NEW CREATION:
aSH, a piece by Aurélien Bory for Shantala Shivalingappa
MON PÈRE
EST MORT
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Credit : Eva-Maude TC
Under the artistic co-direction of playwrights and performers Catherine Côté and Charles Fournier, Mon père est mort (MPEM) creates and produces accessible theatrical works that offer food for thought on contemporary social issues. The company's strength lies in its bifocal vision, embodied in its co-artistic direction, which promotes creative theater and contemporary dramaturgy by tackling current issues in a singular, straightforward and humane way.
Simple and direct, the company's name reflects the co-directors' desire for transparency and truth. It evokes the company's predilection for works that present things as they are, without compromise.
The name Mon père est mort refers to the founding event of the meeting between Catherine Côté and Charles Fournier. In 2011, Charles' father's devastating cancer and death prompted him to change careers and audition for theatrical schools. A few months later, the two artists met at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec, from which they graduated in 2015.
NEW WORKS IN CREATION
Over the course of 2023 and 2024, artists from Mon père est mort will be working on new creations that will be available for touring in future seasons !
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FOREMAN - 2019
CREATION THEATER (16 yrs +)
LAST CHANCE TO SEE
TEXT AND ORIGINAL CONCEPT Charles Fournier
CO-CREATION Catherine Côté
STAGE DIRECTION Olivier Arteau and Marie-Hélène Gendreau
INTERPRETATION Pierre-Luc Désilets, Miguel Fontaine,
Charles Fournier, Steven Lee Potvin and Vincent Roy
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Maria Alexandrov
LIGHTING DESIGN Mathieu C. Bernard
SCENOGRAPHY Amélie Trépanier
COSTUMES AND ACCESSORIES Melanie Robinson
SOUND DESIGN Vincent Roy
TECHNICAL DIRECTION Amélie-Claude Riopel
WRITING MENTOR Erika Soucy
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Valérie Côté
PRODUCTION Mon Père Est Mort
** This play is available only in FRENCH **
A group of guy friends, whom we don’t know what they have in common and that habit keeps together, gather on a woodlot after a sad event. Between settling scores, manly excesses, confidences and nonsense, FOREMAN accesses with humor and depth the struggle to express oneself, the inevitable power dynamics within a group of men, as well as the beauty of brotherhood.
This play won the award for BEST ORIGINAL TEXT at the Prix de théâtre de Québec, the BEST ORIGINAL TEXT award at the Prix de l’Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre (AQCT), the award for PLAY OF THE YEAR in the National Capital region, given by the CALQ at the Prix d’excellence des arts et de la culture, as well as Charles Fournier being nominated for BEST MALE PERFORMER at the Prix de l’AQCT.
“ Through the tale of the virile friendship between five
20-something construction workers [...] author and actor Charles Fournier wrote a powerful and moving text on a topic seldom represented in a theatrical context. A story about “regular guys’’, that live great, serious tragedies. ’’
- Luc Boulanger, La Presse
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