Théâtre la Seizième presents Gabrielle Roy's La détresse et l'enchantement
Actor Marie-Thérèse Fortin brings the acclaimed French Canadian author to life in this show brought to Vancouver
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Marie-Thérèse Fortin. Photo by Yves Renaud
The autobiography of novelist Gabrielle Roy, La Détresse et l'Enchantement (Enchantment and Sorrow) has touched thousands of readers.
From her childhood in Manitoba to her passion for the theatre, which sent her to Europe before settling in Montreal at the cusp of the Second World War, life throbs within these pages with irrepressible authenticity. It travels between blinding light and abject blackness, between the fullness of joy and the pain of emptiness, between paralyzing uncertainties and the kind of revelations that transform an entire destiny.
To fully appreciate these words of exceptional humanity, Marie-Thérèse Fortin and writer-director Olivier Kemeid have created a theatrical montage of the memoirs of the Franco-Canadian author in La Détresse et l'Enchantement, by Trois Tristes Tigres, created with le Théâtre du Trident and le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde.
Presented in Vancouver by Théâtre la Seizième, the performance runs at York Theatre from April 21 to 23, in French. (English subtitles are on April 21 and 23; a Meet the Artists session in French happens on April 22.)
In a formidable and devastating performance, a great performer succeeds in bringing an exceptional writer back to life, making those who do not yet know her love her and awaking the memories in those who’ve long admired her.
More information is at Théâtre la Seizième.
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