Théâtre 

The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi



May 30, 31 & June 1, 2 at 8 p.m.
Duration: 1 h 15
In French expressed in English words

May 31: Meet the artists after the performance

Regular Price: 38$
25 and under, 65 and over: 31$

OTHER ACTIVITIES

May 31: Meet Claude Poissant + Larry Tremblay > QG > 5 pm

Photos
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PĂ P /
Montréal
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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.

The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi
Claude Poissant

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. A company committed to discovering great plays, PàP has presented major works by Quebec playwrights – including Les feluettes by Michel Marc Bouchard, Cul sec by François Archambault and Motel Hélène by Serge Boucher – introduced audiences to new voices such as Fanny Britt (Couche avec moi, c’est l’hiver), Étienne Lepage (Rouge gueule) and David Paquet (Porc-épic), and featured works from elsewhere such as Les amis by the Japanese writer Kobo Abe (Les amis), Unity, mil neuf cent dix-huit by Canadian playwright Kevin Kerr and Le traitement .by British writer Martin Crimp.

Press Quote(s)

Abraham Lincoln va au théâtre de Larry Tremblay, mise en scène de Claude Poissant, création 2008

  « La crĂ©ation du Ventriloque, en 2001, nous l’avait dĂ©jĂ  brillamment dĂ©montrĂ© : quand la matière prodigieuse de Larry Tremblay rencontre les lumières et la sensibilitĂ© de Claude Poissant, animateur passionnĂ© du Théâtre PĂ P depuis maintenant 30 ans, le rĂ©sultat ne peut ĂŞtre que remarquable. Abraham Lincoln va au théâtre confirme la règle. »

Christian Saint-Pierre, Voir, mai 2008

« Du travail de Poissant, que dire de plus qu’il est Ă  la hauteur de celui auquel il a habituĂ© son public, dans les dernières annĂ©es : efficace, inventif et sans enrobage inutile. Â»

Sylvie Saint-Jacques, La Presse, mai 2008

« Assister Ă  un spectacle de Larry Tremblay, c’est plonger Ă  chaque fois dans une Ĺ“uvre fascinante et inusitĂ©e. Â»

David Lefèvre, MonTheatre.qc.ca, avril 2008

Le Ventriloque de Larry Tremblay, mise en scène de Claude Poissant, création 2001

« Sinueux, ambigu, diaboliquement ludique dans son art de l’attitrĂ©e et du brouillage des pistes, le texte de Tremblay est d’une vive intelligence […] Le bonheur a voulu qu’il passe au tamis Ă  fines mailles de l’art de Poissant. Rien n’a Ă©chappĂ© Ă  la vigilance de ce solide faiseur de théâtre. […] Du grand style. Â»

Jean St-Hilaire, Le Soleil, décembre 2003

 Â« Claude Poissant a mis en scène cette fable bourrĂ©e de mĂ©taphores avec toute la clartĂ© possible, distribuant les rĂ´les Ă  des acteurs capables d’un grand dĂ©pouillement Â»

Solange Lévesque, Le Devoir, novembre 2001

Credits

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