Théâtre Centaur453, St-François-Xavier
Montréal, Québec, H2Y 2T1
Téléphone : 514-288-1229
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Historique du théâtre
À l'affiche cette saison, 2009-2010
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In Piazza San Domenico
World Premiere
Texte de Steve Galluccio
Mise en scène de Roy Surette
From the author of Mambo Italiano comes a light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining comedy about love, lust and misunderstandings, inspired by Feydeau, Goldini and Sophia Loren. It’s a burning hot August in Naples, 1952 – “earthquake weather” and the citizens of Piazza San Domenico are all stirred up when Carmelina Benevento suddenly faints upon hearing some bad news about her fiancé, Guido.
A series of conspicuous sightings between people provoke gossip. Misinterpretations ensue as the players contrive their own schemes and desperately try to keep face. But love and earth tremors have a way of setting things straight.
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Du 3 novembre au 6 décembre 2009
Death and the Maiden
Texte de Ariel Dorfman
Mise en scène de Gordon McCall
In this emotionally charged 20th century classic thriller, Paulina Escobar, a former political prisoner, is forced to confront demons from her past after her husband, Gerardo, gets a flat tire and is driven home by their distant neighbour, Dr. Miranda. Convinced that Miranda was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her while blindfolded, she takes him captive in order to extract a confession. Meanwhile her husband, a lawyer, is torn between his wife, with her sombre memory and psychological repressions, and the law. As the married couple seek out the truth about the clouded past, tension mounts to a startling conclusion.
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
Winner of London Time Out Award for Best Play of 1991
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Du 2 février au 7 mars 2010
Michel & ti-Jean
Texte de George Rideout
Mise en scène de Sarah Garton Stanley
In 1969, 27-year-old Michel Tremblay, having just published Les Belles Soeurs, sets out to meet his favourite writer, the “king of the Beatniks”; Jack Kerouac, at a bar in St. Petersburg, Florida. Despite an initial reticence on Kerouac’s part, the two prolific writers hit it off and share their thoughts on the art of writing, inspirations, sports, music, religion and the most innate quality they share: their Quebecois heritage. Though fictitious, Michel & ti-Jean is an evocative and spirited glimpse into the poetic and philosophical world of North American literature.
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Du 2 au 28 mars 2010
The Comedy of Errors
Texte de William Shakespeare
Mise en scène de Peter Hinton
Inspired by Montreal's crazed summer festival season, this modern look at one of Shakespeare's earliest and most romantic comedies, tells the story of a family divided by business and brought together again by love. Two sets of identical twins, after 33 years apart, find themselves in the bustling city of Ephesus, where deals are made and fortune lurks behind every corner. Mistaken identities, infidelity, wrongful beatings and even demonic possession all fly in the face of a family utterly lost, who, in this comedy of accidents, gain a richer understanding of who they truly are.
A co-production with the National Arts Centre
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Du 30 mars au 2 mai 2010
The Madonna Painter, or The Birth of a Painting
English-Language Premiere
Texte de Michel Marc Bouchard
Traduction de Linda Gaboriau
Mise en scène de Roy Surette
In 1918 a handsome young priest settles in a village in Lac Saint-Jean. Determined to inspire the faith he believes will protect the town from the onset of the Spanish flu, he commissions a visiting Italian painter by the name of Alessandro to create a fresco depicting the Blessed Virgin. With the financial backing of a misanthropic doctor, he sets out to recruit a model from among the village women, all of whom are deeply fixed in their own medieval-like mythologies and martyr and saint roles. Just when the perfect model has been picked the plan takes a turn for the worst. Set against a rich imagistic backdrop of iconography, sex and blood, this dark and humorous fable explores the collision of ecstasies, secrets and lies in the face of an impending epidemic.
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Du 4 mai au 6 juin 2010
Trudeau Stories
Texte et interprétation de Brooke Johnson
Mise en scène de Allyson McMackon
In 1985, while she was a student at the National Theatre School, Brooke Johnson became friends with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It had been a year-and-a-half since his walk in the snow, and while he was no longer doing pirouettes behind the Queen, he was sometimes hanging around with Brooke, sliding down ice-covered staircases on Mount Royal. This personal insight into the man and the times, as seen through the eyes of a passionate artist, is not to be missed. Vivid and charming, poignant and very funny, Trudeau Stories is about friendship and loss and about who we think we are.
Une production A Long Black Car