Season of the Survivors | The Press

The Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (CTd’A) unveiled its programming for the 2022-2023 season on Monday. On the program: pieces “closer to the humanities”, the majority of which are survivors of the pandemic.

Stephanie Morin
The Press

“The coming season will be one of victories,” says Sylvain Bélanger, artistic director of the CTd’A. “It will be a very bright, very spring-like season, with artists who find themselves while being transformed, artists who carry an additional depth within them. The shows have also matured: the artists have carried them with them during all these months…”

During the two years of health crisis, the actors have certainly changed, but the public too, believes Sylvain Bélanger. “People buy into shows that are very authentic, very human. They need meditation and depth after the solitudes that have been experienced. »

Audrey Talbot, who signs the first piece of the season at Salle Michelle-Rossignol, is without doubt the perfect emblem of this 2022-2023 program. The playwright and performer recounts in Titan Body, Survival Title, his long rehabilitation after a bicycle accident involving a heavy weight that almost cost him his life. “Audrey is a survivor herself. She returns to the stage and her job after a series of hardships. The play will be presented from September 6 to 24.

This is the case of Cyclorama. From October 11 to November 5, the public is invited to an extraordinary theatrical experience by Laurence Dauphinais. The three-hour show begins at the Centaur Theater in Old Montreal and concludes at the CTd’A, rue Saint-Denis. Spectators will be moved by bus between the two 50-year-old institutions.

Clandestines, by the duo composed of Marie-Claude Saint-Laurent and Marie-Ève ​​Milot, will follow in January. This political thriller depicts, in a dystopian Canada, two women who clandestinely practice voluntary terminations of pregnancy. An opportunity to reflect on the current reopening of the debate on the right to abortion. From January 24 to February 11.

In April, it will be the turn of Daughters of St. Lawrence to go on stage, after a stint at the Théâtre de la Colline, in Paris. The text written by Rébecca Déraspe in collaboration with Annick Lefebvre, and directed by Alexia Bürger, is carried by 10 performers. Here, the characters come face to face with their own truth when they discover unclaimed corpses on the banks of the river. From April 4 to 29.

Note: the Michelle-Rossignol room will also host a special event, a ball orchestrated around the room Piss standing up without lifting her skirt, by Olivier Arteau. From March 2 to 11.

At the Jean-Claude-Germain room

Five pieces will also be presented next season in the intimate room of the CTd’A, starting with Which is a Basquiat, a project that Philippe Racine has been working on for many years. From September 13 to 1^er october.

The playwright Guillaume Corbeil will then offer his solo play Pacific Palisades, worn by Évelyne de la Chenelière, directed by Florent Siaud. The play is inspired by the true story of Jeffrey Alan Lash. The latter, who claimed to be half-man, half-extraterrestrial and said to work for the American secret service, hit the headlines in 2015 when he was found dead in his car… From October 18 to November 5.

Mauritius, by Anne-Marie Olivier (directed by Olivier Arteau), will take over from January 17 to February 4. Each evening, a volunteer will be called upon to share the stage with the playwright and performer. will follow Good looking guy, English Canadian Erin Shields. The piece is planted in an imaginary world dominated by women. With notably Cynthia Wu-Maheux and Gabriel Lemire. From March 14 to 1^er april.

Finally, the room I will come less often will end the season. Playwright and performer Camille Paré-Poirier recorded her nonagenarian grandmother for four years in order to gather the raw material for this intimate show. From April 25 to May 13.