A Word From The Artistic Director
Chers amis, Dear Friends,
HERE I AM TO SAY A FEW WORDS about our 40th season, hoping that you will celebrate with us.
Three years ago we started to present performances with English surtitles. Last year we offered a surtitle subscription and this year we continue to give you French and French-Canadian theatre with surtitles.
Voilà! We open the season with Molière’s The Misanthrope, the eternally current play about fashion versus anti-conformism, friendship versus profitability and love versus reason. How current!
We bring you a new work commissioned by TfT, Le Don Quichotte de Toronto / Toronto’s Don Quixote, by Toronto-based playwright-in-residence Glen Charles Landry. In this heart warming story about survival after a cruel loss, Don Quixote fights high-rise buildings and the subway, not windmills.
We also present a bilingual poetic play, L’Homme invisible / The Invisible Man, by Patrice Desbiens, about a man living in Northern Ontario in search of his identity. Torn between French and English, the man sets out on a quest which resonates with all of us.
We end our surtitle subscription with our new musical Et si on chantait... / Shall We Sing? I have translated the songs myself, in order to bring you their real sense rather than the exact lyrics. This show’s leitmotif is happiness, a reminder that it is the artist’s prerogative to change the world and make it a nicer place to live in.
Here it is, Théâtre français de Toronto’s 40th season. I am proud of what we have to offer and I am looking forward to greeting you at the Berkeley Street Theatre for our next SURTITLED PERFORMANCE.
Theatre made comme ci comme ça? Au contraire mon frère!
Theatre in the French style, à la mode de Toronto.
There is a seat waiting for you, so prenez place.
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Guy Mignault
Artistic Director