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Larry Tremblay at TNM
Luc Bourgeois, Mani Soleymanlou, Bruno Marcil and Didier Lucien share the stage in the play Abraham Lincoln goes to the theater, which runs at the Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde until April 8th. Although it’s difficult to summarize the play, according to journalist Stéphanie Morin, “Luc Bourgeois and Mani Soleymanlou (unrecognizable) are brilliant in the roles of fake Laurel and Hardy. Their complicity, this amazing way of complementing each other, but above all their talent for supporting the physical – and very slapstick – humor that underlines the piece… everything in their interpretation is high-flying. »
The Underground Art Festival celebrates
PHOTO CHARLES WILLIAM PELLETIER, SPECIAL COLLABORATION
A work by one of the three curators of Underground Art 2023, Ayrson Heràclito
Music, encounters, dance, exchange… This is what we experience when we visit the artistic route of the Underground Art Festival. Around thirty artists are exhibiting until April 9th in the spaces of the Place Ville-Marie, the World Trade Center, the Palais des Congrès, the Jacques Parizeau building and the Place de la Cité Internationale. “Once again this year, Underground Art is more than just an art exhibition. It’s a way of enlivening and artistically transforming the city’s underground network,” explains journalist Éric Clément in his article published on March 18th.
Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne on tour
PHOTO JUSTINE CHAMPAGNE SUPPLIED BY THE GILLES-VIGNEAULT THEATRE
The stage adaptation of the film La grande séduction is supported by an ingenious cast.
The guided tour of the Sainte-Marie-la-Mauderne play continues. It will stop at the Maison des arts Desjardins in Drummondville on March 22 at 7:30 p.m. and at the Salle André-Mathieu in Laval on March 24 at 7:30 p.m. The play stars Michel Rivard, Normand Brathwaite and Fayolle Jean Jr. “One of the great successes of this show remains the beautiful staging of Frédéric Blanchette, who manages to take us from one place to another with two or three strings, on a windswept island , to which the houses cling to the side of the rocks,” says the journalist Stéphanie Morin in her review published on July 2, 2022.
AK Antu and Zi!
PHOTO FROM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ON ART WEBSITE
AK Ant
The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) closes its 41st edition in collaboration with electronic music festival Mutek on Sunday with a performance by AKAntu and zi!. The invitation: a sensory experience of afrobeat and electronic sounds carried by two emerging Montreal artists at UQAM’s Agora du Cœur des Sciences. The event is free and requires no reservation.
Lea Carrier, La Presse
Four mini hip-hop concerts at the Plaza exit
PHOTO CHARLES WILLIAM PELLETIER, SPECIAL COLLABORATION
Raccoon will be at the Love & Hip-Hop Party at Exit Plaza on March 23rd.
The Love & Hip-Hop evening returns for the second time at the Plaza Exit in Plaza Saint-Hubert in Montreal. The concept is simple: Quebec rap and R&B artists follow one another on stage, each offering a short concert of around 30 minutes. This Thursday, March 23, rapper Raccoon, beatmaker Modlee, singer-songwriter Dee End and singer Mimo are on the program.
Pascal LeBlanc, La Presse
Celebrate 25 years of mezzo in your living room
PHOTO CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI, AP
Montreal native Bruce Liu, winner of the prestigious 2021 Chopin Piano Competition, will perform Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on April 19. The concert will be broadcast on mezzo.
The celebrations of Mezzo’s 25th anniversary, which began on Tuesday, will continue until May 1st with a very interesting program consisting of 25 emblematic concerts and 17 live events, coming from Paris, London, Prague, Amsterdam and Barcelona will be transferred. The latter include pianist Bruce Liu and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on April 19. Among the concerts that have marked the last 25 years of the classical music, dance and jazz channel are Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini at the Lucerne Festival, Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez at Covent Garden, then Nikolaus Harnoncourt and mentions Jonas Kaufmann at the Opera House Zurich.
Pascal LeBlanc, La Presse
Prism in the Wilder Building Studio Theater
PHOTO ELIAS DJEMIL MATASSOV PROVIDED BY DANSE DANSE
Prism is a new creation by Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund.
Choreographers Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund, the duo behind Tentacle Trible, present their colorful new creation Prism. Inspired by street style, martial arts and contemporary dance, the five dancers (including Lê Phan and Höglund) unfold their syncopated gestures in front of the mirrors set up on the stage. Result: your image is infinitely reproduced and deconstructed in a chromatic and pluralistic ballet. A kaleidoscopic performance presented as part of Danse Danse at the Wilder Building’s Studio-Théâtre until March 25th.
In the cinema: Twilight for a killer
Twilight for a Killer follows the career of killer Donald Lavoie (Éric Bruneau). Donald Lavoie works for mafia boss Claude Dubois (Benoît Gouin) and is hunted by his clan after being compromised in a double homicide case. He then becomes an informant to Inspector Roger Burns (Sylvain Marcel). “Raymond St-Jean accepted the challenge well, avoiding any glorification of a man endowed with charisma whose fall was as abrupt as his rise in the underworld of southwest Montreal. Éric Bruneau asserts himself in the role of Donald Lavoie by revealing both the relentless nature of a murderer who can coldly carry out orders, and the more fragile aspect of an individual in need of reassurance,” writes journalist Marc-André Lussier in his review of March 10th.