The FTA is well started and the 2nd week of shows begins! Here's what to expect this week:
Elenit
EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS
Propelled by a wind turbine, a parade of strange characters and a prehistoric beast gravitate around a smoke-spewing creature. A work swept by an irrational wind, Elenit thrusts the spectator into a burlesque tale where chaos rules supreme. A combat in the present, before we disappear.
June 1, 2, 3 and 4, 2022 at Théâtre Jean-Duceppe
Traces – Discours aux Nations Africaines
FELWINE SARR + ÉTIENNE MINOUNGOU
Accompanied only by a kora player, a man uses the power of language to address the entire continent of Africa, displaying the dignity, benevolence and strength that radical revelations bring about. June 3, 4 and 5, 2022 at Maison Théâtre
High Bed Lower Castle
ELLEN FUREY + MALIK NASHAD SHARPE
True to its title, High Bed Lower Castle inverts perspectives. It’s a true-false tale of giant beds and tiny castles that mixes archetypal characters.
May 27, 28, 30, 31 and June 1, 2022 at Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines |
Save the last dance for me
ALESSANDRO SCIARRONI
| Joined together, the two men hold each other gracefully, defying stereotypes of gender identity. Tenderness and technical mastery combine in a moving act of collaboration. May 31 and June 1, 2022 at Cité-des-hospitalière, June 2 and 3, 2022 at Casa d’Italia |
Les jolies choses
CATHERINE GAUDET
Catherine Gaudet seeks a space within bodies where desires can be reborn despite the burden of constriction.
May 28, 29, 31 and June 1, 2022 at l’Édifice Wilder – Salle Rouge
Malaise dans la civilisation
ALIX DUFRESNE + ÉTIENNE LEPAGE
Strange and playful, Malaise dans la civilisation allows us to observe complex, fascinating beings who innocently venture to the limits of morality.
May 28, 29, 30 and June 1, 2022 at Théâtre Prospero
L’homme rare
NADIA BEUGRÉ
L’homme rare invites us to experience both the joy and light of dance and the weight and darkness of History, conveying it all with energy, generosity, humour, and power.
May 29, 30, 31 and June 1, 2022 at Théâtre Rouge du Conservatoire
Adventure can be found anywhere, même dans la répétition
PME-ART
Seated around a large table, a group of artists apply themselves to the task of rewriting the journals and notebooks of the U.S author and activist Susan Sontag. They reappropriate her words and unpack their possibilities, altering the substance of the text by projecting themselves into it.
June 1, 2, 3, 4,5,7, 8 and 9, 2022 at Galerie Léonard & Bina Ellen
Lavagem
ALICE RIPOLL
The performance shows the interconnectedness of bodies, their complex and fragile intertwining, and it spatters the roles assigned in a profoundly unequal society.
June 2, 3, 4 and 5, 2022 at L’Usine C
The History of Korean Western Theatre
JAHA KOO
Jaha Koo, as heir to an amputated memory, probes the shadows of childhood and the blind spots of History to create from the ruins of the past a form of theatre that responds to the present.June 2, 3, 4 and 5, 2022 at Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui
Make Banana Cry
ANDREW TAY + STEPHEN THOMPSON
Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson are at the helm of Make Banana Cry, a subversive runway featuring a parade of body politics prepared to trouble the Western gaze.
June 2, 3, 4 and 5, 2022 at L’UQAM Pavillon Sherbrooke – Salle Polyvalente
La conquête du béluga
MARYSE GOUDREAU + THÉÂTRE À TOUR DE RÔLE
At dawn or at sunset, five members of parliament address a crowd on the shore of the St. Lawrence River. They talk about fishing rights, the economy, and protecting marine species. Their powerful, direct voices mix with the captivating sounds of the marine mammals at the heart of the debate.
June 3, 4 and 5, 2022 at Plage de l’Horloge
Them Voices
LARA KRAMER
This solo performance explores the relationship between the artist’s body and her memory, calling upon notions of performance, social critique and cultural resistance. With Them Voices, Lara Kramer excavates a world where stories come together to assess the consequences of our actions on future generations.
June 4, 5, 6 and 7, 2022 at Espace Libre
Confession publique
MÉLANIE DEMERS
Confession publique explores ambiguity and paradox, probes the noble and the vulgar, oscillates between grace and brutality. The result is a hard-hitting solo show, where anecdotes become painful secrets and the body reveals as much as words, if not more.
June 4, 5, 8, and 9, 2022 at Théâtre Prospero
