America Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Abraham Lincoln died April 14, 1865, while attending the theatre. One of the actors assassinated him. Ever since, this incident has fascinated theatre people. It inspired Larry Tremblay to write Abraham Lincoln va au théâtre and offer a caustic meditation on America.

With his tragicomic sense — full of coincidences, identity crises, and mythic characters — Larry Tremblay has written a piece in which a much-admired director hires two actors, Laurel and Hardy, and suggests that they re-enact Lincoln’s assassination, reconstructing the chain of events of that infamous evening. A seemingly impossible task, but when it is learned that the assassination took place in a theatre, it takes on a whole other dimension. We witness American society being called into question, at once so beautiful and so ugly.

“MADNESS! THEATRE TO THE TENTH POWER. AN IMPOSSIBLE DRAMATIC COMEDY, IMPOSSIBLE TO SUM UP WITHOUT GIVING IT AWAY.” – LE DEVOIR

with Patrice DUBOIS, Maxim GAUDETTE and Benoît GOUIN
ALSO WITHÉtienne COUSINEAU, Frédéric-Antoine GUIMOND and Sasha SAMAR
direction Claude Poissant

A PRODUCTION OF THÉÂTRE PÀP (MONTRÉAL)

Abraham Lincoln goes to the theatre

FROM November 24 TO November 28, 2010
WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
24 8 PM MB CV SOLD OUT	25 8 PM	26 8 PM LIMITED AVAILABILITY	27 3:30 PM 8 PM	28 2:30 PM LIMITED AVAILABILITY

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