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Adult audience, 12 years + Premiere    Presented by   What remains of a story that no one has ever told? VIVA! is the moving story of a Spanish family torn apart by civil war and the Franco dictatorship. On stage, a nondescript desk. In its drawers, everyday objects—chalk, adhesive tape, stapler, pencil sharpener—become the […]

Adult audience, 12 years +   Who is really there? In La vraie fausse conférence (The Real Fake Conference) everything is up for grabs: the venue, the audience’s expectations, Kantor’s “historic” chair, Peter Brook’s “empty” space, the table, the story itself. . . Every detail has the potential to shift, to be transformed, and to surprise. Appearances, […]

Young audience, 10 years +   What if, in order not to forget who we are, all we had to do was. . . play? Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Une Traversée tells the story of a young girl who transforms the ruins of her home into an extraordinary playground. Along with […]

Premiere All audiences, 12 years +    Presented by   Whom can you confide in when your heavy heart is too much to bear? Absence des extraterrestres tells the story of an 8-year-old boy caught up in the turmoil of his parents’ separation, in the mid-1970s, against a counterculture backdrop, including Christ-like figures, esotericism, and […]

Adult audience, 14 years +    Presented by   Do you really trust what your eyes are telling you? In Réalités parallèles (Parallel Realities), a simple pattern in a hotel carpet becomes a hypnotic abyss. A tear in a spaceship wall opens a door to the inconceivable. An airplane overhead foreshadows the worst. . . but pianos […]

All audiences, 7 years +   Presented by   What if your emotions could materialize before your very eyes? Incarnations transitoires invites young and old alike to enjoy a playful and poetic experience where moods materialize, move, change. . . and sometimes even surprise us! Amazing creatures emerge from simple materials—paper, cardboard, plastic, fabric. They come to […]

Adult audience, 12 years + Premiere   Presented in collaboration with     What if a whale appeared out of nowhere, in the middle of the city? In May 2020, Montrealers witnessed an unlikely and magical spectacle on the St. Lawrence River. Between the landmark Clock Tower and the Grande Roue de Montréal Ferris wheel, a whale […]

All audiences, 4 years +   Presented as part of the Lundis culturels series at   What if pieces of wood came to life? In WOODS, a green leaf growing on a dead branch opens the door to an imaginary world inhabited by strange creatures, some hostile, some downright comical. The fruit of the imagination […]