Six Acadian writers send letters — raising questions about power, its origins and its legitimacy — to different recipients. Xenia Gould and Caroline Bélisle seize them, as a gesture of empowerment, to orchestrate a wacky evening that looks like a recital and a diverted coronation in order to have fun questioning the mechanisms of power.

Uncrowned

Théâtre Périscope

The Day Everything Went Wrong tells the true and incredible misadventure experienced by the Théâtre Sortie de Secours, in times of pandemic, when the company had undertaken – with the Catalan author Joan Yago – a show on climate denial. On the menu, the true story of a creative project that literally went wrong, with, in the background, a tragicomic management of toilets and reflux in the rehearsal room. Sensitive souls and climate skeptics could feel some side effects! 😉

The day everything went wrong

Camille was 22 when she moved to Montreal. Her grandmother Pauline was 92 when she entered a CHSLD. Each experienced an uprooting, a loss of bearings. Driven by an intuition, Camille recorded her visits and collected Pauline's words. For nearly four years, the two women tamed the inevitable together, to the rhythm of the days, of forgetfulness, of the crumbling of time and of daily reunions.
After a poignant podcast entitled Quelque'une d'immortelle , Camille Paré-Poirier adapted for the stage these exchanges between two people so deeply united, the starting point of a dialogue between generations.

I will come less often

One morning, while her husband and two-year-old child are still asleep, Kat leaves her house and heads to Parliament Square with a can of petrol, a lighter and a heroic determination to change the world.

Parliament Square

With self-mockery and insolence, Elle dissects the stages of the quarter-life crisis. But the show shifts towards an immodest testimony. In this survival guide that does not keep its promises, Elle tries to define herself in search of authenticity.

Adapted to the stage of the author's poetry collection, this creation offers an uncompromising speech, where poetry is indicative of a sincere way of being in the world. The personal journey is experienced like a rock show, making the existential crisis a founding and resolutely fertile experience.

The Quarterlife Crisis • Transforming Ruins into Eyeshadow

H+ is an auto-science fiction piece that addresses the subject of transhumanism and, through performance and exhaustion, draws a common thread between productivity, death and all the extremes that lie between these two subjects.

When she inherits a fake work of art, Blanche Gionet-Lavigne finds herself on the trail of a Quebec forger who defrauded her family.

This investigation into the fake painting will lead her to meet several people, including former Sûreté du Québec inspector Alain Lacoursière, nicknamed "the Columbo of art in Quebec." But by dint of trying to find meaning in the fraud committed by the forger, Blanche will come to question the value of her own artistic approach.

Forger

Faced with the perpetuation of gender-based violence in the world of sport, the struggles of female athletes are now intertwined with those of other women. In turn Caryatids, soccer players, TV presenters, ordinary women or warriors, six performers focus on fragments of history to understand the links that are woven between the culture of sports as a spectacle and rape culture. In a performative relay game, Sportriarcat explores the evolution of the #MeToo movement towards a liberation of the body and the image. A sensitive, explosive and humorous work that invites the public to take a new look at our sports and media institutions.

Théâtre Périscope

Jan 14 - Feb 1, 2025

Parliament Square

Feb 11 - Mar 1, 2025

The Quarterlife Crisis • Transforming Ruins into Eyeshadow

Feb 25 - Mar 1, 2025

H+

11 - 29 Mar, 2025

Forger

6 - 17 May, 2025

Sportriarchate

19 - 30 Nov, 2024

Uncrowned

Oct 22 - Nov 9, 2024

The day everything went wrong

Théâtre Périscope