Respond: this is what teenagers will be invited to do by artist Elkahna Talbi and her alter ego Queen Ka, a stage figure who has been involved in performance poetry for over fifteen years. Fears and convictions make up her view of the world. In reaction to Queen Ka's texts, the young authors will embrace their civic impulses and refine their critical thinking, so that evils and words fight on equal terms.

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The Scriptarium 2025

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

Nora, 24, discovers a photo of her grandmother taken in Oran, Algeria, after an explosion that seriously injured her. Before the gaze of this woman she barely knows, the weight of years of silence and absent gestures falls upon her. If part of her history escapes her, how can she determine who she is? Faced with war, who is Nora and how does she have the right to be concerned?

There women of Null Share

Sciences Po 101, Traité d'insubmission à l'usage du vrai monde marks Catherine Dorion's return to the stage with a documentary play on democracy, where she will share the stage with Vincent Massé-Gagné in a production by Alexandre Fecteau.
An interactive, immersive piece, where artists and the audience will explore together the ways in which the strength of the people could regain a footing beyond the feeling of helplessness, the ambient media overload and the agendas filled to the brim. The audience will be invited to vote and express themselves in all sorts of ways, they will play the role of Quebec society. Will they remain quietly seated in their seats? Will they rise up against the absurdity of what is happening on stage?

Science Po 101, Treatise on insubordination for use in the real world

Place des Arts

Grand Théâtre de Québec

Is French in Canada on life support? The first chapter of a vast documentary project that explores the state of the French fact in Canada, Oh! Canada delves into the heart of the explosive linguistic question through an investigation in the Maritime provinces and Ontario, passing through the Quebec nation, where the French-speaking majority resides.

With humor and lucidity, a statistical overview and a mapping of the most mined areas are deployed, including francization, immigration and the rise of anti-bilingualism.

Oh! Canada – Chapter 1 : Ballast of country

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv6htilWtI

The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

In the 4th century of the post-Google era, humans have deserted Earth and taken their places aboard the Globotrons, which are in fact formidable corporate ships named Dollarama, Couche-Tard, Québecor, Ashton, Yoplait and Midi-Six. While a sneaky and barbaric trade war opposes them, an unexpected attack shakes the one nicknamed the Prince, on his first day at the head of the family business.
Which builder dared to challenge the Prince? The end justifies the means , it seems, but the end of what? Of democracy? Of capitalism? Of grilled cheese? Who can really claim to offer good advice on the best way to reign?

The Prince

The child is forced into a youth protection program (DPJ) and, as best he can, tries to weave a life for himself through trauma, fear and the quest for love. Punctuated by the powerful testimonies of young adults who have recently left the DPJ placement system, Monstres takes the paths of fiction and takes us on a journey between nightmare and reality. A meeting where the grotesque and the dreamlike float, while the fourth wall falls.

Monsters

Jeanne vandalizes ads. Olivier dreams that his generation will be burned like a marshmallow. The state of the world weighs heavily on the two teenagers. But then a school election is organized as part of the "Week of the Future". Catalyzed by the hope that they can change things, Jeanne and Olivier face off in an election campaign filled with fiery speeches, collusion, ninja expeditions and damn unicorns.

The Weight of the Ants (2024)

There is no wind. In the bay of Aulis, ships loaded with thousands of soldiers await the signal to leave. Because without wind, it is impossible to set sail. Helen has been kidnapped. But the Greeks cry for vengeance, but the war, like time, is suspended. The oracles then summon King Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia if he wants the sails to fill. But since he does not want to give up power, Iphigenia resolves to advance towards death. However, her mother Clytemnestra stands up with all her strength against her husband's crime so that Iphigenia may live and the curse may finally cease to fall on the Atrides family.

Iphigenia

It was through the unusual line "Do you like ice cream, duck?" that the novelist Simon Roy, at the age of 10, discovered The Shining , Stanley Kubrick's famous film adapted from a novel by Stephen King, in which an aspiring writer becomes the caretaker of an inhospitable hotel. The work became obsessive to him, among other things because it allowed him to absorb the turmoil of his own genealogy, which he claims is macabre. Kubrick's My Red Life , in an astonishing mise en abyme, redraws new lines of meaning.

My Life Red Kubrick

Donkey Skin runs through the forest. What is she running away from? Who is she? In the middle of the darkness, a car wash lights up. It is the kingdom of her childhood. Her mother dies and, to escape her father's lustful gaze, Donkey Skin demands dresses that are unique in the world, as well as the sacrifice of her donkey, to which he resigns himself. She then flees to her Godmother, who subjects her to a series of trials and emancipatory rituals.

