INFRAROUGE Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and Theatre UBC
Brassard, as always, is a powerful, engaging presence. - Montreal Gazette
Feb 3 - 7, 2009 7:30pm
Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC
Running Time 90m
Post-show Talkback Feb 4 2009
Writer, Director, Performer
Marie Brassard Live Music & Sound Design
Alexander MacSween Lighting Design & Sound Design
Mikko Hynninen Dramaturg
Daniel Canty Set Design
Simon Guilbault 16mm Film
Karl Lemieux Assistant to the Set Designer
Julie Measroch Touring Agent
Menno Plukker Theatre Agent, Inc.Marie Brassard returns to Vancouver with a theatrical exploration of appearance and disappearance, of the double and of otherness. The city of Berlin, ectoplasms (vaporous emanations of the body supposedly visible tomediums) and the literary hoax involving JT LeRoy, a writer dreamed up by a woman hoping to get published, provide Brassard with material to reflect on art and creation, on the porous boundary between the creator and the resultant creature.
In collaboration with Finnish artist Mikko Hynninen and composer and sound designer Alexander MacSween, the singular and yet very plural Marie Brassard bring minds and the bodies that live therein to life, making their ghostly voices resonate, rendering the invisible visible.
In June 2001, Brassard created her first one-woman show, Jimmy créature de rêve, a black surrealistic comedy which was a huge success and has, since then, been presented in many cities in Europe, America and Australia. That same year, she founded the production company Infrarouge. She's also its artistic director. In 2003, she created a show hinging on the themes of real estate development, exploitation and friendship; entitled La Noirceur, it was followed by Peepshow, staged in English in Toronto in May 2005, and in French in Montréal in June of that year.
Coproduction credits:
Festival TransAmériques, La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Théatre Français du Centre National des Arts (Ottawa), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto). This project benefited from an artistic residency at Usine C and at Stadttheater Chur.
