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Théâtre Centaur453, St-François-Xavier
Montréal, Québec, H2Y 2T1
Téléphone : 514-288-1229
Fax : 514-288-8575
Billetterie : 514-288-3161
www.centaurtheatre.com
Historique du théâtre
À l'affiche cette saison, 2011-2012
(pour les autres saisons, voir les Archives -
les détails de la saison peuvent changer sans préavis)
The Saturday Morning Children’s Series
On select Saturday mornings throughout the season, young children and their families enjoy affordable and engaging live performances by some of Montreal’s best talent for kids.
Du 4 octobre au 6 novembre 2011
True Nature
By Colleen Curran
Directed by Amanda Kellock
Mary Anning’s love of discovery may have led to the heart of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
There are romantic, comic and heart-breaking consequences when lightning strikes a circle of midlife friends.
True Nature is an amusing and beautiful interweaving of sciences with social class, paralleling the lives of two women, a dedicated contemporary academic and her hero, the extraordinary but silenced palaeontologist, Mary Anning.
Montreal award-winning playwright, Colleen Curran effortlessly entertains while unfolding the worlds of two women from different centuries whose friendships and loves are similarly unearthed from one seaside’s fossilized past.
Du 8 novembre au 4 décembre 2011
God of Carnage
By Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Roy Surette
But what happens when the parents are using their words? A children’s playground brawl, the subsequent dental injury and necessary cosmetic reparation will be discussed in a most civil manner by all four sophisticated urban professional parents at the victim’s home. Inevitably, espressos turn to cocktails, ideas are shared and fought over like toys, and the elegant décor cannot disguise the degeneration of the grown-ups’ rendez-vous.
Du 8 au 17 décembre 2011
Urban Tales
Presented with Théâtre Urbi et Orbi
Du 3 au 14 janvier 2012
14th Annual Wildside Theatre Festival
Du 31 janvier au 4 mars 2012
World Premiere
In Absentia
By Morris Panych
Directed by Roy Surette
It is as if the rigid frozen winter never thawed for the year since hearing of her husband’s abduction while on a business trip to Columbia. Colette, herself, has remained emotionally motionless, for four seasons, isolated in their country cottage, waiting for word, or perhaps of even more significance to Colette, a connection. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake – a sign? She emerges to give him her husband’s parka – strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. Tom, who has disappeared but still speaks to her.
Brought to light by Panych’s illustrious sense of humour and deep empathy for his characters, In Absentia is both a riveting mystery and moving story of vanished love.
Morris Panych is a two-time winner of the Governor General Award for Drama.
Du 6 mars au 1er avril 2012
The Game of Love and Chance
By Marivaux
Directed by Matthew Jocelyn
Translated by Nicolas Billon
With wit, and clever farce, classic French master de Marivaux invites us into a timeless world of romance by asking the universal questions that lovers have always faced.
A young but strong-willed noble woman warily prepares for the imminent meeting with her betrothed. Inexperienced, but already skeptical of love and marriage, she disguises herself so that she may observe the young man’s true personality. Little does she know that he also sets out to employ the same deception.
Love-duets abound while ruses are cleverly played out in fine parlours and dark corridors. When guises are confessed will love triumph or expire? With its beautiful prose and elaborate professions from the heart, audiences will surely be seduced by this irresistible romantic comedy!
Co production with Canadian Stage
Du 27 mars au 29 avril 2012
World Premiere
Intimate Apparel
By Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage
Directed by Micheline Chevrier
Lyrically told and set in 1905 to a beautiful ragtime soundtrack, Intimate Apparel is a tribute to the resilience and passion of the female spirit.
Surrounded by exquisitely coloured silks, lace and satins, Esther, a talented and hardworking African-American seamstress has spent many years creating elegant lingerie always destined for others - New York society ladies and prostitutes alike.
Consoled by her private dream represented by the savings hidden in the multi-coloured bed quilt laid out in her boarding house room, the simplicity of her hard-earned life is altered when an unexpected fortune arrives with the opportunity to marry.
Du 8 mai au 3 juin 2012
2009-2010 MECCA Award winner
Best Production / Best Direction
Haunted Hillbilly
Adapted by Graham Cuthbertson
from Derek McCormack’s novel, ‘The Haunted Hillbilly’
Directed by Andrew Shaver
Music by Matthew Barber & Graham Cuthbertson
Hyram Woodside, a naïve yet charismatic country music star and his bloodsucking couturier named Nudie are both on the rise to stardom, and are not above using one another to get there.
Hyram’s life spins out of control when he tries to free himself from Nudie’s grasp in a frantic attempt to seek out his own happiness. Compelled by his irrepressible jealousy, Nudie wages a ruthless battle against Hyram and all the ill-fated people around him.
Haunted Hillbilly is a carnival romp complete with foot-stomping country music and seductive vampires caught up in a Rocky Horror Picture Show hoedown.
A SideMart Theatrical Grocery production