“I will come less often”, Camille Paré-Poirier

Inspired by the podcast Someone immortal, the play by Camille Paré-Poirier was created at the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in 2023. Halfway between autofiction and documentary, the monologue parallels the destiny of a woman born in Montreal in 1924, Pauline Trudel, and that of her granddaughter, the author, having been born in Quebec in 1993. Between 2017 and 2021, the actress records the conversations she has with her grandmother. “We have both just moved, me to an apartment in Montreal, her to a residence… We are both experiencing a sort of uprooting, a loss of bearings… And I realize that we are at a moment where our lives intersect. We become a distorting mirror for each other…” Pauline first has vision problems, then cognitive losses, and finally motor skills problems. Shortly after his transfer from the RPA to the CHSLD, the pandemic occurred and his condition deteriorated. This accompaniment, sometimes luminous, often painful, allows the author to articulate a moving reflection of admirable honesty on memory and filiation, aging and illness, boredom and anger, death and grief. The show directed by Nicolas Michon will be presented at the Cinquième salle at Place des Arts from April 23 to 27, then will tour across Quebec, notably at the Périscope from October 8 to 12.

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