Under the motto “Dreaming big”, the artistic director of the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Lorraine Pintal, presented the program for the 2023-2024 season on Monday, World Theater Day. A season focused on the promise of a better world and an open dialogue with the public.
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The next season will open in the summer with a Robert Lepage double. His river show The Seven Branches of the Ōta River (which was canceled last fall due to a backstage fire at the theater) is finally set to premiere in August. Next comes Courville, a work made at Le Diamant in Quebec that recalls the great director’s youth. Olivier Normand defends the leading role surrounded by puppets inspired by the Japanese theater, the bunraku. From 12.09.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
Some artists of the 2023-2024 season: Alex Bergeron, Marie-Josée Bastien, Florent Siaud, Édith Patenaude, Lyndz Dantiste, Lorraine Pintal and Marc Messier
In November, the Compagnie Porte Parole presents Projet Polytechnique, a documentary play by Marie-Joanne Boucher and Jean-Marc Dalphond, directed by Marie-Josée Bastien. The show will pay tribute to the 14 female victims of the 1989 Polytechnique massacre. It will also be “a place of reflection and consolation with the public” around the problem of feminicide in the world, explains the Quebec director.
Molière in the new TNM
The management of the TNM very much hopes that the work on the expansion of the theater will be completed in January 2024. The company will open the new year with Le misanthrope. This masterpiece by Molière is staged by the brilliant Florent Siaud in “a very contemporary and urban reading”. With Francis Ducharme in the role of Alceste, Alex Bergeron, Alice Pascual, Évelyne Rompré, Dany Boudreault… The production will then go on tour in Quebec in March 2024.
From March 19 to April 13, actor Marc Messier will defend the moving role of a man with a loss of autonomy in Le père by Florian Zeller on the TNM stage. Edith Patenaude stages this “great text”, a “tragic farce” about our relationship to old age and our denial of death. Actress Catherine Trudeau will play Messier as Anne.
The season concludes in May with Lysis, a creation by Fanny Britt and Alexia Bürger, which has been postponed twice due to the pandemic. Lorraine Pintal conducted 17 actors there, including Bénédicte Décary, Steve Gagnon, Cynthia Wu-Maheux, Brigitte Paquette, Isabelle Vincent, Olivia Palacci…
PHOTO CATHERINE LEFEBVRE, ARCHIVE SPECIAL COLLABORATION
Olivia Palacci and Bénédicte Décary during the theatrical taping of Lysis in January 2022. The play will eventually be screened at TNM next season.
From February 23rd to March 3rd, the TNM is pleased to welcome the Sentinel Theater with the revival of the play M’appelle Mohamed Ali by Congolese author Dieudonné Niangouna, directed by Philippe Racine and Tatiana Zinga Botao and starring Lyndz Dantist among others. A show offered as an option to subscription.
Also, Seasonal Subscriptions are now available. However, single tickets for the general public will not be available until August 19th.