Already April! Here are some suggestions that have nothing wrong with them.
Posted 12:33pm Updated 12:39pm
A story by Simon Boulerice at the Maison symphonique
Simon Boulerice’s fairy tale The Cloud Shovel comes to life this Sunday at 3pm at the Maison symphonique. Conducted by Geneviève Leclair, the Orchester Métropolitain and actors Salomé Corbo, Fayolle Jean Jr. and Adrien Belugou tell in music and words the story of Elliot, a young boy suffering from vitiligo, a disease that left his skin with white spots like cumulus clouds. This children’s concert for children aged 5 to 11 is an adaptation of the album of the same name published by La courte Scale in 2018 and illustrated by Josée Bisaillon.
Veronique Larocque,
10 years Festival de la Voix
PHOTO CHARLES LABERGE, ARCHIVE LA PRESSE
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The Voice Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary. From April 1st to 28th, the event, which will showcase the works of composers and musicians from Quebec and Canada, will feature eight concerts and three workshops in different locations on Montreal’s West Island. The celebrations begin this Saturday with the female voices of the Blue Dawn Quartet and the spiritual music of the IMANI Gospel Choir. The next day the audience will be able to hear the vocal quartet Quartom. Daniel Lavoie is also one of the artists who will be taking part in the festival later this month.
Veronique Larocque,
Art house cinema in Verdun
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
Ayana O’Shun, director of the documentary The Myth of the Black Woman
The documentary The Myth of the Black Woman can be viewed this Friday in the presence of the director Ayana O’Shun, as well as on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday at the MultiCAUS in Verdun as part of the screenings offered by Ciné -Quartier . The organization, which presents auteur films in different parts of the metropolitan area, offers a very interesting selection of recent works at MultiCAUS in April and May: Dehors Serge hors by Pier-Luc Latulippe and Martin Fournier, Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir, and Close by Lukas Dhont especially the program. In order to give as many people access as possible, the sessions are offered on a voluntary basis.
Veronique Larocque,
Castles in the air at the Denise Pelletier Theater
PHOTO DAVID OSPINA, PROVIDED BY THE DENISE PELLETIER THEATER
Dany Boudreault and Mary-Lee Picknell in Castles in the Sky.
The play Châteaux du ciel follows the life of King Louis II (Dany Boudreault) from his coronation to his death at the age of 40. It is above all the emotion that is preserved in this work written by Marie-Claude Verdier and directed by Claude Poissant. “This production, finely staged by Claude Poissant, is full of emotions. The show is also backed by a solid cast and talented team of designers. Worth mentioning is the refined scenography by Odile Gamache; careful lighting by Éric Champoux; and the sumptuous period costumes of Marc Senécal,” writes journalist Luc Boulanger in his review published on March 23rd. On view until April 15th.
Jeans-Sébastien Girard in the Brossard Star
PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, THE PRESS
Comedian Jean-Sebastien Girard
Comedian Jean-Sébastien Girard continues his tour, stopping at L’Étoile in Brossard on Saturday April 1 to present his show Un Garçon par comme les autres. “The comedian put on a solid performance for 80 minutes, despite some fluctuations in his performance throughout the performance (stage experience will quickly correct this). His show traces the story of his life with crude and mean jokes. Biting humor that also makes one think of the big and small humiliations that are the fate of many lives,” explains journalist Luc Boulanger in his review published on March 16th.
Drag the coyote in the Pauline Julien room
PHOTO PHILIPPE BOIVIN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVE
drag the coyote
Tire le coyote will be on stage this Saturday April 1st at the Salle Pauline-Julien in the Île-Bizard-Sainte-Geneviève district. According to journalist Josée Lapointe, it is “a show that is smooth and slow, like their last album, that warms the souls of the audience. »
Aladdin arrives at the Place des Arts
PHOTOGRAPH BY DEEN VAN MEER, SUPPLIED BY DISNEY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS
Young Aladdin (Adi Roy) and his faithful companions Babkak (Jake Letts), Omar (Ben Chavez) and Kassim (Colt Prattes) in the Disney touring production
The musical Aladdin arrives at the Place des Arts. The Broadway hit will be presented in Montreal until Sunday. There are still tickets left for the performance on March 29 at 8 p.m. “A celebration of color and wonder, costumes and sets, music and dance. The musical from the film Aladdin is the meeting of Hollywood and Bollywood, the time of a pompously celebrated wedding. A family, connecting show. And worthy of Disney’s magic recipe,” noted journalist Luc Boulanger in his review published on March 29.
In the cinema: The innocent
According to our critic Marc-André Lussier, director Louis Garrel’s fourth feature film is a real success. Abel (Louis Garrel) and Michel (Roschdy Zem), two prisoners who take part in game workshops led by Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg). “L’innocent rediscovers a bit of the spirit of a cinema of the past (which the poster graphically evokes) and is the result of a really nice mix of genres that nobody could have foreseen with such a nice outcome. Call it the magic of the cinema,” Marc-André Lussier tells us in his review published on March 24th.