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Une lune entre deux maisons

Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2019

Azrieli Studio 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

lune-2-francois-xavier-gaudreault — © François Xavier Gaudreault

lune-3-francois-xavier-gaudreaul — © François Xavier Gaudreault

lune-3-francois-xavier-gaudreault — © François Xavier Gaudreault

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Approx. 40 minutes

Performance options	Start time	Language	Availability
Wednesday, October 30, 2019	9:30 am	French	sold out
Wednesday, October 30, 2019	11:00 am	French	Seats available
Thursday, October 31, 2019	9:30 am	French	Seats available
Friday, November 1, 2019	9:30 am	French	sold out

Suggested for 3-6 years old

Like night and day

The space between Plume’s house and Taciturne’s house is a chasm. A whole moon can fit into it! With its playground-like set and its moving performances, this show about overcoming our fear of the unfamiliar accurately measures the internal temperature of a child’s heart.

There’s Plume, funny, talkative, and, yes ... maybe a little scattered! Next door there’s Taciturne, for whom music is an important refuge, but who is quite deserving of her rather gloomy name. What do they have in common? An enemy: the night! From the union of their opposing forces comes a strong defence against the black thing that swallows the sun every evening.

In this celebration of friendship, director Marie-Eve Huot brings fresh new colour to this classic story by Suzanne Lebeau. Because childhood hasn’t aged a bit!

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This event ended on: Nov 3, 2019

Adults & chaperones

1 Free adult per 15 students

Free admittance for special needs assistants

$ (HST included) for additional chaperons At the discretion of the National Arts Centre

Payment deadlines

3 weeks before the performance

Full payment is required by the payment deadline. The NAC reserves the right to cancel any orders submitted but not paid for by the payment deadline.

Seating

There are no reserved seats for NAC student matinee performances.

Instead of tickets you will receive a letter of admission and groups will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis at the performance.

The letter of admission will be issued upon receipt of full payment.

If you have any questions, please contact us at education@nac-cna.ca

Artists

Written by Suzanne Lebeau

Written by Suzanne Lebeau

Child’s-Eye Playwright

They say that every season, a play by Suzanne Lebeau is presented somewhere in the world. This great playwright originally wanted to be an actress; but in 1975, with Gervais Gaudreault, she co-founded Le Carrousel young people’s theatre and launched her prolific writing career—more than 24 plays for young audiences, translated into more than two dozen languages! Of special interest is Une lune entre deux maisons (A Moon Between Two Houses, 1979), the first Canadian play written especially for young children. Suzanne Lebeau’s incisive pen dares to tackle difficult subjects, but always with the necessary sensitivity to appeal to the heart of a child.

Auteure à hauteur d’enfant

On dit que chaque saison, dans le monde, une pièce de Suzanne Lebeau est montée. Cette grande dramaturge se destinait pourtant au départ au métier d’actrice. Puis en 1975, elle fonde avec Gervais Gaudreault la compagnie de théâtre Le Carrousel, et c’est le début d’une prolifique carrière : plus de vingt-quatre textes jeunesse traduits dans plus d’une vingtaine de langues ! D’ailleurs, Une lune entre deux maisons (1979) fait histoire, puisque c’est la première pièce canadienne écrite spécialement pour la petite enfance. La plume affûtée de Suzanne Lebeau ose les sujets difficiles, mais avec la sensibilité nécessaire pour interpeller l’âme des enfants.

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actor Emilie Dionne

actor Emilie Dionne

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actor Catherine Leblond

actor Catherine Leblond

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Theatre company le Carrousel

Theatre company le Carrousel

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Written by Suzanne Lebeau
Directed by Marie-Eve Huot
With Emilie Dionne and Catherine Leblond
Assistant director Marie-Claude D’Orazio
Sets Patrice Charbonneau-Brunelle
Lighting Dominique Gagnon
Sound Diane Labrosse
Video design ATOMIC3 and Lionel Arnould
Costumes Cynthia Saint-Gelais
Hair and makeup Sylvie Rolland Provost
Production manager Dominique Gagnon
Technical director Nicolas Fortin
Produced by Le Carrousel, compagnie de théâtre

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