Our bodies and souls, solicited by violence, resistance, persistence.
By time itself.
Armed with resilience; the defence to convince ourselves and others simultaneously.
Because sometimes, a smile can save our life.
It can save our morals.
So rarely seen the variance between the two.
Armored, standing at the front lines of battle or the foreground of our lives.
A piece that explores the human body, objects, shadows, lighting and the site itself where it’s presented, through the connection of similarities between extreme situations; amidst the military world and our own personal lives, between the battlefield and the family kitchen.
“Scenes with a great poetic strength”
Alain-Martin Richard, Le Devoir
“It’s absolutely amazing (…) It really is an absolutely amazing and intense experience. Moments of a great dramatic force, extremely touching. A remarkable work, a very strong evocation.”
Paule Therrien, Radio-Canada
“One of the strengths of the work is the way Vicky Côté plays with the mutltiplicity and unity, privacy and publicness, individuality and collectivity. In a set of variations where the actors now agree, now collide, like in classical theater, they mingle in an undistinguishable body as in the performance.
A major work that you can’t miss for the magnificent scenes, from the mud to the shadows on a wall, projected as inside a nightmare; for the strength of the message that, in a century of insignificant communications, knows how to regain the irreducible and powerful word of myth.
Is the kind of theatre that rips your soul open without anaesthetic. And that’s what makes Vicky Côté’s one of the most relevant proposals of these days”
Jean-Pierre Vidal, Revue d’Art Zone Occupée
« The director, Vicky Côté, doesn’t spare her actors: it is a very physical work. Mistreated, crawling in the dust, splashed, lifting and throwing heavy loads, the four soldiers fill up the scene. The action takes over the ground, the walls facing the public are brilliantly used. Sometimes as a screen for light and shadow games, sometimes as the enemy borderline from where they are attacked. »
Myriam Gauthier, Le Quotidien
Created & directed by
Vicky Côté
Actors
Éric Chalifour, Vicky Côté, Guylaine Rivard, Patrick Simard
Sound designer
Nicolas Letarte
Scenography
Mylène Leboeuf-Gagné
Lighting designer
Vicky Côté
On the road…
Building 1903, Pulperie of Chicoutimi (2015)
Festival de théâtre de rue de Lachine, Montreal (2015)
Work in progess
Bogota, Colombie (2013)
Carrefour international de théâtre de Québec (2014)
Photo credit
Sophie Gagnon-Bergeron
