Dimanche

Adult audience, 12 years +

Official opening show

The Wednesday, March 5th performance will be preceded by a cocktail reception hosted by the  General Delegation of Wallonia-Brussels in Québec to celebrate Casteliers’ 20th anniversary, starting at 6 p.m. at the Petit Outremont. Theatre doors will open at 7 p.m. The show will be preceded by opening remarks.

Dimanche interweaves the story of three reporters working on a documentary about endangered animals and the story of a family struggling to keep their Sunday dinner routine together in a house buckling under extreme heat and gale-force winds. In a setting reminiscent of Wes Anderson’s cinematography, strange objects, puppets, miniatures, and video create the illusion of a humanity totally out of step with the times, doing its very best to preserve its everyday existence, to the point of complete absurdity.

Dimanche reveals a poetic, disturbing, and ultra-visual gesture theatre that questions our way of being in the world.

• Best Show, Maeterlinck Awards, Belgium, 2020
• Best Artistic and Technical Creation, Maeterlinck Awards, Belgium, 2020

Dimanche is a poignant, beautiful, and funny performance featuring an outstanding cast. It’s captivating from start to finish.

—The Advertiser

A charming blend of fact and fiction with a vintage aesthetic and a very current message.

— Edinburgh Guide

Language: Without words
Running time: 75 minutes
Techniques: Gesture theatre, object and puppet theatre, video

The show will be followed by a talkback with the artists.

Video

Photos

Photos: Virginie Meigne and Alice Piemme

Company

The Focus and Chaliwaté theatre companies joined forces in 2016 to write as a collective. After following each other’s work closely for many years, it became clear that they shared a similar approach and a taste for unusual visual, handcrafted, and poetic forms of theatre. They combined their skills to create a writing style incorporating gesture theatre, object theatre, puppetry, acting, and video. With meticulous attention to detail, they have created a singular, visual, and poetic language that is rooted in the everyday, the intimate, the “infra-ordinary,” to tap into the universal.

Credits

Written and directed by: Julie Tenret, Sicaire Durieux, Sandrine Heyraud
Performance: Nicolas Ghion, Sandrine Heyraud, Sicaire Durieux, Julie Tenret, David Alonso Morillo, Léonard Clarys
Puppets: WAW! Studios/Joachim Jannin
Puppet creators’ assistants: Jean-Raymond Brassinne, Emmanuel Chessa, Aurélie Deloche, Gaëlle Marras
Scenography: Zoé Tenret
Stage set construction: Zoé Tenret, Bruno Mortaignie (LS Diffusion), Sébastien Boucherit, Sébastien Munck
Lighting design: Guillaume Toussaint Fromentin
Sound design: Brice Cannavo
Outside eye: Alana Osbourne
Video and photography: Tristan Galand
First AC: Alexandre Cabanne
Key Grip: Hatuey Suarez
Underwater filming: Alexandra Brixy
TV news video filming: Tom Gineyts
Video post-production: Paul Jadoul
Sound (video): Jeff Levillain (Studio Chocolat-noisette), Roland Voglaire (Boxon Studio)
Costume assistant: Fanny Boizard
General stage management: Léonard Clarys
Stage management: Léonard Clarys, Isabelle Derr, Hugues Girard, Nicolas Ghion, David Alonso Morillo, Baptiste Leclere, Britte van Meurs

A co-production with: Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Théâtre de Namur, Maison de la Culture de Tournai/Maison de la création, Le Sablier — Ifs (FR), Arts and Ideas New Haven (USA), Adelaide Festival (Australia), Auckland Arts Festival (New Zealand), Théâtre Victor Hugo de Bagneux, Scène des Arts du Geste/EPT Vallée Sud Grand Paris, and La Coop asbl.

With the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles — Service du Cirque, des Arts Forains et de la Rue, Loterie Nationale, Wallonie Bruxelles International (WBI), Bourse du CAPT, Commission Communautaire Française, Shelterprod, Taxshelter.be, ING, and the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government.

With help from Escale du Nord — Centre Culturel d’Anderlecht, Centre de la Marionnette de Tournai, La Roseraie, Latitude 50 — Pôle des Arts du Cirque et de la Rue, Espace Catastrophe, Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, Maison de la Culture Famenne-Ardennes, Centre Culturel d’Eupen, La Vénerie, Le Centre Culturel de Braine-l’Alleud, Le Royal Festival de Spa, Le Théâtre Marni, L’Escaut, Bronks, AD LIB Diffusion, AD LIB Production: creative residencies at the Libitum, the LookIN’out, and Festival XS.

Dimanche is on a Canadian tour thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

The show is sold out? Try your luck at the door! Arrive early. If reserved tickets become available at the last minute, we’ll be happy to put them back for sale.