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The children that we once were, we still are. Childhood, that tender age of life, has been lived through by the adults who argue, yield, object, absolve. To be an adult and have children, to be a child and have adults, is to know joy, pain, tenderness, anger, compromise . . .
Tales of Real Children – these are children and adults, face to face, back to back, in situations that swing back and forth between the playful and the tragic, the unusual and the everyday, dream and reality, poetry and theatre . . . This production is composed of six stories that explore the diversity of feelings and emotions defining relations between children and adults. The writing is unbridled, freed of all constraint, and the direction approaches the text as if it were a musical score. The result is a kaleidoscopic show that is sometimes funny, sometimes impertinent, always moving and touching.
“After seeing Tales of Real Children, we leave the theatre, our heads filled with words, our ears filled with laughter, our hearts filled with emotion... and our whole being filled with the joy we felt, when, as children, we took a good running kick at the conventions of adulthood we did not understand, or did not want to understand.”
The inventive direction of Gervais Gaudreault manages to turn this literary work into a highly theatrical play. Thanks to a large wooden frame which transforms at will (ingenious set design by Richard Morin) into projections and accessories, the characters from this story literally come to life as though we were journeying into the storybook world.” “Set design is ingeniously thought out and employed, allowing for a direction that is alert and inventive, in harmony with the overall energy of the play. [...] Let there be no mistake, by successfully representing these written tales scenically, director Gervais Gaudreault wins a bet made by Suzanne Lebeau. And we, the audience, listen with enchantment.”
Sophie Vajda and Benoît Vermeulen Premièred in French in 1993, by Linda Laplante and Benoît Vermeulen, Contes d'enfants réels was brought to the stage in Spanish by Sophie Vajda and Benoît Vermeulen in the spring of 2003, at the Festival Teatralia in Madrid.
Sophie Vajda’s television experience includes Ramdam, a daily show for teenagers, as well as Histoires de filles and La vie, la vie. With Contes d'enfants réels, she has been happy to reunite with Benoît Vermeulen, who directed her in 2001 in Les Zurbains IV.
Trained at the Option-théâtre program at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, the actor and director is also the co-founder and co-artistic director of Théâtre le Clou, a creative theatre company for teenagers founded in 1989. Having won the John Hirsch Award for young, promising directors, in 1997, Benoît Vermeulen earned a Masque for best direction from the Académie québécoise du théâtre for Au moment de sa disparition in 2003.
CUENTOS DE NINOS REALES in Venezuela
Festival de las Artes/Valencia
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“Tales of Real Children forms a happy marriage between the banalities of everyday life and the freedom of the imagination, biting into those beings too lively to be perfect. Lebeau creates little bubbles of freedom into which well behaved children, prodigies and overprotected babies can escape. Even her writing seems to break free from all constraints. 
A graduate of the Option-théâtre program at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, Sophie Vajda has had experience on stage and television. In the theatre, she is in the cast of Les 7 jours by Simon Labrosse, as well as Lorenzaccio, Andromaque, and Comédie russe at various Montreal theatres. Under the direction of Brassard, Pintal, Faucher, Denoncourt, and Poissant, Sophie Vajda works equally well in creative and repertory theatre.
A long-time collaborator with Le Carrousel, Benoît Vermeulen was part of the team that premièred Gil in 1989 and its English-language version (Burt) in 1990; he also performed in Contes d'enfants réels in 1993 and in Petit Navire in 1997. He has excelled in creative theatre in Les Enfants d’Irène, La Salle des loisirs, Que se passe-t-il à Orangeville?, and À quelle heure on meurt? In television, Benoît Vermeulen has acted in Robin et Stella and is now a director for the show RealTV.
