Photo: Jean-Guy Thibodeau

COPRODUCTION THÉÂTRE REPÈRE ET FESTIVAL DE THÉATRE DES AMÉRIQUES
Collective writting by Théâtre Repère
Directed by : Robert Lepage

The story begins a hundred million years ago, when a gigantic mass of rock broke up into the continents. Since then, we have been separated by ocean. The living celebrate on the shores of the vast expanse of water, while Venice and immigrants sink into its depths, the castaways of dreams...

Different migrations from the Old World to the New, the collision of encounters, the intersections of destinies, revolutions.... On both sides of the Atlantic, human beings seek to come together and set off - toward the unknown.

The earth shook for Théâtre Repère's Plaques tectoniques
"Director Robert Lepage and gang place their production in an unused train station (Gare Jean-Talon) - a theatre of scaffolding and pulleys - just above a new Metro stop. A place of arrivals and departures, of meetings and separations, the station is at once point of connection and of transformation. (...) Another stage in the life of living/evolving theatre, this work-in-progress is the astounding and delightful result of theatre tektons at their best: carving a disparate world down to essential and building on them, producing new forms through deformation".

Ken Morrison, Montreal Mirror, March 29, 1990