September 30th at 2:30 pm in English
1er octobre à 14 h 30 en français >>>
DURATION – 90 MINUTES WITHOUT INTERMISSION
TARGET AUDIENCE – ADULT AND YOUTH 16 YEARS AND OLDER
In order to show our gratitude for the service of veterans and their families (who established the building on Botsford Street in which we operate) and to make theatre accessible to all, we are offering pay-what-you-will admission to both performances of Projet Monarques.
GENERAL ADMISSION
THE PLAY
On stage, five figures condense the voices of hundreds of veterans, military men and women and their loved ones: five lines of life like so many stories testifying to the daily life of these people, affected in different ways by operational stress injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
» Every year, a generation of migratory monarch butterflies is born, equipped to make a long and perilous journey that can reach several thousands of kilometers. An ordeal that will cost the life of many, but which will allow the following generations to be born and to live. It is this long journey – demanding, out of the ordinary, marked by elusive and transformative traumas that inspired the title of the Monarques Project. » – Angèle Séguin.
CAST
THE CHAPLAIN | Armed Forces Chaplain and veteran Sylvain Massé
THE MILITARY | Regular Force Woman and Veteran Emmanuelle Laroche
THE REGULAR FORCE MAN Sébastien Rajotte
THE RESERVER | Male Reserve Force Veteran Étienne D’Anjou
THE SPOUSE | She also speaks for her family Ann-Catherine Choquette
CREDITS
Co-authors : Angèle Séguin and Amélie Bergeron
Dramaturgical advisor : Paul Lefebvre
Translation : Harry Standjofski
Director : Amélie Bergeron
Assistant Director : Rose-Lilas Bastien-Turgeon
Lighting design : Andréanne Deschênes
Costume Design : Sébastien Dionne
Music design : Maxime Racicot
Production Manager : Andrée-Anne Pellerin
Technical director : Alexandre Paquette
Stage Manager : Rose-Lilas Bastien-Turgeon
Poster design : Frédérique Giguère
Cultural mediation : Angèle Séguin and Frédérique Giguère
Development agent : Marie-Soleil Beaupré-Savard
Communications Officer : Mégane Lortie
Media Relations Officer : Marie-Anne O’Reilly
Visual design : Strass
Photos : Jessica Garneau
Video capture : Pierre-Luc Racine and Matthew Gaines
Artistic Director : Angèle Séguin
General direction and co-artistic direction : Kristelle Holliday
Pivotal agent : Amélie Poulin
ORIGIN
Initiated in 2017 at the request of veterans and military families, Project Monarques is a bilingual pan-Canadian theatrical project that addresses the operational and post-traumatic stress injuries experienced by Veterans and military personnel, and the countless impacts on their lives and the lives of their loved ones. In order to meet them, Angèle Séguin uses the dramaturgical process of the Great Harvest of Words. Between February and
May 2021, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, the writing workshops made it possible to meet more than 200 veterans, military personnel and their loved ones in order to lift the veil on their realities and sufferings. They dared to break the silence to give us more than a thousand pages of strong and evocative words. It is their words that immersed the theatrical work, co-written by Angèle Séguin and Amélie Bergeron, with the contribution of Paul Lefebvre, dramaturgical advisor. The first public performance of PROJECT MONARQUES took place on November 8, 2022, at the Maurice O’Bready Hall of the Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke. More than a simple theatrical event, the show aims to initiate a real conversation between the civilian and military worlds.
CO-SPOKESPERSONS
“It really made me reflect. After 35 years we think we’ve seen it all, but it opened my eyes to realities I hadn’t even considered within my own family. All of a sudden I found myself thinking of what I had asked of them over the years.”
Life has its share of wounds. Each of us carries our own. Sometimes the scars have faded with time. Sometimes they are still visible to the naked eye. Sometimes they still take up all the space in the way we look at ourselves. They end up blurring the view and prevent you from living. One can then remain confined in the pain. If no one around you really understands it, this confinement becomes a prison. But if we can share it with others, open a breach in this pain, then it can become the ground for a new life
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