Larry Tremblay continues his exploration of the blind spots of Western society with a play on old age. Under the eye of Clovis, a disturbing clown who prowls like the grim reaper, Pierre, Lucie, William, Adèle and Géraldine are “at the twilight of their lives”. Intellectuals chatting freely, they talk about their missing spouses, their children who are losing their bearings, their gifted grandchildren. Expressing with anguish the end of one world and the beginning of another, migratory movements and climatic disasters, they oscillate between confusion and lucidity, judgment and wisdom, trauma and resilience. Beckettian on the edges, sometimes detestable and often endearing, old men are taking stock. Taming their own purpose in around sixty pages that are initially comical, then very moving, they convey the decline of body and spirit, regrets and remorse, the desire to die and the thirst for life. Directed by Claude Poissant, the play has just been created at the Trident theater. It will be presented at the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in March.
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