A Moon Between Two Houses (2012)
Summary
Plume is lively, chatty, cheerful. Taciturne, on the other hand, talks little, but he watches and listens. His passion is music.
They live next door to each other, but that, it seems, is all they have in common. Only in the night, with its spooky sounds and looming shadows, do they learn how to find out about each other, smooth over their differences, and become friends.
A foundational play in Quebec theatre for young audiences, this poetic fable directly addresses the idea of being open to another and to the world, expressed through a symbolic universe that children instinctively understand.
Text
Suzanne Lebeau
Directed by
Marie-Eve Huot
Assistant director
Dominique Cuerrier
Cast
Simon Labelle-Ouimet, et Philomène Lévesque-Rainville
Set design
Patrice Charbonneau-Brunelle
Costumes
Cynthia Saint-Gelais
Lighting design
Thomas Godefroid
Original music
Nicolas Letarte
Sound design
Nicolas Letarte et Alexi Babin Rioux
Make up and hair
Suzanne Trépanier
Production and technical manager
Dominique Gagnon
Sound manager
Alexandre Gendron
Lighting manager – alternately
Dominique Gagnon and Thomas Godefroy
Photos in show : François-Xavier Gaudreault
“Marie-Eve Huot’s intimate style of direction brings the play to the children’s level, and they react spontaneously and candidly. She has taken inspiration from the works of painter Marc Chagall to create a magical universe with warm colours. Patrice Charbonneau-Brunelle’s set design is also superb.
“Children easily recognize themselves in Suzanne Lebeau’s simple, direct language. Lebeau knows how to talk to children, and her theme is universal – the period when children define themselves in relation to the other, the unknown, and the world.”
Éric Moreau, Le Soleil
“With its intimate atmosphere and accessible story, Une lune entre deux maisons is completely appropriate for an initiation to the theatre. It was a good thing to revive this play: who knows, perhaps children who loved it thirty years ago will rediscover it with their own kids.”
Magali Paquin, MonThéâtre.qc.ca
“Patrice Charbonneau-Brunelle’s set design is beautiful, and Marie-Eve Huot’s direction is refreshing, even poetic. And I must say that the actors are charming: they truly embody tender, touching children. Bravo to Philomène Lévesque-Rainville and Simon Labelle-Ouimet. In fact, I would say that Une lune entre deux maisons was received as enthusiastically by parents as by their children.”
Anne-Josée Cameron, Radio-Canada
Premièred on March 7, 2012, by Le Carrousel at Théâtre les Gros Becs (Quebec City, Quebec); in residency at Théâtre de la Ville (Longueuil, Quebec).
Prix LOJIQ/RIDEAU Francophonie en 2013.
| 2011-2012 Season : 53 performances | |
| In Quebec : | Longueuil (expérimentales), Québec, Terrebonne, Beloeil, Montréal. |
| In Ontario : | Ottawa |
| 2012-2013 Season : 11 performances – One international festival | |
| In Quebec : | Montréal – Festival Petits Bonheurs, Trois-Rivières, Laval, Jonquière. |
| 2013-2014 Season : 18 performances | |
| In Quebec : | Au Québec : Montréal : à la Place des Arts, à la Maison de la culture Frontenac et dans les arrondissements de Villeray-St-Michel-Parc-Extension, Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, L’Île-Bizard-Ste-Geneviève, Saint-Laurent, LaSalle, Mercier-Hochelaga, Plateau-Mont-Royal, Saint-Léonard et Outremont, Shawinigan, à la Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles. |
PUBLICATIONS
Leméac (Québec), 2012, Éditions Théâtrales (France), 2006; Éditions Québec/Amérique (Québec), 1980; Ediciones Colihue (Argentine), 2006, ASSITEJ-Espagne (Espagne), 1983.