Donkey Skin

Year 2122. Oil has been gone since time immemorial. Only a handful of centenarians still remember the smell of gasoline and pool noodles disintegrating in the sun. Apparently vanished from the surface, plastic is nevertheless sought after by a few zealots, who believe that this material holds the secret to eternal life. Could the plastic continent be just another legend?

Plastic (2024)

He almost called himself Michelin, but his name is Michel-Maxime. From the family farm to the theatre stages, there is a gap that the man decided to cross, not without fear or self-mockery. Here he recounts the pivotal experiences of his life, from the countryside to St-Polycarpe, his colorful clan and his caring parents, to the feeling of knowing he is apart from others. An ode to belonging and difference, when rurality meets hypersensitivity.

Michelin

A rewrite of the novel  Un homme et son péché  by Claude-Henri Grignon, the play takes a new look at the original work by attempting to unfold the mechanisms of violence present between Donalda and Séraphin. Having become a ghost, Donalda retraces the traces of her relationship with Séraphin, while the latter busies himself enjoying his possessions, which gradually lead him to his downfall. As Donalda gradually seizes the power she never had during her lifetime, she pushes us to question the limits of forgiveness and the place of power in love.

A Little Guide to Emancipation for a Fallen Machine or How to Own Without Going Broke

Les 2 Mondes Theater

This personal and universal piece tells the story of a family, of decaying flesh and profound inner peace. Catherine dives into this performance to share a transformative and profound experience as she confronts death, gazes upon it calmly, and transcends existential anguish. BDSM is approached here as a realm of calm, vulnerability and safety

Screaming like a Madelaine

	
Three characters get lost in an unnamed city, drifting amidst anxieties and uncertainties in their nocturnal wandering. In the exploratory phase of this new piece which conjures the ambiance of an existential thriller, the artists delve into disorientation through the spatialization of sound. Influenced by the author's transgender identity, the project explores existential themes, causing identity to oscillate in a ballet of unsettling images and fleeting déjà-vus.

Exterior/night

Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui

	
In the form of a complex video and audio arrangement, this laboratory is a sensory representation of a descent into the depths of anxiety, depression, and an exploration of the border with suicide through the eyes of those who love us. In the surrounding darkness, indescribable forms mingle with people. However, a ray of light pierces the shadows, their pallid skin, their dark circles, and their tracksuits clinging to their bodies. An overwhelming silence, like an unbearable pressure vibrating the eardrums; drowning a little more each day; a beached whale.

Vivances

On stage, eight performers embody characters, all created at different times by Jasmine Dubé. Sometimes speaking directly to the audience, they rub shoulders in a fearless and playful back-and-forth and question the power relations between adults and children, raising family, political, and even… global issues along the way! With kindness and humor,  Jardins d'enfances  highlights the sensitivity of young people, their need to be listened to, loved, and their great desire for independence. 

Childhood Kindergarten

Maison Théâtre

This session, as part of the “Public Workshop” course, the Incontenables (the 2nd year student cohort in play) present Life and Death of the Boiteux King , a production directed by Isabelle Leblanc. This is the first public performance taking place within the bachelor’s degree in play.

Life and Death of the Lame King

University of Quebec in Montreal

Through an assembly of singular tableaux, Pommerat presents characters who are sometimes in love, sometimes betrayed. Passing bodies that undergo the indelible marks of love, which provoke altered states and blur the fine line between dream and reality. In a corridor of possibilities, situations follow one another and make this space a non-place. It is thanks to this mesh that the author allows doubt to hover over the characters' deep motivations or even over the emotions that truly inhabit them.

The Reunification of the Two Koreas

UQAM Higher School of Theatre

Faced with a world where social ties are disintegrating, how can we talk to each other, meet and be together? Carried by the words of Constance Debré and Tim Etchells, seven beings in search of meaning gather and wander in a place of waiting. They are inhabited by the desire to destroy everything, to reject the foundations of our world, but to do what next? How to inhabit the tremors of our time? And how to be as true as possible with oneself and with others? A moving tableau in seven voices, I'm Thirsty presents itself as a prayer to vulnerability, a search for authenticity and a revolt against pretense. 

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The Prince

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

Monsters

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

The Weight of the Ants (2...

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

Iphigenia

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

My Life Red Kubrick

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

Donkey Skin

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

Plastic (2024)

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

Michelin

Théâtre Denise-Pelletier

A Little Guide to Emancip...

UQAM Higher School of Theatre

Screaming like a Madelain...

OFFTA

Exterior/night

OFFTA

Vivances

OFFTA

Childhood Kindergarten

UQAM Higher School of Theatre

Life and Death of the Lam...

UQAM Higher School of Theatre

The Reunification of the ...

UQAM Higher School of Theatre

I Am Thirsty

UQAM Higher School of Theatre