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Midsummer, a play with songs
Pierre-Luc Brillant and Isabelle Blais. Photo : Suzanne O’Neill
From April 28 to May 2, 2015, Théâtre la Seizième is presenting Midsummer (a play with songs), at Studio 16 in Vancouver. Produced by the Théâtre de la Manufacture (Montreal), this unconventional musical will be presented with English surtitles on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Helena is a lawyer with a penchant for expensive wines and the husband of another woman. She waits in vain for her lover on a summer Friday night. At the other end of the bar, Bob, an unassuming man, is waiting to be given the keys to a stolen car while reading Dostoevsky. She is way out of his league; he is not her type at all. Nothing to push them into each other’s embrace. But that is where they will end up on this night! So begins 48 hours of adventures throughout Edinburgh with car chases, Japanese bondage, a marriage that goes wrong, but also, and mostly, a coming together, their coming together, which will change the course of their lives.
| « With its gently poignant pop songs and honest humour, it’s rough, ready — but still romantic. » – The Globe and Mail |
With Midsummer, David Greig makes us forget the preconceived notions we might have about love and has fun deconstructing the clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies. Through the characters we meet in the play, he explores issues of identity, family descent, commitment, self-fulfilment, freedom and mid-thirties crises. Midsummer thumbs its nose at the limits that we impose on ourselves.
It was in collaboration with the musician and lyricist Gordon McIntyre that David Greig, who also wrote the play Yellow Moon, created Midsummer. The runaway hit of the 2008 Edinburgh Festival, the play was presented for the first time in French to sold out audiences at the Théâtre La Licorne in the spring of 2012.
Tickets are available now via brownpapertickets.ca or at 604.736.2616.
