Tarragon & Studio 180 to Present YOU WILL REMEMBER ME
By: Tyler Peterson Feb. 18, 2016
How will you be remembered? How will you choose to remember those you love? As the aging patriarch of a modern family - a university professor, political and intellectual force, and long-time sovereigntist - suffers from dementia, the people who love him struggle to make room in their lives for his care.
The play was premiered at Montreal's Théâtre la Licorne in February 2014 in French.
R.H Thomson, one of Canada's most acclaimed leading actors for the past 30 years, is Edouard, stricken with the early stages of Alzheimer's while only in his sixties. Last seen on the Tarragon stage in No Great Mischief, he has created many arts/history/education projects, including The World Remembers 1914-1918/Le monde se souvient 1914-1918, a multilingual, international WWI Centenary project.
The award-winning Nancy Palk is his wife Madeleine. A founding member at Soulpepper Theatre, Palk was seen this season in Tarragon's Wormwood and has been performing for Tarragon since she first came to Toronto in 1980.
Their journalist daughter Isabelle is played by Kimwun Perehinec, a co-founder of Studio 180 who has been seen in its productions of Clybourne Park, Our Class, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, The Laramie Project and more.
Studio 180 co-founder Mark McGrinder is Isabelle's new live-in boyfriend Patrick. McGrinder has been seen in Studio 180's Clybourne Park, The Normal Heart, Our Class, Stuff Happens, The Laramie Project and more.
Director Joel Greenberg is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Studio 180. He is a Chalmers and Dora Award-winning playwright and director who has directed and/or choreographed more than 100 professional productions across Canada in the past 40 years. For Studio 180 he has directed and co-produced The Laramie Project, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Stuff Happens, Blackbird, Our Class, The Normal Heart, Clybourne Park and more. He taught at Humber College Theatre School from 1984 to 1989 and at the University of Waterloo from 1991 to 2014, also serving as the chair of each theatre department (at Humber for five years, and UW for nine). This is his Tarragon debut.
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, François Archambault has written more than 20 plays, including 15 Seconds and The Leisure Society. His works have been translated into numerous languages and staged all around the world. This is the first play of his presented by either Tarragon or Studio 180. Tu te souviendras de moi (You Will Remember Me) was written while in residence with Théâtre de la Manufacture in 2014 and has received unparalleled success and praise. In 2014, the play was among the Governor General's Literary Award contenders, and received the prestigious Prix Michel-Tremblay.
Bobby Theodore has translated over twenty plays from French to English. His translation of François Archambault's You Will Remember Me premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects and won a Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play. He is the resident dramaturg and host of the Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac. In March, Soulpepper is staging his translation of Albert Camus' The Just.
Set, costume and projection design is by Denyse Karn, lighting design is by Kimberly Purtell, and sound design is by Verne Good. The stage manager is Laura Baxter.
Tarragon Theatre, in co-production with Studio 180 Theatre, presents the Toronto premiere of You Will Remember Me Written by François Archambault Translated by Bobby Theodore Directed by Joel Greenberg
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