In residency at Théâtre de la Ville in Longueuil (Quebec) and in co-production with Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne (Quebec) and Grand Théâtre de Lorient (France).

Finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Literature, 2007, Theatre Category.

Élise and Léo live in a vacuum,
prisoners of the fear of the unknown and of regimented time measured in grains of sand.
One morning, thanks to an exquisite dream, out of the desire to do something good,
out of the excitation of shoes held too long on the leash,
time breaks down, the door opens . . . the sky and the earth tip . . .
The daily oranges have a different flavour.
The great question of breaking away toward the world is asked . . .

“While the power of theatre is to transport us, to take us on a trip far beyond what we might have imagined, theatre for young audiences is also the bearer of meaning. And if very young children very wide eyes as they watched the play, it is because magic was at work!” La Revue, Terrebonne

“Immersing young children in a world where fear and the desire to explore confront each other, the play Souliers de sable . . . revealed itself to be very sensitive. It flows us like grains of sand through an hourglass.” MédiaMatinQuébec

“This was also the first time at the theatre for my grandson Lex, who will be three years old in early January, and it was a total success, thanks to an intelligent script, inventive direction, inviting sets, and talented actors.” Planète Québec

Martin Boileau

An actor who trained at École Jacques Lecoq, where he mastered movement and gesture, Martin Boileau is also a writer and director. This multi-talented artist has written four plays for young audiences, including Les Souliers rouges, first produced in 2001 and performed in Québec, France, and Tunisia. In 2006, La Guerre des mouches was premièred by Théâtre Quatre/Corps at L’Arrière-Scène in Beloeil. A recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant, Boileau also undertook a writing residency at the same time to work with Suzanne Lebeau and Serge Marois as dramaturgy consultants on Le Cœur en fugue. His play Simone et Victor, for adult audiences, was nominated at the Soirée des Masques 2005 (Regional Production) and reprised in Grenoble in 2006.

Martin Boileau has distinguished himself as an actor in L’Oiseau vert and Le Tout pour la toux at Théâtre Tout à Trac, two shows featuring masked play that toured Québec and Belgium, as well as in three of his plays produced by Théâtre Quatre/Corps. In 2004, he was in the cast of the international production Navigare by Rosegarden Teaterhus in Norway. Since 2005, he has been exploring directing with his two newest plays La Guerre des mouches and Tout à fait Obsessionnel, cynilogues, a 2006 “three thumbs up” recipient at the Vue sur la relève festival in Montréal.

Marie-Michelle Garon

A graduate of the Option-théâtre program at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, where she had Gervais Gaudreault as a teacher, Marie-Michelle Garon has shown her curiosity and audacity since she graduated in the spring of 2001. She has been passionate about theatre for young audiences since she was a child, and in 2001 she founded Théâtre du bonheur perdu; this company presented De celui qui partit en quête de la peur, a show inspired by the Grimm Brothers, at the Monument-National, directed by Garon. From 2002 to 2004, she understudied Linda Laplante in the role of the storyteller in Conte du jour et de la nuit, a show in Le Carrousel’s repertoire.

Marie-Michelle Garon directed the play Eva Perón by Copi in 2000 and continued exploring the work of this playwright by taking part in public readings of Les Quatre jumelles and L’homosexuel… and playing in La nuit de madame Lucienne. In the summer of 2002, she was in the cast of J’ai rêvé à des crêpes, a collage of short plays by Christopher Durang. She participated in readings of Guitare Tatou at Espace Go in 2004 and Record de longévité and Laura de Montréal at the Festival du Jamais lu in 2005 and 2006. In film, she is the new Arthémise Baltour in Un homme et son péché directed by Charles Binamé.

Joachim Tanguay

Since he graduated from the Option-théâtre program at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse in 2002, Joachim Tanguay has easily navigated between creative theatre for young audiences and repertory theatre. For Théâtre Parminou and Théâtre Bluff, he has played in La Petite Voix and etiEn. He also appeared in Le Stage, a short text from the show Les Zurbains 2003 presented to adolescent audiences by Théâtre le Clou. In the summer of 2002, he played Valère in Le Médecin malgré lui, at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, and Clitandre in Les Femmes savantes, at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, where Montreal audiences also had the pleasure of discovering him in Le Révizor.

In 2002, Joachim Tanguay was nominated for the Prix Olivier-Reichenbach for Discovery of the Year for his interpretation of Valère, and 2004, he returned to the Soirée des Masques as a nominee in the category Revelation of the Year for the title role in etiEn. He is also the founder of Théâtre de la Brique rouge, whose first production, Salut au théâtre québécois!, toured colleges in 2005. In 2003, he took part in a public reading of L’Intimité as part of the Semaine de la dramaturgie, produced by the Centre des auteurs dramatiques, and acted in several television series (Watatatow, Une grenade avec ça?).

Not presented this year.

Photos, and illustrations:
Manon André, Bernard Bélanger, Véro Boncompagni, Caroline Bourbonnais, Audrey Boyle, Bernard Brault, Nathalie Caron, Maxime Côté, Marc Cramer, Jacques Driol, Yves Dubé, Stéphane Dumais, Marc Dussault, Matthew Fournier, Émilie Gagné-Prud’homme, François-Xavier Gaudreault, Alain Gauvin, Sophie Grenier, Jean-François Hamon, Josée Lambert, Bruno Marcil, Wolfgang Noethlichs, Bernard Préfontaine, Olivier Prialnic, Isabelle Rancier, Mathieu Rivard, Yves Renaud,Daniel Robillard, Marie-Claude Rodrigue, Pierre Roussel, Jean-Christophe Verbert, Chen Yu-Wei, Izabel Zimmer.

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