Embrasse was first performed on September 21, 2021 at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal, under the artistic direction of Lorraine Pintal, in co-production with Centaur Theatre Company. The production was directed by Eda Holmes, assisted by stage manager Elaine Normandeau. It featured the same creative team as this production with the following cast:
Hugo Lessard: Théodore Pellerin
Béatrice Lessard: Anne-Marie Cadieux
Maryse Gauthier: Alice Pascual
Sergeant Régis: Anglesh Major
Yves Saint Laurent: Yves Jacques
Show Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
Centaur Theatre Company is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and engages professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the terms of the jointly negotiated Canadian Theatre Agreement. Centaur Theatre Company performs under the auspices of the Centaur Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Please note that the following cast change has taken place for this performance:
Amelia Sargisson as Maryse
Previously at Centaur: All I Want for Christmas, Paradise Lost (META nomination), The 39 Steps (META nomination), The Madonna Painter. Elsewhere: Recently: Witness for the Prosecution (Drayton); Stag & Doe (1000 Islands). Upcoming: The Last Wife (MTC); Ismène (Centaur/Théâtre Double signe). Amelia is an actor, writer, director and coach born and raised in Montreal. Favourite credits include: The Wolves (META win), If We Were Birds (META nomination), down from heaven (Cartes Premières Best Actress) (Imago); Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear (Canadian Stage SIHP); La Bête, Amadeus (TIFT); The Importance of Being Earnest (Citadel); Red Velvet (Dora nomination), The Watershed, Seeds (Crow’s); Paradise Lost, Hamlet 911, Othello, The Front Page, The Comedy of Errors (Stratford); and multiple seasons with Repercussion Theatre. She is the voice and mocap actor for Nora in the hit video game, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. TV credits include: The Boys, Murdoch Mysteries, and See. She has directed and narrated multiple audiobooks for Penguin Random House Canada, and teaches regularly at the National Theatre School.
MichelMarc Bouchard A Note From the Playwright
Finally, after so many delays and postponements, it is thanks to the unwavering tenacity of the incomparable Eda Holmes, and the brilliance of a remarkable cast, that we are delighted to present Kisses Deep, in Linda Gaboriau's sensitive and luminous translation.
The author slips into the folds of his characters' costumes, adopting the essential functions of clothing: to seduce, to provoke, to disappear. Writing this work awakened buried memories, sometimes painful, but which paved the way for a form of reconciliation. I am convinced that forgiveness is a manifestation of love, and that the act of creating is one of its most powerful incarnations.
Thank you for supporting the Centaur, this great Montreal theatre.
Michel Marc Bouchard, Playwright
Linda Gaboriau A Note From the Translator
In Kisses Deep, Béatrice’s son Hugo has taken to kissing people in moments of intense emotion. And the emotions his kisses awaken in the people he kisses are complex, triggering both fond memories and unspoken longings. To grasp the deeper meaning of what the characters say to each other, the translator has to probe their mysterious motives and ambivalent reactions. What we discover can be as unexpected as it is disturbing.
Finding the right title is always a challenge. Embrasse, Michel Marc Bouchard’s title in the original French, is unusual, enigmatic: the undetermined tense of the verb, embrasser, to kiss or to hug. Is it the third person singular or the familiar imperative? Leonard Cohen was my neighbour and friend for thirty years. Needless to say, I am a fan and have all his albums. Out of nowhere, the title of his song, “A Thousand Kisses Deep”, came to me because it takes us to the same mysterious place.
Bon spectacle!
Linda Gaboriau, Translator
A Note From the Director EdaHolmes
“It’s my dream, Ma! My dream!” – Hugo
The relationship we have with our parents plays a huge role in the way our dreams take shape. Sometimes parents impose a dream on their children, but children often have dreams that expand beyond the world of their parents. For Hugo, the main character in Kisses Deep, his dream is sparked by his mother’s passion for beautiful fabric but evolves into an escape plan from the stifling insularity of the small town where he has grown up, the ugly relationship between his parents, and his own coming-of-age anxieties.
