À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou
Salle Albert-Rousseau
Theater — For ten years now, Manon Brassard has lived holed up in her home, unable to escape the horrible drama that struck her family. Her sister Carmen may try to shake her, but the young woman locks herself into a morbid vision of the past and religion. After all, it was within these very walls that her parents, Léopold and Marie-Louise, endured an unhappy marriage, marked by disappointment and the inability to name their desires and aspirations. Together, yet so far apart, the Brassards give a heartbreaking meaning to the expression "family cell." While Les Belles-Sœurs remains his best-known play, À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou is undoubtedly one of Michel Tremblay's great dramatic masterpieces. In this ghostly, breathtakingly musical chamber piece, the ravages of the obscurantism of an era and the weight of trauma constitute the sad legacy of one generation to another… unless a way out is possible? Director Henri Chassé returns to Tremblay's theater four years after Le Vrai Monde?, where he reunites the powerhouse performers Madeleine Péloquin and Michel Charette as a cursed couple, while Catherine Paquin-Béchard and Rose-Anne Déry don the starkly contrasting costumes of Manon and Carmen.
Art / Gallery
From 69.00 CAD