For the first time in twenty years of career, the actor and director Michel-Maxime Legault signs a text intended for the stage, a tender and truculent autobiographical monologue where, among other things, it is a question of rurality, identity, mental health , social class, masculinity, homosexuality, theater, piano, filiation and animal mourning. The speaker grew up on a farm in Saint-Polycarpe, in Montérégie. Born in 1982, he is the youngest of seven children. Comical, without being devoid of wisdom, his speech is introspective, certainly, but it also constitutes a vibrant exercise in admiration towards a family that is as dysfunctional as it is benevolent. Michelin is the double of Michel-Maxime, the one he would have become if he had followed the injunctions, the one from whom he will have to end up freeing himself to be completely himself, to live full. Presented on tour starting March 6, the solo directed by Marie-Thérèse Fortin will stop in April at the Grand Théâtre de Québec and in August at the Denise-Pelletier theater.
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