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Théâtre la Seizième announces its 2010-2011 season lineup! On the mainstage this upcoming season, 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… Subscribe now: call 604 736 2616 today and save! 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.
MAINSTAGE SEASONOctober 20 – 23, 2010 | Une maison face au nord by Jean-Rock Gaudreault
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.
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.
April 5-16, 2011 | L’Enfant-problème 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.
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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.
La chaise perdue tells the uplifting story of twelve-year-old Mathieu whose grandfather just passed away. Hoping to forget about him, upset and angry, Mathieu tries to get rid of the chair his granddad gave him. Before he even does so, the chair transports him into a world of fantasy where he meets all kinds of strange and extraordinary characters who force him to fight a dragon but also to confront his own feelings and memories and help him cope with them.
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.
The story of two high school best friends, Chuck and Eric who spend all of their free time together until Hélène becomes Eric’s girlfriend. Feeling left out, Chuck invents all kinds of schemes to try and control the situation. He reveals himself to be a first-class manipulator but perhaps he’s not the only one playing games. A perceptive, engaging story about friendship and relationships between teenagers.
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