Dive into the compelling world of Théâtre Périscope, where five diverse plays unravel societal themes through powerful performances. From the gripping passions of 'Parliament Square,' to the transformative journey in 'The Quarterlife Crisis,' these productions promise to engage audiences in profound explorations of identity, culture, and the human experience. Join us as we explore how each play uniquely reflects on contemporary issues, offering a stage for conversation and reflection.

Theatre at Théâtre Périscope: A Deep Dive into Societal Narratives

The Théâtre Périscope invites audiences to embark on an enthralling journey with its upcoming performances that promise to spark conversations on identity, ethics, and societal norms. Featuring four diverse plays: 'The Quarterlife Crisis,' 'H+,' 'Forger,' and 'Sportriarchate,' each production delves into the depths of human experiences. From existential introspection to societal critique, these plays offer a reflective mirror to our world, urging us to question and redefine our perceptions. Join us as we explore these thought-provoking performances that promise to reshape your understanding of art and life.

Exploring Humanity: Navigating Identity, Ethics, and Society Through Theater

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.

Sportriarchate

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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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Théâtre Périscope

6 - 17 May, 2025

Sportriarchate

11 - 29 Mar, 2025

Forger

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