actually imitate the couple, they strongly brought them back to life in a moving and funny way.
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UNE VIE POUR DEUX (A LIFE FOR TWO)
Photo Credit: Caroline Laberge |
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