Ottawa, 3 septembEr 2013 – Are you feeling adrift? Adrift in the workaday world, at sea as regards relations with others? Ariane is a pleasant young woman who gives voice to her slipping and sliding in a torrent of words as she describes a life that is fraying at the seams. She is a vessel that is taking on water, plunging headlong toward an unpredictable, savage state. Between her employer’s cupcakes and her life as a single girl in the city, Ariane loses her bearings and withdraws into her shell, into implosion.

 

An emerging young artist from the Gatineau region and recipient of the Fondation pour l’avancement du théâtre francophone au Canada award in 2011, Magali Lemèle, assisted by her co-director Louise Naubert, directs and performs a fascinating script by Marie-Claude Verdier, one that strips bare the mechanics of the everyday. Accompanied onstage by a musician who underscores the monologue with rhythmic punctuation, Magali Lemèle presents this new theatre piece, a work that constantly shifts between distress and self-deprecation.

 

Written by: Marie-Claude Verdier // Directed and performed by: Magali Lemèle //

Co-directed by: Louise Naubert // Soundscape design and performance: Jean-Sébastien Dallaire.

 

Created by Magali Lemèle and co-produced with the NAC’s Théâtre français. Presented by Zones Théâtrales and the Théâtre français of the NAC, in association with the City of Gatineau’s Service des arts, de la culture et des lettres.

 

Je n’y suis plus is presented in association with the Zones Théâtrales biennial, a showcase and a meeting point for professional theatre from French-speaking communities across Canada and from various regions of Quebec. For more information about the Zones Théâtrales program, visit zonestheatrales.ca.