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In co-production with l’Espace Malraux/Scène Nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie (France), Le Théâtre/Scène Nationale de Narbonne (France), and le Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne (Québec)
A house in a thick forest, a school at the end of the road, vegetables day and night, the smell of blood hanging in the air. A careless rooster, the fox and the weasel, a wolf and hunters, children and ogres, an ogre child. We are in the world of fairy tales, and must allow ourselves to be swept along if we are to discover the full richness of the message. Throughout the story of the Ogreling, Suzanne Lebeau explores the never-ending struggle between good and evil that resides within each of us. After all, ogres might not only live in fairy tales ...
The mother: Mireille Thibault
or Luisa Huertas (Spanish-language version) Mireille Thibault and François Trudel have been performing in The Ogreling since it premiered, playing in French, English, Italian, and Spanish.
In 1991, Mireille Thibault played La Thénardier in the bilingual production of Les Misérables in Montreal. She has been featured in a number of TV series – Scoop, Quatre et demi, Street Legal – but it was as Angélique in the series Cormoran that s he captured Quebecers’ hearts. In Le petit monde de Laura Cadieux, viewers were happy to rediscover her delicious Madame Gladu character. She has played in more than 20 feature films, including Le Matou, Karmina, C’t’à ton tour Laura Cadieux, and Laura Cadieux… la suite. This year, she appeared in Carole Laure’s movie CK2 (Seek you too).
In the theatre, she was in the cast of Antigona en Nueva York in 1998, which earned her the award for best actress from the Mexican Association of Theatre Critics (Premio a la Mejor Actriz del Año - Asociación Mexicana de Críticos de Teatro). More recently, she has played in Malinche, La myjer que cayo del cielo, and La Celestina. In film, Luisa Huertas earned the Ariel Award for Supporting Actress for her performance in Mentiras Piadosas in 1989. Recently, she starred in Cuento de hadas para dormir cocodrilos and El Crimen del Padre Amaro. She was also in the cast of The Mask of Zorro with Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.
After studying classical music and French literature, François Trudel began his career in the theatre through explorations of mime in Paris and Montreal. He then began theatre studies at Université du Québec à Montréal, at the same time working with the Omnibus mime school, directed by Jean Asselin. He performed in one of Omnibus’s most acclaimed productions, Le Cycle des Rois. He then appeared in plays produced by Théâtre Incliné, Théâtre de l’Opsis, and Momentum. He takes part in public readings, is a busy dubbing artist, and performs in plays produced by the cultural division of Radio-Canada; he has also been seen on television in Ent’Cadieux, les Bâtisseurs d’eau, Fortier, Virginie and Histoires de filles. Maintaining his interest in movement and body play, this multi-talented artist has worked as a director or performer with the theatre-dance companies P’tites Géantes, Carpe Diem, and Tenon Mortaise. François Trudel has performed on stage a number of times in recent seasons: in three shows for Productions Sibyllines directed by Brigitte Haentjens (Malina, Hamlet Machine, Les farces conjugales) and L’Impromptu de l’Alma, directed by Elizabeth Albahaca and produced by Le Groupe de la Veillée. With Le Carrousel, for a number of years he has alternated between playing the giant Troller in Conte du jour et de la nuit and the title role in The Ogreling.
Not presented this year.
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In The Ogreling, the son of an ogre decides to escape his destiny. But first, he must overcome three ordeals, challenges to his instincts and his troubling desires. From his father he inherited an appetite for flesh; but from his mother he received a hunger to live at peace with the world.
An accomplished actress with more than 25 years’ experience in Quebec’s most famous theatres, Mireille Thibault is as at home with Molière, Kleist, and Feydeau as with the contemporary plays of Normand Chaurette and Michel Tremblay. After graduating from the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal, she pursued her education in Venice with a work-study course in Commedia dell’arte under Giovanni Poli. Her training at the faculty of music at Université de Montréal opened doors to classical singing, and she toured a number of times with the Chamber Opera of Quebec. She also directed operettas, including La Veuve Joyeuse (The Merry Widow) and Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard), and co-wrote songs and librettos for musical comedies. 
Trained at the School of Dramatic Arts at I.N.B.A. and the University Theatre Centre C.U.T.-U.N.A.M. in Mexico, Luisa Huertas has been an actress for more than 30 years. Regularly performing on stage, on television, and in films, she shines in all media. Luisa Huertas has made exceptional contributions to the arts, playing in more than 50 plays, 13 festivals and international tours, and 26 films, as well as assuming voice direction for more than 10 theatre and television productions. Luisa Huertas has acted in more than 20 television series. 
