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RENDEZ-VOUS FOR FESTIVALGOERS
Enclosed within the buildings of the Cinémathèque québécoise, the outdoor terrace and the Café- Bar are an urban haven, a warm and intimate place to get together before and after the performances to talk, discuss, eat and drink.
This choice rendez-vous point of the 11th Festival de théâtre des Amériques will be open from Sunday to Thursday from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m., and from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Following the 2nd performance of each play, the FTA invites festivalgoers to meet with the artists. However, the get-together with the Si ce n'est toi team will take place following the first performance. The Lebanese artists Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué will both be meeting with the audience after the second performance of Looking for a Missing Employee. For more details, consult our program schedule.
These encounters will be hosted in turn by Lise Roy, Shelley Pomerance, Paul Lefebvre, Stéphane Lépine and Lynda Gaudreau.
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DIRECTING WORKS BY LIVING PLAYWRIGHTS
There is no longer any risk of Shakespeare, Brecht, Claudel or Beckett showing up at rehearsals to say how a play should be performed. It is up to directors to decide if they are going to respect conventional traditions of staging or the sometimes very strict instructions left by playwrights while alive or by the heirs to their estates. But what takes place between a director and a living playwright? Is the latter's presence in the process constraining or stimulating? Is it a hindrance to the director's freedom? Is an author's writing changed by his or her active participation in the creative process? Would the plays of Chekhov, Koltès or Tremblay have been what they are without Stanislavski, Chéreau and Brassard? These are some of the many questions to be discussed by playwrights and directors who have collaborated on productions presented by the FTA.
CAFÉ DU MONUMENT-NATIONAL : noon
Friday, May 27
Tuesday, May 31
Friday, June 3
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MAKING A SCENE... TO BE SEEN!
Claude Poissant, that Amerigo Vespucci of theatrical creation — always ready to explore new territory, always eager to see new vocabularies emerge and to overturn our vision of the theatre arts — will be engaging in a discussion with some of the artists of Nouvelles Scènes, where he serves as artistic consultant. Stéphane Gladyszewski, Pascal Lafond, Marilyn Perreault, Dave St-Pierre and Martine Laliberté will be taking part in an encounter that will no doubt be marked by the unhoped-for and the unforeseen, by a disordering of our senses and our expectations.
Sunday, June 5 at 11 a.m.
CAFÉ-BAR DE LA CINÉMATHÈQUE
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GET RID OF ARTISTS!
That is the title of an important work by the great Polish master Tadeusz Kantor. Nowadays, unfortunately, we are sometimes led to believe that that is the opinion of many people who aren't quite sure what to do with this class of spoilsports who disrupt our complacency. But they haven't given up the ghost, those artists! Indeed, they are tremendously alive, full of vigorous vitality. And in our society, where culture is often viewed only as an industry or a product, they defiantly pursue their work in ways that do not heed the call of commerce, eluding those who would like to silence them. In an era of disillusion and insistent demands, where the boat we share is taking on water, it is time to give the floor to artists (and to all those for whom art is important) and to ask them the question, What stimulates and motivates you? That is the cardinal question asked of artists and thinkers from various disciplines. It will be a day of discussion, debate and testimony about the current status of contemporary art and theatre in our society, proclaiming in clear and indomitable voice and expressing that which can never be killed.
Monday, May 30, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Venue to be chosen
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