UNE EXCELLENTE TRILOGIE SUR LA VIE to Play La Chapelle

Une excellente trilogie sur la vie (An Awesome Trilogy about Life) is a performative autobiographical theatrical solo work that seeks to question our relationship to time (past, present, future) as human beings.

The show manifests as a staged work and installation in which the performer reveals three scenic tableaux of key moments in his life : a ritual that attempts to return him to childhood, a struggle with the present taking the form of a visual and perceptual hallucination, and finally, a fantastic landscape of an uncertain future.

"It started as a solo on the notion of nostalgia that was created in a residency. I was inspired by my early childhood, when I was still living in France. Almost simultaneously, I wound up working on another solo that was about success/adulthood, even thought I had just finished school. It seemed obvious that the next step would be to talk about what I don't know yet, by which I mean aging (or the future, as you will). I've been working on this project for almost 3 years now and it has manifested as a 'show' without my realizing it - almost as if, unbeknownst to me, I had trained a wild animal." - Thomas Duret

Director/actor: Thomas Duret
Lighting design: Cédric Delorme-Bouchard
Set and prop design: Lisandre Coulombe
Movement consultant: Olivia Sofia
Creative consultant: Peter James
Dramaturgy/assistant director: Alexandre Lebeau
Produced by: héâtre du Baobab.
Diffused by: La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines.

The show premieres Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 8pm and continues Saturday, December 2nd at 8pm, Thursday, December 7th at 8pm, and Friday, December 8th at 8pm at La Chapelle, 3700 Saint-dominique, Montreal. Box Office: 514.843.7738 / Lachapelle.org.