2010-2011 SEASON LINEUP AT THÉÂTRE LA SEIZIÈME!

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On Théâtre la Seizième's mainstage in 2010-2011, three superb works by multi award-winning contemporary Canadian playwrights Jean-Rock Gaudreault, Carole Fréchette and George F. Walker (translated by Maryse Warda). From warm and thoughtful for our first production through breath-taking and poetic for the second and ending with provoking satire for our third, all our plays this season are sure to provide audiences with an unforgettable experience...

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MAINSTAGE SEASON

October 20 – 23, 2010 | Une maison face au nord by Jean-Rock Gaudreault - IN FRENCH ONLY. Coproducers: Théâtre français de Toronto, Théâtre La Rubrique (Jonquière) and Théâtre du Tandem (Rouyn-Noranda)

A warm and deeply human family story blended with larger societal issues, this comedy of manners sees Henri witnessing the life and legacy that he created and the country of his dreams inexorably losing their sense and future.

Eye Weekly wrote of the play that it “is destined to become a classic of Canadian drama. It (…) accomplishes that magic trick of so many great plays of transforming the specific into the universal, the ordinary into the extraordinary. On the surface the play is a bittersweet comedy about a couple growing old together in Chicoutimi, while in fact it is play about the state of the province of Quebec in particular, the state of Canada in general and more (…). It helps that the cast and direction are flawless. Mignault is simply wonderful. (…)The setting may be rural Quebec, but the implications of Gaudreault’s play are universal and deserve the widest possible audience.”

Voted one of the top 10 plays of the past decade, Toronto Eye Weekly

Directed by Jacinthe Potvin. Featuring Marcelo Arroyo, Éric Chalifour, Louisette Dussault, A.-J.Henderson, Guy Mignault and Sara Simard.

February 23-26, 2011 | La peau d’Élisa by Carole Fréchette - Producer : L’UniThéâtre (Edmonton)

A woman tells delicate tales of love. She insists on the minute and most intimate details: the beating heart, the sweaty palms, and the skin that shivers to the touch. She speaks feverishly as though she is in danger, as though her heart, her life, her skin depend on it. Little by little, through her portraits, she reveals what it is that drives her to tell stories and lets us in on the strange secret that a young man shared with her one day, in a coffee shop.

Carol Fréchette was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for this play.

“This short play has a bittersweet irony, a freshness mixed with despair that expresses to a tee the drama of this woman suddenly assailed by the fear of growing old." Le Devoir.

Directed by Daniel Cournoyer. With Steve Jodoin.

April 5-16, 2011 | L’Enfant-problème (Problem Child) by George F. Walker, translated by Maryse Warda.

IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES!

Producer: Théâtre la Seizième

L’Enfant-problème ( Problem Child) is part of the Suburban Motel six-part cycle of plays, with every play set in the same dingy motel room. With a strong social focus, well served by a deceptively playful, deeply sarcastic and sometimes grotesque tone, the play hovers between crushing realism and surrealist absurdism.

L’Enfant-problème is about a broke and drug-addicted young couple who have lost their daughter to a foster family. They are waiting in the motel room, full of hope, to hear their social worker declare them fit to take their daughter home. The desperate parents have to wait, which they are not willing to do.

Winner of the 2009 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award, George F. Walker received a Chalmers Award for this play.

“Outstanding script… brilliant stuff!” –Irish Times

“No other living playwright pushes the boundaries of comedy as far, with often stunning results”- Chicago Sun Times

Directed by Craig Holzschuh. With Émilie Leclerc, Yuri Kis and Joey Lespérance and one actress.

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Also in 2010-2011, Théâtre la Seizième’s young audience and teenager seasons: two shows touring francophone and immersion schools throughout BC in the spring of 2011! Edmonton-based L’UniThéâtre’s production of La Chaise perdue by Louis-Dominique Lavigne and Luc LeBlanc will tour BC’s primary schools from April 4 to May 6, 2011.

Also on tour in BC’s secondary schools from February 7 to March 4, 2011, Théâtre la Seizième’s production of L’Hypocrite by Michael Gauthier.

About Théâtre la Seizième. Founded in 1974, Théâtre la Seizième is the only French language, professional theatre company in BC. Every year, Théâtre la Seizième presents a mainstage season, a young audiences season, a series of drama workshops and a training and dramaturgical development program for local artists. By continuing to produce, present and commission engaging Canadian works, Théâtre la Seizième is a dynamic leader in Western Canadians’ cultural and artistic life. Over the years, the company has positioned itself as a major creation and presentation centre on the national cultural landscape.

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