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Patrick Conan performs a short excerpt from his show La Main et le sac (The Hand and the Bag) that premiered in 2015, a veritable odyssey where the audience will not be surprised to bump into heroes from some of Garin Trousseboeuf’s twenty productions since 1987: Petit Poucet, Hamlet, Cosette, even Henri, Josette’s widower (she […]

Alma returns to the Magdalen Islands for the holidays. Little kitty Philomène’s delicate whiskers aren’t the only ones expecting her. There’s Aunt Fabie and Uncle Harry’s hen Olga, with her mood swings, as well as others.  A gust of wind still blows within Alma’s heart; a storm of memories left upon the sand… and then there are the […]

Few words Russian with French surtitles The Thursday, March 9 performance will be followed by a brief discussion with the artists. Far Away is a superb and moving adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans and of Six Swans by the Brothers Grimm, intended for adult audiences. An evil queen casts a spell on […]

PREVIEW Nine-year-old Mia and her trusted sidekick secretly get ready to go off and explore the world. With their hockey helmet and flashlights in hand, a loaded back pack and a stuffed rabbit, they train as best they can, teaching themselves not to miss their loved ones and to sleep without being afraid of the […]

A Grand Lady invites us to join the game of creation… Is she a magician, a goddess, or both? From darkness and emptiness, she conjures up a colourful world inhabited by creatures that must learn to live together: a fragrant rose bush and a stinky skunk; a solitary bear and a lovelorn squirrel; birds and […]

“Can we knit a scarf from silence and keep it for those freezing cold days? Is there such a thing as love that never fades? If we follow our hearts, where do our bodies go?” A scrap yard, a desperately lonely robot, a laboratory where sounds are created before our ears and a passing train […]

Few words Slovenian, with simultaneous French translation One day, Duck turns around to find Death standing behind her. As the two get to know each other, they begin discussing the meaning of life and relax into a frank and respectful camaraderie. Combining shadow theatre and live acting, this adaptation of the wonderful picture book by […]

Beaver Dream is a wacky tale about a beaver family and a human family living in the middle of the forest in Québec. Both families are going through the same nightmare: commercial development is threatening their little piece of heaven. Every summer a never-ending struggle begins anew between construction and destruction, between their families and […]

Le Parapluie (The Umbrella) is an uplifting story of the relationship between an umbrella and its owner. Through this exquisite tale of love, loyalty and devotion, we learn that while someone might be struggling, flawed, or even broken, they still have value and deserve to be loved. During a storm, our heroes suffer damage—but love […]

ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATION AT 22H! Without words Schweinehund is inspired by the true story of Pierre Seel, a Frenchman who was deported to a concentration camp for homosexuality in 1941. Seel survived this ordeal and later described the atrocities to which he had been subjected: beatings, torture, hunger and humiliation. Snapshots of a brutal past are […]