L du DÉLUGE
Presented:
- From November 28 to December 6, 2022
La Chapelle - Contemporary Scenes
(7 performances).
Photo credit: Julie Artacho
A love torn from its source, a crisis, the ordeal of monsters, and the rhythms of an uprising. There will be only a chorus and a woman. One for her, one against her, one within her. We are invited to an epic struggle against being swallowed up. This epic piece, where bodies connect, transform, and multiply, is rooted in ancient cosmogonies, ancestors of our great founding myths, to draw parallels between an intimate and a collective reconstruction.
We witness the spectacle of our tensions and the confrontations of our inner multitude; as much in an autopsy of our dislocated depths as in a supernatural unfolding altered by the elixir of the gods.
Team
Performers
Rasili Botz, Claudia Chan Tak, Laura Côté-Bilodeau, Sarah Desjeunes, Leila Donabelle Kaze, Simon Fournier, Charbel Hachem, Karina Iraola, Marie-Pier Labrecque, Janie Lapierre, Mireille Metellus, Gabrielle Poulin
Stand-in
Clara Prieur, Gabrielle Surprenant-Lacasse
Author, co-stage director
Gabriel Léger-Savard
Choregrapher, co-stage director
Marilyn Daoust
Dramaturgical support
Zaynê Akyol, Andréane Roy
Stage Management Assistant
Ariane Brière
Lights
Joëlle LeBlanc
Costumes and props
Audrée Juteau Lewka
Set
Nadine Jaafar
Music
Joël Lavoie
A cappella Song Arrangements
Showan Tavakol
Technical Director
Guillaume Lafontaine-Moisan
Production manager
Pier-Luc Legault
Vocal coach
Mykalle Bielinski
Skates coach
Valérie Benoît
Video teaser
Robin Pineda Gould
Social medias
Kim Benoît-Lapointe
Photo credit: David Wong
Photo credit: David Wong
Photo credit: David Wong
Photo credit: David Wong
L du Déluge is a three-act play whose central figure is Ariadne, broken by the expulsion of her love, Mazlum, from the city-state. Throughout this play, structured around the grief of lost love, we witness her reconstruction through a purge and liberation from a monstrous, mythological world that threatens to consume her. The state of the world at the beginning of her story is an extrapolation of the direction it is already taking. Is it a dystopia? The city is a barricaded city-state, ruled by an oligarchy. The rest of the earth is ravaged by fire and bloodshed, uninhabitable due to drought, pollution, flooding, and perpetual conflict. Illegals are hunted down, fear is the daily bread, and all that remains for the population are work, psychotropic drugs, and harmless entertainment. In the end, Ariadne—trapped in this city and in the process of personal reconstruction—will unleash the flood.
All the characters, except Ariadne, are portrayed by the chorus members. They represent archetypes and stereotypes drawn from a phantasmagoria inspired by the great founding myths of ancient cosmogonies, the ancestors of our civilization. Ariadne's epic journey is intended to reflect her inner turmoil; a transitional moment; an imperative for change; but also a means of altering humanity's destiny. Thus, the symbolic and emotional weight, experienced and embodied by the entire chorus, is interwoven in an allegory of our collective future.
This play departs from conventional dramatic conventions, written to foster the polyphony of a chorus. Its prose creates spaces where voices and bodies intersect, overlap, and multiply. The chorus is traversed by a multitude of perspectives, states, and archetypes, becoming truly polymorphic. The chorus carries the musicality and rhythm of both words and bodies. Underutilized today, it is nonetheless a powerful means of creating sensations and emotions, generating energy and a unique stage experience.
The L du Déluge choir brings together several generations of performers (dancers and actors): from the next generation, the most experienced, seniors - and represents several cultural and sexual identities; thus illustrating the beauty of the world's multitude.
Thanks
A heartfelt thank you to all the people already listed in the credits and to: Christian Fortin, Audrey Leblanc, Félix-Antoine Boutin, Mykalle Bielinski, Guillaume Duval, Antoine Beaudoin-Gentes, Jérémie Desbiens, Daphnée Côté-Hallé, Maxime Isabelle, Gabriel Favreau, Gino Latendresse, the National Theatre School of Canada, Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Olivier Toutiras, Joanne Germain and the entire team at La Chapelle.
Thanks to the invaluable financial support of:
