King Dave in English, a new play by Steve Galluccio and a daring documentary production by Laurence Dauphinais that explores the divide between English and French-speaking theaters in Montreal will make up the core of Centaur’s next season.
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“This season is a love letter to Montreal artists who have persevered through the pandemic and to the public who have stayed with us throughout,” Centaur executive and artistic director Eda Holmes said in a statement. We need to come together again around stories that celebrate our community and our common cause as human beings. »
The Old Montreal institution’s season begins on October 11 with Cyclorama, in collaboration with the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui. This project by multidisciplinary designer Laurence Dauphinais (SIRI) is interested in the fracture between the French and English theatrical worlds of Montreal. “Since my graduation, I have worked in the French-speaking community as well as with anglophones, and I realized that the two communities practically knew nothing about each other “, she explains. Things will not stop there.
After a play by Hannah Moscovitch who takes an interest in the #metoo movement in university circles (Sexual Misconduct Of the Middle Class), Steve Galluccio will offer At the Beginning Of Time. Described as the Italian-Montreal playwright’s “most personal” work since Mambo Italianothe play is about a gay man in his fifties who is forced to reinvent himself when he thought his life was going like clockwork.
King Dave by Alexandre Goyette, which was finally taken over by Duceppe and toured Quebec, will be presented in an English adaptation in spring 2023. Patrick Emmanuel Abellard, who has been performing this solo since spring 2021, will take over the role created by the author in 2005.
As a finale, the Centaur presents, in May 2023, Little Willy, creation of the amazing puppeteer Ronnie Burkett. He revisits Romeo and Juliet of Shakespeare in the style of the Daisy Theatre, a cabaret he invented, and promises a memorable opening: a puppet striptease! Burkett is the author of a host of daring productions that have sometimes tackled delicate themes such as censorship and Nazism.