BlissBy Olivier Choinière
Translated by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Steven McCarthy
Featuring Delphine Bienvenue, Jean-Robert Bourdage, Trent Pardy and France Rolland
In this highly acclaimed Canadian production of Bliss, an oracle stands in a Walmart lunch room and directs three fellow employees in a wild and slippery fantasy taken from the pages of a tabloid.
‘SEE YOU LATER, CELINE,’ reads a headline. What’s wrong with Celine? Why is she turning her back on her glamorous life and adoring fans? And how is her story connected to the story that sits on the opposite page: a complete unknown abused by her family? The truth is, the two stories aren’t related in the least. Until Oracle intervenes, that is. This darkly surrealist theatricalization of sensationalist press stories about Gods and monsters is the ultimate revenge: ours, and yours, too.
Bliss, version anglaise de la pièce Félicité d’Olivier Choinière – qui a connu un succès fulgurant lors de sa création en français à La Licorne en 2007 – a été traduite par l’auteure britannique Caryl Churchill (Top Girls) et a d’abord été montée au Royal Court Theatre à Londres en 2008. Dans cette première production canadienne-anglaise de Bliss, Steven McCarthy, metteur en scène de la compagnie torontoise Candles are for Burning, réunit des comédiens et des concepteurs francophones et anglophones et donne à cette odyssée hallucinée des accents de concert pop.
Candles are for Burning is an emerging company dedicated to exploring the essential present-tense and ritualistic quality of live performance. It produces both plays and concerts with an eye towards blurring the conventional boundaries between live theatre and live music. Since their first production in 2009 of Three Early Plays by Sam Shepard, which was staged in a dilapidated fraternity house ballroom, Candles are for Burning has produced The ElastoCitizens, an 11-piece funk-rock extravaganza, Malaria Lullaby, a trapeze dance play, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, and Monster, an improvised dance music experiment.
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Set and Costume Designer James Lavoie
Sound Designer Diane Labrosse
Lighting Designer Sarah Yaffe and Andrea Lundy, assistant designer Kaileigh Krysztofiak
Cartes Prem1ères
Date Premières : du 22 au 26 janvier
Régulier : 25$
Carte premières : 12,50$
30 ans et moins 22$ - travailleurs culturels, membres de la Fédération des aînés du Québec (FADOQ), Détenteurs de la carte Accès Montréal 20$
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