To highlight the 45and anniversary of its founding, the Théâtre du Bois de Coulonge is virtually reborn, thanks to a website designed by Jean-René Caron.
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Remember that this theater installed in a tent in the middle of the park of the same name in Quebec (Sillery) marked its time. From 1977 to 1995, it employed hundreds of actors in the summer, and attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators eager for classic and entertaining theatre.
Initially, the idea of the Bois de Coulonge was to provide Quebec with a summer repertoire theater, a counterpart to the Stratford Festival, and to offer “a theater not for summer, but in summer”, according to the expression by Jean-Marie Lemieux, one of the company’s co-founders and first artistic director. “The company is not really new in Quebec then, but no house has dedicated itself to it for such a long period”, can we read on the site launched this week.
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It contains information on the rich history of the theatre, its programming, its directors and artisans, photos and production posters, sketches of sets and costumes, in addition to testimonials from actors; like Yves Jacques who cut his teeth at the theater in 1980, in volpone, by Ben Jonson, alongside Jean-Marie Lemieux.