Comedian Alex Perron and actor Marcel Lebœuf will play the lead roles in a Quebec adaptation of the famous play The Mad Cage.
The play, adapted by Sylvain Larocque and Joël Legendre, will be presented at the Studio Cabaret of Espace St-Denis from October 3. Legendre will also be directing.
Perron and Lebœuf will play Albin and George, a couple who own a transvestite cabaret called The Mad Cage.
Geneviève Brouillette, Annie Brocoli, and Delphine Morissette are also part of the cast.
The Mad Cage tells the story of this couple, whose life is turned upside down when the son of one of them decides to marry a girl whose parents are ultraconservative.
The public will also be invited to participate before the play and during the intermission in a drag queen show with famous names from this scene, including Michel Dorion.
This play by Jean Poiret is particularly famous for its adaptation to the cinema in 1978. This comedy starred Michel Serrault in the role of Albin and Ugo Tognazzi who played his lover, Renato Baldi.
The film was very successful at the time, especially in the United States. It was also adapted for American cinema in 1996.
While Marcel Lebœuf is used to roles in theatre, television and cinema, Alex Perron has become better known as a comedian and columnist in recent years.
He became famous in the late 1990s with his group, Les Mecs Comiques, and filmed a fictional show with them called 3X nothing. He also performed a solo show about fifteen years ago.