L’eau du bain

November 12, 2024

Whether on a frozen lake or in a long-term care facility, L’eau du bain travels to create, venturing outside the black box to explore new landscapes and characters. Based in Chelsea in the Outaouais region of Quebec, the company takes its raw material from reality and shapes it into enveloping universes in which fictional plots emerge and vanish. L’eau du bain’s installations and stage works enlist a theatrical and digital language in which sound and light are designed to connect with the inner self of the spectator, whether adult or child. With each creation, new rules of play are drawn up and new machines are invented. Their collective writing for the stage, which intertwines sound, play, light, and music from the outset, results in experimental theatre unlike anything else in Quebec and Canada. The company’s artists work with people of all ages and from all walks of life, embracing differences and breaking out of familiar territory. The experiences offered by L’eau du bain are more sensory than narrative, making them highly accessible.