The management of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert unveiled its 2024-2025 program on Tuesday. In addition to the return of Reviewed and correctedat the end of 2024, the company will present five new shows and welcome The Nuns, a production of Théâtre la Marjolaine. Overview.
The event: the magic of Shakespeare with A Midsummer Night’s dream
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Marc Béland will defend the magical and aerial role of Puck in Dream of a summer night.
After going up to the Rideau Vert The Misanthrope, by Molière, in 2015, the director Michel Monty will this time tackle the great Shakespeare. The company, which did not produce the author ofHamlet for a quarter of a century, has been offering his new translation and adaptation of Dream of a summer night, with Marc Béland in the aerial role of Puck. The latter will be surrounded by Bénédicte Décary, Olivier Morin, Mathieu Quesnel, Perfecte Moussouanga, among other actors. From March 12, 2025.
We are intrigued by… Eda Holmes and His last wife
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The artistic director of the Centaur Theater, Eda Holmes, will collaborate with the Rideau Vert in early winter 2025.
The artistic director of the Centaur Theater, Eda Holmes, will collaborate with the Rideau Vert in early winter 2025. She will direct the production of the French version (signed Maryse Warda) of the play The Last Wifeby Kate Henning, which was presented at Centaur in 2019. The play features the historical character of Catherine Parr, Queen Consort of England and Ireland in the 16e century, and the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII. Marie-Pier Labrecque will play the queen; Henri Chassé, the king.
And also… Virginie Fortin at the theater in Dear Parents
Dear Parents, a comedy by Emmanuel and Armelle Patron, has triumphed in Paris for three seasons. It will be staged here in spring 2025 by Marc St-Martin, in a Quebec adaptation by Danièle Lorain, with a brilliant cast: Josée Deschênes and Luc Senay, in the shoes of the parents; Simon Beaulé-Bulman, Steve Gagnon and Virginie Fortin in the role of their children. Ève Landry will open the season with Do good, by François Archambault and Gabrielle Chapdelaine, alongside eight emerging performers directed by Claude Poissant. Will follow in October The boulevardthe adaptation of the award-winning novel by Jean-François Sénéchal, by Frédéric Bélanger, with among others Nathalie Mallette.
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Actors Steve Gagnon and Simon Beaulé-Bulman.
Consult the entire 2024-2025 program