The Théâtre du Nouveau Monde unveiled on Monday the five plays that will be presented during the 2022-2023 season. And the love of the theater appears as the big red thread of the programming.
Posted at 2:07 p.m.
Updated at 3:04 p.m.
The theatrical art was often abused during the two years that the pandemic lasted, but the TNM offers it a place of choice for the next season. Indeed, the five plays that will be presented celebrate theater from near or far in all its guises.
“The theater will be in the spotlight next season: the passion for the theater, the contagion of the theater, but also behind the scenes of creation”, explains the general and artistic director of the TNM, Lorraine Pintal. “The programming of the 71and TNM season will offer lyrical, tragic, whimsical theater that is always in motion. »
Several pieces scheduled for next season were originally scheduled to be presented in 2020-2021, “and it is a great pleasure to program these pieces for 2022-2023. This season is intended to be a season of great freedom where we want to give the public happiness and hope,” adds Lorraine Pintal.
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Actors Éric Robidoux (left) and Jean-François Casabonne (right), stars of the play The novel by Monsieur Molière, surround the general and artistic director of the TNM, Lorraine Pintal.
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Actor Luc Bourgeois, director Catherine Vidal, playwright Larry Tremblay and actor Bruno Marcil are among the artisans of the play Abraham Lincoln goes to the theater.
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The room I’m writing to you in the middle of a beautiful storm is directed by Maxime Carbonneau and adapted by Dany Boudreault
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Part of the cast of the room The dreamer in his bath : Marie-Ève Trudel, Sébastien René, Normand D’amour, Cynthia Wu-Maheux and Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon
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Some of the artists involved in the play La nuit des rois: Jean-Philippe Perras, Yves Jacques, Clara Prévost, Frédéric Bélanger and Alex Desmarais.
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The season will open with the great Williams Shakespeare and his comedy Twelfth Night, directed by Frédéric Bélanger and adapted by Rébecca Déraspe. “I have a desire to talk about love in all its facets,” says the director. Two young performers, Clara Prévost and Thomas Derasp-Verge, will camp the twins Viola and Sébastien, shipwrecked on the island of Illyria. Benoit McGinnis, Yves Jacques and Marie-Pier Labrecque are also in distribution.
The play will follow in November Monsieur Molière’s novel, inspired by the work of Ukrainian Mikhail Bulgarov. This will be an opportunity to discover the great French playwright in a different light, who will be interpreted here by Éric Robidoux. Jean-François Casabonne will be Bulgarov. An imposing distribution will be added to them. “It’s a tasty text for theater people and I hope it will be just as much for the public,” says Lorraine Pintal, who is directing this show.
In January, the love correspondence between the writer Albert Camus and the actress Maria Casarès will be at the heart of the play I’m writing to you in the middle of a beautiful storm. Dany Boudreault will be in charge of the adaptation and Maxime Carbonneau of the staging. To carry this piece, a duo of renowned actors: Steve Gagnon and Anne Dorval. “Between Camus and Casarès, creation feeds on love and love feeds on creation,” says Dany Boudreault.
Another great character will be called to the stage in March with the play Abraham Lincoln goes to the theater, directed by Catherine Vidal. A big question hangs over this unclassifiable text, written by Quebecer Larry Tremblay: how did a 26-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth, manage to assassinate the American president in 1865? Didier Lucien, Bruno Marcil, Luc Bourgeois and Mani Soleymanlou will share the stage.
The season will end with a creation: The dreamer in his bath, from an original text and a production by Hugo Bélanger. We will meet a dreamy artist (Normand D’Amour) who has spent the last 20 years in his bath waiting for the genius idea that will conclude his work. Cynthia Wu-Maheux, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon and Sébastien René, in particular, will be added to the distribution.
In addition to these five plays, the TNM will also offer a non-subscription show in August: the river play The Seven Branches of the Ōta Riverby Robert Lepage.