The Théâtre de Quat’Sous unveiled Friday the plays that will make up the next season, which proclaim loud and clear the virtues of fiction.
Posted at 12:00 p.m.
For Olivier Keimed, co-director general and artistic director of Quat’Sous, the 2022-2023 season marks a return to fiction. “I believe that we have a great need for invention, need for authors and authors who make us make progress through the imagination, who project us into other worlds. Only fiction can do that.
“I am really very proud of this programming, next season is made up of strong and well-camped proposals. assertive proposals. I am also relieved that despite all the postponements caused by the pandemic, we have been able to keep a consistency of the season. The rhythm and the sequence of the seasons have been undermined, but our collective proposal continues to make sense.
“I stay true to my colors, adds Olivier Keimed. I have an attraction for literature, which is embodied in the plays of Trakl, Édouard Louis, Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard. »
But I also want to hear the echoes of what is happening in a muted way in our world. Racism, diversity, social inequalities, which have widened with the pandemic. It’s scary to think about…
Olivier Keimed, co-director general and artistic director of Quat’Sous
Racial segregation, still relevant
The fight against racial segregation will undoubtedly be mentioned in My name is Muhammad Ali, a piece that will open the season with its cast of nine Afro-descendant performers from Montreal. The text written by the Congolese Dieudonné Niangouna pays tribute to the famous boxer, but also questions the condition of the black actor. From September 6 to 21.
From September 28 to October 7, the words of the Austro-Hungarian poet Georg Trakl will resonate with the play Dream and madness. A creation by director Brigitte Haentjens brought to the stage by her great accomplice Sébastien Ricard.
will follow A day, play by Gabrielle Chapdelaine directed by Olivia Palacci. Here, four characters embodied by Nathalie Claude, Rose-Anne Déry, Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon and André-Luc Tessier decide to blow up the hinges of their daily lives. From October 18 to November 5.
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A return
From November 22 to December 10, Martin Faucher will return to the stage in a one-on-one with Félix-Antoine Boutin, directed by Jérémie Niel, for the production of who killed my fatherbased on the best-selling novel by Édouard Louis.
In January, Patrice Dubois directs a text by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard and entitled you are animal. Articulated around The origin of species by Charles Darwin, but set in 2022, the piece notably stars Isabeau Blanche, Lyndz Dantiste, Laurence Dauphinais and Harry Standjofski.
Thousand, by Olivier Kemeid, directed by Mani Soleymanlou, will take over from February 28 to March 25. Here, the interpreter Monique Spaziani (but is that really her real name?) embarks on a quest to discover the roots of her family, all the way to Nazi Austria.
Wollstonecraft will end the season. This text by Sarah Berthiaume, directed by Edith Patenaude, notably addresses the delicate subject of infertility. Ariane Castellanos, Jean-Christophe Leblanc and Ève Pressault will share the stage from April 18 to May 13.