For more than 40 years, Espace Go was like Ginette Noiseux’s second home. In a few months, the current artistic director is preparing to pass the torch to Edith Patenaude. But before, she imagined her farewell season with a program that fills her with pride.
“It’s really a season where imaginations intersect and which is very rooted in today’s issues,” says Ginette Noiseux. The shows address issues of gender and identity. I am very proud to bequeath this to the younger generation. »
“The next season is neither nostalgic nor backward-looking,” continues Ginette Noiseux. She is exactly where I have taken Go over the past few years. Faithful to the theater approach, there will also be a mix of disciplines, because I like when the theater feeds on all the performing arts. We are really going to travel from one universe to another, from one fragment of humanity to another. »
The season also opens with the words of this British author with rope. stiff, a play translated by Fanny Britt and directed by Alexia Bürger. Planted in a future that could be tomorrow, the play tells the heartbreak of a black woman, victim of a violent crime, who must choose the sentence to inflict on her attacker. Stephie Mazunya, Patrice Dubois and Eve Landry will share the stage.
Theatrical forms also promise to be very varied this season. After the trio of string performers. stiff, the public is invited to a solo entitled Tremblements, carried by Debbie Lynch-White. Toronto playwright Christopher Morris is behind this play about the impact of humanitarian work in Africa, not only on those who volunteer, but also those whom they have come to help. Edith Patenaude will sign with Tremblements her first staging for the theater she will direct. From November 14 to December 2.
In January, the show Interior Affairs will bring together three accomplices in life and on stage: Sophie Cadieux, Frannie Holder and Mélanie Demers. Combining theatre, music and dance, this production aims to highlight “the feeling of emptiness common to all human beings, regardless of gender, origin, sexual orientation, condition. » From January 16 to February 11.
Another multidisciplinary project will follow, this time bringing together 13 performers from the worlds of dance, theater and music, led by choreographer Wynn Holmes. Its title: Mount Analogue. The text signed by Clara Prévost is inspired by an unfinished adventure novel by René Daumal, who died in 1944.
The Ubu theater by directors Stéphanie Jasmin and Denis Marleau will take the stage in April with the show Un coeur habité de mille voix, inspired by the latest novel by Marie-Claire Blais published during her lifetime. Kevin Lambert will handle the theatrical adaptation. On stage, an all-star cast: Élisabeth Chouvalidzé, Pascale Devrillon, Nadine Jean, Louise Laprade, Sylvie Léonard, Jean Marchand and Christiane Pasquier. April 2-28.
Artist in residence at Espace Go, Émilie Monnet will close this season (and her residency) with the show Nigamon/Tunai, developed with an indigenous Colombian Amazonian artist, Waira Nina. A poetic manifesto that will intertwine immersive performance and audio documentary at the heart of Indigenous knowledge and voices. Starting May 14.
