Who among us has never imagined leaving everything behind, and starting over somewhere else? Exploring this profoundly human desire, Philippe Cyr and Gilles Poulin-Denis put together a multidisciplinary and participatory show. Each night a spectator is designated as the only actor of the show. While the rest of the audience watches him reinvent himself on the screen, the subject evolves in a labyrinth of a stage that leads him to examining his past life, as well as the life that he has dreamed. An extraordinary theatrical experience.
→ Even since the founding of his company, L’Homme allumette, the actor/director Philippe Cyr has had two hit shows at the Usine C with the iShow, created in 2013 and J’aime Hydro by Christine Beaulieu and Annabel Soutar, which was created at the Usine C in 2017. His recent creations, Le Brasier and Ce qu’on attends de moi (2017) are currently in their second running and on tour across Canada. Philippe Cyr is an associated artist to Usine C.
Gilles Poulin-Denis is an actor, author and translator. His first pièce, Rearview, was nominated for the Governor General’s prize. From 2008 to 2011, Wajdi Mouawad dubbed him an associate author at the Théâtre français du Centre national des arts d’Ottawa. He is the artistic director of the création company, 2PAR4, based in Vancouver.
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