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Straight Jacket Winter is peppered with humourous moments that draw the audience in. The inventive yet simple scenography, made up of everyday items, brings about a delicate poetry to the piece, all while representing the couple’s daily life.

– Le Devoir

Hoping to start a new life on the West Coast, a couple travels 5000 km from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter. As they attempt to integrate their adopted city, Esther and Gilles find themselves quickly confronted with the language barrier, and their inability to create a social network. Bit by bit, they retreat, inwardly, shielding themselves from the rain and the outside world, the four walls of their apartment becoming the boundaries of a universe understandable only to them. But for how long can two people who love each other live so marginally?

Using a series of tableaux where the real, the fictitious, everyday objects and literary materials collide, Straight Jacket Winter draws us in, delicately, uncovering the heart of two interior lives.