Season launch at Prospero | A season of solidarity

The management of the Théâtre Prospero unveiled on Tuesday the 11 shows of its 2024-2025 program. A season with several new works, and also revivals, on the border between the radical and the popular, under the banner of human solidarity. The company is maintaining its flexible pricing this year, based on trust. Regardless of age, each person is free to choose the rate that is best suited to their economic situation.

The event

Safia Nolin: Monitored and punished

After its sold-out presentation at the Festival TransAmériques last June, Monitored and punished is back on the bill in the Prospero’s main hall for 10 performances only. “What meaning do we give to freedom of expression when it materializes into violence?” This is the question posed by Safia Nolin and Philippe Cyr in Monitored and punisheda work conceived from the thousands of insults uttered against the singer over the past few years. These hateful remarks have become the raw material for an extraordinary and entirely musical creation. Armed with her guitar and supported by a choir of around twenty performers, Safia Nolin reclaims the public space with her new compositions, alongside her alter ego Debbie Lynch-White. This show by Prospero, in co-production with l’Homme allumette, the Théâtre français du CNA and Les Plateaux Sauvages (Paris), is presented from September 10 to 21.

We are intrigued…

The specter of dependency seen by Éric Noël

In the intimate room of the Prospero, we will be performing the brand new play by Éric Noël with the very pretty title: Those loving looks of thirsty boyss. “After 60 hours in a gay sauna in Montreal, a man wakes up disoriented, drained, broken. What happened?” This is the opening of this play that echoes the addiction to “crystal meth”, by exposing a chapter in the life of a queer man who will sink completely into his desires, to the point of dispossession of his body, before resurfacing. A real distress, but often invisible in the LGBTQ+ community. Director Philippe Cyr will direct this solo, with actor Gabriel Szabo. From April 8 to 26, 2025.

And also…

The owl : the first text by Sébastien Ricard

Three artists from different generations – Brigitte Haentjens, Sébastien Ricard and Micha Raoutenfeld – explore the theme of monstrosity, drawing in particular on the thinking of the Spanish trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado and that of the geographer Jean Morisset. “Carrying within oneself something that, for others, remains a mystery: is this what is monstrous?”, asks the trio in this audacious creation that tends towards a “new world order”. The owlproduced by the Sibyllines company, is the first text signed by Sébastien Ricard, and will be performed in the main hall in spring 2025. It should be noted that the play Homicidea critical and public success in 2023, will be reprised with Dany Boudreault and Christian Rangel, from November 5 to 16.

Check out the full program