Hugo’s mother Béatrice is a complex character from whom he inherits his dreams of high fashion, but because of her own all-too-human flaws, she ends up causing her son a great deal of pain. Writing about Kisses Deep, playwright Michel Marc Bouchard asks what drives us to transform pain into poetry? The mother-son drama at the heart of the play ultimately gives life to the idea, threaded throughout Michel Marc’s work (and inspired by his relationship with his own mother), that artistic creation can assuage pain and inspire forgiveness as an act of love.
The creation of art always begins with a dream. Our ability to imagine something before it exists together with our capacity for forgiveness are the most powerful aspects of our collective humanity. This play is a tribute to the transformative power of art and forgiveness – and it all starts with a young man’s dream.
Eda Holmes, Director
Michel Marc Bouchard
Playwright
Playwright, screenwriter, librettist, and professor Michel Marc Bouchard was born on February 2, 1958, in Saint-Cœur de Marie (Alma) on Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada. His father, René Bouchard, a farmer and butcher, married his mother Madeleine Fleury, a schoolteacher, in 1954. He had four sisters, Luce, Josée (who died in 1964), Caroline, and Claudine. He attended elementary school in his native village. From 1970 to 1973, he continued his studies at the Séminaire Marie-Reine du Clergé in Métabetchouan, Lac Saint-Jean, whose library now bears his name.
In 1975, he wrote and staged Scandale, his first play, at the Salle Bellevue in Saint-Henri de Taillon, Lac Saint-Jean. He then went on to study tourism at the Cégep de Matane in Gaspésie. It was there that he created the theater troupe La Séance and wrote and staged several plays that immediately attracted attention at various college and national festivals. He was also awarded the Bourse d'Excellence du Prêt d'honneur by the Société Saint-Jean Baptiste. It was at the University of Ottawa's theater department that he met Tibor Egervari, Danièle Zana, Isabelle Cauchy, and Dominique Lafon, who would be his mentor for many years.
He completed his studies at the Palmares du Doyen. He worked as an actor, host, and writer with various theatre companies in French Ontario (the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, La Vieille 17, and the Théâtre de la Corvée, which became the Théâtre du Trillium under his direction (1988-90)). He was an actor for the Atelier du Centre national des arts company. His play La Contre-Nature by Chrysippe Tanguay, an ecologist, was produced there and directed by Yves Desgagnés (1982). André Brassard, a famous director, then offered to stage it in Montreal at the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui (1983). Michel Marc Bouchard's arrival on the Montreal scene was decisive for the rest of his career.
He has written numerous plays that have been translated and performed worldwide. Les Feluettes, Les Muses orphelines, L'Histoire de l'oie, Le Voyage du Couronnement, Le Chemin des passes-dangereuses, Tom à la ferme, Christine, la Reine-garçon, La Divine illusion, La Nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé and Embrasse remain his best-known works.
His works have been performed in more than 50 countries and to date, there have been nearly 500 productions in some 20 languages.
Linda Gaboriau
Translation
In her impressive career of literary translation spanning decades, Linda Gaboriau has translated some 140 plays and novels. Her translations of plays by Michel Marc Bouchard, Normand Chaurette and Michel Tremblay have garnered awards in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver; in 2014, Tom at the Farm, her translation of Bouchard’s Tom à la ferme, won the Lambda Literary Award for Drama in New York; she has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in the French-to-English Translation category, in 1999 for Daniel Danis's Stone and Ashes (Cendres de cailloux), in 2010 for Wajdi Mouawad's Forests (Forêts) and in 2019 for Mouawad's Birds of a Kind (Tous des oiseaux).
Linda has also worked as a broadcast journalist and theatre critic, notably for CBC and Radio Canada and The Montreal Gazette, as a dramaturge for Centre des auteurs dramatiques and Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, and she was the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. For her outstanding contributions to Canadian literature, particularly through her translations of Quebec theatre and fiction, she was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2015, an officer of the Ordre national du Québec in 2023 and a Compagne de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2024.
