≈ 50 minutes · No intermission
Keeper of Words
This major Quebec poet has devoted her life to the words that inspire us, to the literature that awakens us, always striving to reveal through words the things hiding in plain sight. Louise Dupré has published more than a dozen books of poetry, including La main hantée (2016), which won the Governor General’s Literary Award. She is also a novelist (La memoria, L’album multicolore), has taught at UQAM, and wrote the play Tout comme elle (2006), which was directed by Brigitte Haentjens and performed by a cast of 50 actresses.
Mender of Solitudes
A unifying force on the Franco-Ontarian cultural scene, André Perrier is accomplished in several theatrical professions. He is an actor and playwright, but above all a director: he has staged numerous plays, including the French-language adaptation of Pamela Gien’s The Syringa Tree (Le lilas africain, 2019). Among his many awards is a 2000 Masque for Du pépin à la fissure, which brought the words of the sublime poet Patrice Desbiens to the stage. From 1998 to 2004, he was the artistic director of Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury. He currently teaches at the University of Ottawa, and since 1990, has been the director of Théâtre Triangle Vital.