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PLAYS NOT YET TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH (Running time: 1 hour and more. Written and produced in French since 2000. Some notes in French may appear below)
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Les pieds des anges [2009]
Published by Leméac Éditeur, 2009.
First production in French: Espace GO, March 2009
Running time: 2 hours
Cast: 5 W 4 M
Between her drafting of her thesis on The Appearance of the Feet of the Angels in Renaissance Paintings, her odd jobs of extra on movie sets and hilarious sessions of salsa dancing, a duplicated Mary, dialogues with herself as a way of healing the wounds left by her brother Paul's suicide: the “Dancer of the Abysses”, a “fragile man carrying the whole world on his shoulders”. The play makes spectators pass from laughter to fear, and from fear of the vacuum to the dream of flying. It explores with an extraordinary balance the difficulty of being and the beauty of the world.
Le plan américain [2008]
Written in collaboration with Daniel Brière.
First production in French: Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental, January 2008
Running time: 1 hour 15
Cast: 2 W 2 M
A satirical comedy. The North American family has an image problem. Its multiple transfigurations have made it difficult to present a clearly identifiable concept to the collective subconscious. Yet the desire for a model remains. The playwrights reinvent the modern family and delight in sullying its image. The story unfolds before our eyes like thousands of pixels in a photograph: what we see is but a fragment next to another fragment next to another fragment... A play that spares no one: parents, children and the family unit are all seen with a fresh eye. Transavantgard theatre meets Just For Laughs. C.B.
L'éblouissement du chevreuil [2007]
First production in French: Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, November 2006
Chinoiseries [2005]
First production in French: Productions À tour de rôle, Carleton, July 2005
Running time: 1 hour 30
Cast: 1 W 1 M
Mr. Chiton and Mrs. Potée, two mysterious individuals in their fifties and long time neighbors, try to meet. Isolation has changed them completely, as if time had transformed them into whimsical creatures. After a strategic analysis of the elements that might lead to a meeting, Mrs. Potée chooses her own peril as a pretext – a surprising scheme.
L'héritage de Darwin [EJ] [2005]
Published by Lansman Éditeur, 2008.
First production in French: Théâtre Le Clou, May 2005
Running time: 1 hour
Cast: 3 M
Montreal, summertime. For Jacques, who has never stepped outside of the city, the season means boredom and routine. For Julien, who comes from a wealthy family, it means adventures without his parents. Julien draws Jacques in a money making scheme. Through a series of horrendous events, Julien thinks about natural selection and the evolution of the human race, Has he enough adapted to his environment in order to survive?
Aphrodite en 04 [2004]
Published by suivie de Nicht retour, Mademoiselle, dans Désordre public, Les Éditions Fides, 2006.
First production in French: Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental, January 2004
Running time: 2 hours
Cast: 4 W 4 M
Max is losing himself. Even worse: he is disintegrating. He starts to hear other people’s thoughts. Slowly, against his will, he enters the mind of certain people, sharing a sudden supernatural intimacy with public transit users. He experiences the bewildering integration and loss of his identity in the crowd of people that surrounds him.
Nicht retour, mademoiselle [2004]
Written in collaboration with Daniel Brière, Evelyne (de la) Chenelière.
Published by précédé de Aphrodite en 04, dans Désordre public, Les Éditions Fides, 2006.
First production in French: Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental, November 2004
Running time: 1 hour 15
Cast: 1 W 1 M
In this saga of a family whose members share a love-hate relationship and an obsession with the presence of absentees, we discover a French upper-class son who has become a rich businessman since he has moved to America, in the late sixties. We also meet his mother, a woman torn between her own desires and what social conventions allow her to do.
Henri & Margaux [2002]
Written in collaboration with Daniel Brière.
Published by Avec 3 autres pièces, sous le titre de Théâtre, Fides, 2003.
First production in French: Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental, October 2002
Running time: 1 hour 30
Cast: 1 W 1 M
A journey into the private life of a couple – Margaux and Henri – on the eve of Henri’s 40th birthday. Small tantrums, doubt, questioning, but mostly tenderness show through this study of the couple, of the desire to meet and to get to know the other, to accept the flaws and differences.
Culpa [2000]
Published by Avec 3 autres pièces, sous le titre de Théâtre, Fides, 2003.
First production in French: Les Productions Méa, April 2000
Running time: 1 hour 10
Cast: 2 W 2 M
Two men, two women, without any apparent connection. In the waiting room of a dental office, they speak by interweaving monologues. From their seemingly insignificant remarks, often made in a defensive tone, slowly arises the guilt they all feel; the teacher dominated by his students, the prostitute haunted by her past, the ungrateful mother and the businessman and his ambiguous love life.
Désordre public
Published by recueil contenant deux pièces, Aphrodite en 04 et Nicht retour, MademoiselleLes éditions Fides, 2006.
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