Eda Holmes Director
Eda has been the Artistic and Executive Director of Centaur Theatre in Montréal since 2017. Her productions of The 39 Steps, The Last Wife, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, and Sakura - After Chekhov are among the many successful offerings of her tenure. She has also crossed the traditional language barrier in Montréal to direct the world premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard’s Embrasse in French at le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. She was the Associate Artistic Director at the Shaw Festival from 2010-2017, where she directed The Apple Cart, The Devil’s Disciple, Grand Hotel, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Arcadia, among others, all of which garnered critical acclaim in both Canada and the United States. She works regularly with the Orchestre Classique de Montréal and directed chamber versions of Carmen and As One. She is currently working as a dance dramaturge with American choreographer Val Caniparoli on a new production of Coppelia for the National Ballet of Canada. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and teaches there regularly as well as at Toronto Metropolitan University and George Brown Theatre School. Prior to becoming a director, Holmes was a soloist with San Francisco Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet and William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet.
Lyndz Dantiste “Sgt.
Régis”
A versatile and committed artist, Lyndz Dantiste is a graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. On television, he has appeared in shows such as Toute la vie, Une autre histoire, Une affaire criminelle 2, and, more recently, he captured the imagination of young audiences in LescomptinesdeMaryse.
He has had the opportunity to tread the boards of Montreal's largest theatres in many notable plays, including M'appelle Mohamed Ali, Vous êtes animal, Othello, and most recently, Mommy, le retour. In 2023, he won the Actor of the Year – Theatre award at the Gala Dynastie, and in 2025, he was the recipient of TNM's Olivier Reichenbach Award. Lyndz also lends his voice to numerous series and film characters as a voice actor (dubber).
Co-founder of the Théâtre de la Sentinelle, Co-Artistic Director of the 23rd Festival du Jamais Lu, and currently a Board Member of the Théâtre Duceppe, Lyndz is involved in several spheres of the artistic world to advocate for greater representation of racialized individuals on stage.
Yves
Jacques
“Yves Saint Laurent”
Yves Jacques’ career has led him from his native Quebec City to Montreal and Paris, where he’s been acting ever since, both on-stage and on-screen. He has worked with French-Canadian director Denys Arcand on five films, including The Decline of the American Empire, Jesus of Montreal, and The Barbarian Invasions; and with French director Claude Miller on seven films, including La Chambre des magiciennes, La petite Lily, and Voyez comme ils dansent. On stage, he has toured worldwide with Robert Lepage’s plays The Far Side of the Moon and The Andersen Project. His work with Lepage introduced him to Luc Bondy, the late Director of the Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris, who offered him the chance to act alongside Isabelle Huppert in Marivaux’s Les fausses confidences. Other directors with whom Yves has had the privilege to work include Xavier Dolan (Laurence Anyways), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Belles Familles), Olivier Dahan (Grace of Monaco), and Martin Scorsese (The Aviator). In 2001, Yves was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France, and in 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his achievements in theatre, television, and film, both in Canada and abroad.
Leni Parker “Béatrice”
Leni Parker is a Montreal-based Canadian actor, with a career spanning 39 years. Some of her most notable roles in theatre include her recent run of Thy Woman’s Weeds at Centaur Theatre (recipient of the METAs awards for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble) and the production of ROME, where she played Volumnia in Coriolanus (USINE C/NAC). Other notable work: her onewoman show, The Blonde, The Brunette, and The Vengeful Redhead (Hudson Village Theatre/Theatre Lac Brome; META nominee for Outstanding Lead Actor); her role as Patti Smith in Parce que la nuit (Espace GO/NAC); Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar (Repercussion Theatre); Elizabeth in Elizabeth Rex (Segal Centre); Joyce in Top Girls (Segal Centre; META for Outstanding Lead Actor); Luciana in TheComedyofErrors (Centaur Theatre/NAC), and many more.
Leni was a member of the company of Pigeons International Theatre from 1987 to 1997, touring extensively in Europe and Canada. In film and TV, she has been seen in Transformers; Rise of the Beasts, Street Legal, Barkskins, and My Salinger Year. For four years, she played Da’an in Earth: Final Conflict. Next she will be seen in TheSlack, directed by Vanessa King for Bell Media.
