On the theme of “Dreaming big”, the artistic director of the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Lorraine Pintal, unveiled the program for its 2023-2024 season on Monday, World Theater Day. A season focused on the promise of a better world and an open conversation with the public.
Next season will open in the summer with a double Robert Lepage. His show-river The Seven Branches of the Ōta River (which was canceled last fall due to a fire backstage at the theatre) will finally be presented in August. It will be followed by Courville, a work created at Le Diamant in Quebec that evokes the adolescence of the great director. Olivier Normand defends the main role, surrounded by puppets inspired by Japanese theater, the bunraku. From September 12.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
Some artists of the 2023-2024 season: Alex Bergeron, Marie-Josée Bastien, Florent Siaud, Édith Patenaude, Lyndz Dantiste, Lorraine Pintal and Marc Messier
In November, the company Porte Parole will offer Polytechnic project, a documentary theater play by Marie-Joanne Boucher and Jean-Marc Dalphond, directed by Marie-Josée Bastien. The show will pay tribute to the 14 women victims of the Polytechnique massacre in 1989. It will also be “a space for reflection and consolation with the public” around the issue of feminicides in the world, explains the director of Quebec .
Molière in the new TNM
The management of the TNM strongly hopes that the expansion of its theater will be completed in January 2024. The company will usher in the new year with The misanthrope. This masterpiece by Molière will be staged by the brilliant Florent Siaud, in “a very contemporary and urban reading”. With Francis Ducharme in the role of Alceste, Alex Bergeron, Alice Pascual, Évelyne Rompré, Dany Boudreault… The production will then go on tour in Quebec in March 2024.
From March 19 to April 13, actor Marc Messier will take to the TNM stage to defend the moving role of a man with a loss of autonomy, in The father, by Florian Zeller. Edith Patenaude is directing this “great text”, a “tragic farce” on our relationship with old age and our denial of death. Actress Catherine Trudeau will play Messier as Anne.
The season will end in May with Lysis, creation of Fanny Britt and Alexia Bürger postponed twice because of the pandemic. Lorraine Pintal directs 17 performers there, including Bénédicte Décary, Steve Gagnon, Cynthia Wu-Maheux, Brigitte Paquette, Isabelle Vincent, Olivia Palacci…
PHOTO CATHERINE LEFEBVRE, ARCHIVES SPECIAL COLLABORATION
Olivia Palacci and Bénédicte Décary during the theatrical recording of Lysisin January 2022. The piece will finally be presented next season at the TNM.
From February 23 to March 3, the TNM is happy to welcome the Sentinel Theater, with the revival of the play My name is Muhammad Ali, by the Congolese author Dieudonné Niangouna, directed by Philippe Racine and Tatiana Zinga Botao, with among others Lyndz Dantiste. A show offered as an option to the subscription.
Moreover, subscriptions for the season are on sale now. However, single tickets for the general public will only be offered starting August 19.