For the 2022-2023 season, the Théâtre Périscope offers a 100% Quebec program, varied and interdisciplinary with dance, music and video.
The season, entirely conceived by Marie-Hélène Gendreau, who left Périscope last winter, the ten pieces and three laboratories on display have received the approval of Samuel Corbeil and Gabrielle Ferron, co-artistic directors in office since January.
“We are excited to unveil this season, which we believe to be ours,” Samuel Corbeil said during an interview hours before the season’s reveal to the public.
Gabrielle Ferron indicates that the 2022-2023 season will only feature Quebec creators. An important element after the last two years shattered by the pandemic.
Under the name “We the Living” theatrical objects are shown that promote resilience. It will bring out the beauty of being together when it all falls apart. We celebrate living together and explore the question of what remains alive in grief.
It will explore, in a variety of forms, what unites us and what makes the human experience unique.
“This hybridity of forms testifies to the great artistic freedom that is one of Periscope’s missions,” emphasized Samuel Corbeil.
The two co-directors are betting that customers will return to Periscope after closures and warnings. A series of activities will be organized throughout the weeks to bring the theater on rue Crémazie to life.
“We don’t have a subscription formula and we have a bar area where you can do anything. There are other ways to reach the public,” Gabrielle Fillion pointed out.
Mauritius
The 2022-2023 season begins on September 14th with The Twins of Arcadia by Philippe Soldevilla.
This environmental fable, which runs through October 1st, centers on twins who are destined to inherit the crown of New Arcadia. The sister dreams of becoming queen. Brothers. The title of king does not interest him.
The whole thing takes place in a dystopian world where books and music are banned and the moon, animals and the sea serve as legends. The search for the lost paradise becomes a question of survival. Everything is set to music by the Tutta Musica orchestra.
Anne-Marie Olivier presents her creation Maurice from October 25th to November 12th. A play that tells the story of an aphasic man who suffered a stroke and went into a nine-day coma. A man who struggles every day to exchange ideas with people, to talk about love, politics, religion or quantum physics. Anne-Marie Olivier will share the stage with Michèle Motard.
The Amar sisters collective presents L’usine from October 11th to 29th. A play in which Josephine and Joseph, two invalids, keep themselves alive in the name of their love in a post-apocalyptic universe.
It’s set in a city where the streets are deserted, the animals are dead and the river is a dump. They find refuge in an old city bus that will gradually take the shape of a sickroom.
Rounding out this 2022 season portion are We Are Shining Forever Seeking Entrance to the Kingdom of Words (November 16-26) and Men’s Orchestra Kitchen Chicken (December 6-17).
I Want to Participate in Mayhem (January 17-February 4), The Boy in the Back Row (February 14-March 4), Décimées (March 14-April 1), Satie, Trouble at the Head of the Wood ( April 18 through May 5) and Memoirs of a Volcano (April 26 through May 14) will conclude the 2022-2023 season.
The Periscope will also feature three labs and the Never Read Festival will be held again from November 30th to December 5th.
All information is online at theatreperiscope.qc.ca.