La grande mascarade
Copresented with La Chapelle
Join us for the biggest mask show of the decade. Come and meet your funniest characters, such as Harlequin, Sganarelle and Pantalon! Together on stage at last! What’s more… it’s cheap! Everything is allowed! Bring your tomatoes!
Description
The curtain rises, like a loud cry that tears through the night on rue St-Dominique. Two acrobats in tights arrive on stage, with masks on their faces, and pirouettes and confetti in their arsenal! The audience is invited to witness a colourful ceremony with characters as far as the eye can see! Get your tomatoes ready, because it won’t always be jolly. The actors are at risk. They lack support. Are you ready to discover the highs and lows of acting? Will they be able to hold onto the audience’s good will? After more than eight years of practicing in a room with nylon stockings on their heads, these two acrobats have finally opened the doors to this work to offer you, as humbly as possible, the biggest masked spectacle of the decade.
Credits
- Ideators, staging and interpreters
- Étienne Lou
Gabriel-Antoine Roy
- Lighting design
- Joëlle Leblanc
- Scenography
- Geneviève Feuillard
- Assistance in staging and management
- Alexie Pommier
- Technical direction
- Juliette Papineau
- Production management
- Rachel Locas
Alexie Pommier
- Artistic advisor
- Nicolas Cantin
Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé
- Creative residencies
- LA SERRE – arts vivants + La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines + Patro Villeray + Autres Formes
- Support
- Robert Lepage
- A special thank you to Alexis Boulay and Fabien Marcil for their involvement in the project.
Media
Étienne Lou
Trained at the National Theatre School of Canada, Étienne Lou is a dancer and actor. A pioneer of Canadian krump, he was part of the first krump group in the country, the Bzerk Squad and competed in Quebec and Ontario. He was also part of the Montreal popping community and taught at the Centre communautaire de la Côte-des-Neiges. In this discipline, he has competed in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. Étienne also shines in the theatre. In 2018, Étienne performed at the Théâtre de la Colline, Paris, in the play Notre innocence, by none other than Wajdi Mouawad. In 2021, he was part of the cast of Philippe Boutin’s theatrical happening: The Rise of the Bling Bling. And he played in Pierre Lefebvre’s punchy text Le virus et le Preie presented at the TransAmérique festival. This season, he is in two shows at the théâtre Duceppe: Showtime by the comedy trio Projet Bocal and Le Projet Riopelle, directed by Robert Lepage.
Gabriel-Antoine Roy
A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in acting, Gabriel-Antoine Roy is a young performer who works in theatre and also in dance. He has furthered his career by participating in several dance and acting intensives (cinema, stage presence, puppetry, mask and clown work). This has allowed him to rub shoulders with various artists such as Nicolas Cantin, Peter James, Mélanie Pilon, Peter Schumann, 7Starr, Stéphane Crête and Frédérick Gravel. Gabriel-Antoine has performed in several creations, notably Tu es Nora by Hugo Fréjabise, Guédailles by Catherine Jeanne-d’Arc and Oiseaux by Marie-Christine Lee-Hû. You will have seen him in the theatre with Christian Lapointe in Les Beaux-Dimanches, at the Théâtre de La Chapelle, in Anne-Sophie Rouleau’s Album de finissant tour. He is currently on tour with Jacques Poulin-Denis’ ON/OFF project. More recently, he played the role of The Other in the show On the Appearance of Bones in the Body by the company Création dans la chambre. He also appears in the next feature film by Ariane Louis-Seize.
With
Étienne Lou
Gabriel-Antoine Roy
