Fridolin: Beloved Child Of The Masses

DRESSED IN HIS TRI-COLOUR HOCKEY SWEATER, cap askew, Fridolin is an impish boy who says out loud what everybody else is thinking quietly. This enfant terrible draws a critical portrait of Canadian society with humour and insight. His mischievous and twinkling chronicles do more than bear critical witness to a transformation in Québec society: they speed it up.

Gratien Gélinas, nicknamed “The Father of Québec Dramatic Art,” created the character of Fridolin for radio in 1937, then for theatre the following year. Les Fridolinades immediately became revues or series of sketches, songs, parodies, and monologues on such varied topics as the second-class status of French-Canadians and World War II.

“ALTHOUGH HE DATES BACK FROM 1937, FRIDOLIN CASTS AN INSIGHTFUL EYE ON OUR ERA.” – VOIR, MONTRÉAL

with Michel SÉGUIN, Lina BLAIS, Nathaly CHARRETTE, René LEMIEUX and Jocelyne ZUCCO
direction Perry SCHNEIDERMAN

A COPRODUCTION OF THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE TORONTO AND THÉÂTRE LA CATAPULTE (OTTAWA)

Les Fridolinades

From October 27 to November 7, 2010
WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
27 8 PM MB CV	28 8 PM	29 8 PM	30 8 PM	31 2:30 PM
3 8 PM MB CV	4 8 PM	5 8 PM	6 3:30 PM 8 PM	7 2:30 PM

	PREVIEW
	OPENING
MB	MERCREDI BAVARDEUR (Post-performance discussion with the actors)
CV	PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN
F	FAMILY
SURTITLED PERFORMANCES IN RED

Student Matinees

Les Fridolinades

November, 2010
WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
3 8 AM	4 1 PM