https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/15957
An intense and spellbinding Chekhovian psychological drama set in a forest, about an isolated community of savage women and child–men, all burning with the desire to shake things up. A fertile exploration of the storms and upheavals of life. By a lake deep in the forest, eight people struggle to find meaning in their suffocating lives: Élie, Emma, Thomas, Louise, Adèle, Christian, Léon, Martin. As an antidote to boredom and a cry for help, they surrender to...
Azrieli Studio,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
“Marie Renée Bourget Harvey’s set is a marvel. We are literally at the edge of a lake: we hear the waves lapping and rustling, and we experience that comforting sense of infinity that you sometimes get sitting on the shore, just watching the world go by.” Marie-Claire Girard, Le Huffington Post
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- ≈ 1 hour and 45 minutes · No intermission
An intense and spellbinding Chekhovian psychological drama set in a forest, about an isolated community of savage women and child–men, all burning with the desire to shake things up. A fertile exploration of the storms and upheavals of life.
By a lake deep in the forest, eight people struggle to find meaning in their suffocating lives: Élie, Emma, Thomas, Louise, Adèle, Christian, Léon, Martin. As an antidote to boredom and a cry for help, they surrender to Steve Gagnon’s raw, immediate dialogue to express a rage that seems limitless. On an incredible watery set, this intrigue of desperation unfolds like a choral saga, directed by the playwright and performed by a cast of wholly committed actors.
- Written and directed by Steve Gagnon
- With Marie-Josée Bastien, Frédérick Bouffard, Véronique Côté, Steve Gagnon, Frédéric Lemay, Guillaume Perreault, Pascale Renaud-Hébert and Claudiane Ruelland
- Assistant director Adèle Saint-Amand
- Production Director Adèle Saint-Amand and Maude St-Pierre
- Sets and props Marie-Renée Bourget Harvey
- Lighting Martin Sirois
- Music Uberko
- Costumes Jennifer Tremblay
- Stage manager Amélie-Claude Riopel
- Technical director Pierre Gagné and Émilie Potvin
- Produced by Théâtre Jésus, Shakespeare et Caroline
