Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Navet Confit (Turnip Confit) is a phlegmatic boy-vampire who likes to surprise, whisking us off to a surreal world where anything can happen. He has fun reinterpreting himself (an open book!), readings seasoned with abstract visuals to make sure everyone stays confused. His guest is novelist, short story writer and journalist Marie Hélène Poitras.

Inaugurated last year with two all-girl shows, Dans la Forêt is back for a new deep-woods adventure, this time with guys. Some very special guys, each with his own particular style. And frankly, bringing these four creatures together for such an unlikely encounter is something of a miracle given the context (a performance hall, an audience). Poetry, straight talk, silence, severity. Theirs, the traps and secrets of the forest; theirs, the risk and the danger. Ours, just to listen. An intimate, mysterious show at the redesigned Sala Rossa. With poetic projections by two new partners, Joseph Lefèvre and Martine Koutnouyan, and the ever faithful Michel F Côté to instill some forest spirit.

One hour, no intermission, no bar service. Because in the forest, poetry is a murmur and a rustle.

André Éric Létourneau (Benjamin Muon) presents his Khédive et Mamelouk, en un seul sur son patron, a radiophonic science fiction tale of two cats. The cats’ version of the story deals with the present and the idea of the present, its persistence and the resistance to it. With Jonathan Parant and digital guests.

Bilingual.

5 minutes. Anything goes: poetry, prose, performance, song, English, French or any other language. But be warned: it has to be your own work.