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June 6
Monument-National
Salle Ludger-Duvernay
English : All night long
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Theatre for Cheerful Insomniacs
An entire night of tall tales — stories of horror, of ghosts, princesses led astray, crazy neighbours and slimy politicians. Love stories that never end or that end badly, tales cobbled together from legends, traditional yarns, true facts, anecdotes, gossip and jokes. Risqué stories, tales that have been short-circuited, borrowed and reworked or pushed to new heights and depths, from black cats to the man on the moon. In an atmosphere that lends itself to pure invention and improvisation that snowballs, eight rough-and-ready kings and queens of the night steal each other’s thunder, telling tall tales while sipping tea. In need of a story in order to hold on and stand fast ? Accept this informal invitation to theatre that goes on all night long, with breakfast included for those actors and members of the audience who go the distance and make it to the finish line. Pillows and teddy bears admitted free of charge.
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© Hugo Glendinning
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Seldom has one seen performers on the stage give off such a sense of spirit with such lightness and evident pleasure. The Gazette
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Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment
In 1984, Tim Etchells established what he calls an artists’ co-operative in Sheffield, in northern England, bringing together eight actors who have been an ensemble now for almost twenty years. Forced Entertainment pursues original, in-depth research on the vocabulary of performance, experimenting with video, CD-ROM, installations and marathon performances. In some thirty projects to date, the collective has created an event-based theatre using the material of daily life. Their performance theatre, which has received kudos in England and across Europe, tackles issues of identity, the language of theatre, urban reality and memory, and is always presented in innovative, subversive fashion.
Forced Entertainment left quite an impression during its first sojourn at Théâtres du Monde in 1998 with Speak Bitterness. The British collective is back in force with a dazzling “ double program ”.
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