French

Est-ce qu’on ne pourrait pas s’aimer un peu?
October 13–17 2004

By/with Sandrine Hooge, Serge Bodart et ƒric De Staercke
Directed by Jaco Van Dormael

musician SERGE BODART set CHRISTINE FLASSCHOEN lighting LUC JOUNIAUX costumes RAPHAËLle DEBATTICE stage manager LUC JOUNIAUX

A delicious burlesque comedy in several tableaux and few words about the tortuous quest for love. A man and a woman desperately want to meet, touch, love one another, but fate and adversity will have none of it.

A production from Brussels’ Théâtre Loyal de Trac, sponsored by Théâtre du Bic, with the collaboration of Les Voyagements, a Quebec company that tours new work.

Le Collier d’Hélène
October 27–November 13 2004

By Carole Fréchette
with marie-HÉLÈNE FONTAINE and KADER MANSOUR
Directed by  Guillaume bernardi

ORIGINAL SCORE Ernie et Maryem Tollar • SET AND LIGHTING Glen Charles Landry COSTUMES Nina Okens STAGE MANAGER Emanuelle Langelier PHOTOGRAPH NIR BAREKET SET CONSTRUCTION MCWOOD STUDIOS

A TfT début for this renowned Quebec dramatist, winner of the 2002 Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Award for Theatre. Somewhere in the Middle-East, in a city that has been devastated by warfare, Hélène, a North American tourist, is searching for her lost necklace. All of a sudden, her quest becomes crucial. What distresses Hélène so much? The loss of her necklace or the discovery of human misery?

A production by Théâtre français de Toronto

Retour aux souches, SOL
December 1–5 2004

with Marc Favreau

Quebec’s great linguistic clown will have you in stitches as he twists the French language to come up with delightful puns.

Les Productions Universol

Contes urbains contes torontois
February 16–26 2005

by Marguerite Andersen, Claudette Gravel, Aristote Kavungu, Glen Charles Landry, Marc LeMyre and Anne Nenarokoff
Directed by Guy Mignault

An evening of storytelling. Six Toronto authors each have their story told by TfT’s well-known actors.

A production by Théâtre français de Toronto

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
April 13–30 2005

BY Molière
DIRECTED BY Diana Leblanc

Molière’s great classic about a naïve but enormously wealthy Bourgeois who is determined to live his life as a grand gentleman. Monsieur Jourdain never knew that he could speak prose, and while he knew he was rich, he had no idea he was a nouveau riche.

A production by Théâtre français de Toronto

Impératif présent
May 5–15 2005

BY Michel Tremblay
with Jacques Godin and Robert Lalonde
Directed by André Brassard

Michel Tremblay’s latest play, in the original production from Théâtre de Quat’Sous in Montreal. The father and son from Le Vrai monde? are reunited, thirty years later. Alex and Claude are face to face again, each one alone with his hatred for the other. Two great actors, Jacques Godin and Robert Lalonde. Tremblay-Brassard’s twenty-third collaboration!

A production by Théâtre de Quat’Sous

 

Nos spectacles ont lieu au
BERKELEY STREET THEATRE
26, rue Berkeley
(au sud de la rue Front,
une rue à l’ouest de Parliament)
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