Leni taught for two years at the National Theatre of Canada, leading the secondyear acting cohort in their “Realism in Canadian Theatre” scene study project. Last summer, she attended HB Studio’s Teacher Training course in New York City. She has also taught at Concordia University in the Theatre Department and currently facilitates workshops and scene studies at La Porte Rouge.
Alice Pascual
“Maryse”
A 2009 graduate of the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal, Alice Pascual has participated in more than twenty theatrical productions. In the winter of 2024, she played Célimène in Le Misanthrope, directed by Florent Siaud at TNM. In recent years, she has appeared in ROME (Brigitte Haentjens), Embrasse (Eda Holmes), Sang (Brigitte Haentjens), Tristesse animal noir (Claude Poissant), Ce moment-là (Denis Bernard), Fredy (Marc Beaupré), Terminus (Michel Monty), Onnebadinepasavecl'amour (Claude Poissant), and J'accuse (Sylvain Bélanger). In 2018-2020, she took to the stage at Prospero in a solo performance in Madame Catherine prépare sa classe de troisième à l’irrémédiable, directed byJonLachlanStewart.
On the small screen, Alice plays Myriam in the series Avantlecrash (Ici télé) and Isabela in Lescavaliers (Club Illico). She also appears in the series Inspirez Expirez, La Faille, Épidémie, Trop, Prémonitions, and several others. She can also be seen in the films Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan) and Noémie dit oui (Geneviève Albert).
Kevin Raymond “Hugo”
Kevin Raymond is a professional actor and voice artist with over ten years of experience in film, television, theatre, and dubbing. A graduate of Dawson College’s Professional Theatre Program, he began his career in 2012 as a teenager and has workedsteadilysince.Fullybilingual,heworksinbothFrench andEnglishacrossawiderangeofprojects.
Hisscreencreditsinclude X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Stonewall, Street Legal, and 30 Vies. He recently playedaprincipalroleintheRadio-Canadadrama Mea Culpa, earningrecognitionforhisauthenticandemotionallygrounded performance.
On stage, Kevin has appeared in major Montreal productions such as Next to Normal (Gabe) and A Chorus Line (Paul), wherehisvocalrangeasatenoranddepthasan actorwerehighlighted.
Michael Gianfrancesco Set Design
Michael’s set and costume designs for theatre, musical theatre, opera and dance have been seen across Canada, in EuropeandtheUS.Recentproductionsincludethesetdesign for Chicago at the Stratford Festival and set and costume design for the world premiere of Jasper for Yonder Window at the Signature Theatre in New York City. He has designed for Shaw Festival, National Ballet of Canada, Ex Machina, Canadian Opera Company, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Opera Atelier, Rossini Festival - Italy, Canadian Stage Company, National Arts Centre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Segal Centre, Theatre Calgary, The Grand Theatre and Tarragon Theatre, among others. Michael’s set design for Cabaret directed by Peter Hinton at the Shaw Festival was featured at the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space in 2015. michaelgianfrancesco.com
Sébastien Dionne Costume
Design
With a degree in scenography from Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec (Canada, 2007), Sébastien Dionne quickly distinguished himself in costume design. He has since designed costumes for over 75 productions for theatre, circus, opera, contemporary dance, cinema, musicals and many special events.
His artistic signature is characterized by his Haute Coutureinspired approach with a strong interest in period costumes. He’s especially known for his creations for major classical and contemporary productions as well as his renewed collaboration with Robert Lepage, Icelandic Opera and Cirque du Soleil. Over the years, his work has been rewarded 5 times over 11 nominations by the Prix d’excellence des arts et de la culture de Québec / Les Prix Théâtre for Best Costume Design.
Étienne Boucher
Lighting Design
Highly sought-after for his lighting designs across theatre, dance, musical theatre, opera, and circus, Étienne Boucher continually reinvents his luminous syntax. From the very beginning of his career, his work stood out, earning the attention of peers and critics alike. Among his most significant projects are the lighting design for Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Metropolitan Opera, directed by Robert Lepage, as well as Another Brick in the Wall, based on the work of Roger Waters and directed by Dominic Champagne (Opéra de Montréal, Cincinnati Opera, and Meridian Hall, Toronto). In 2024, Etienne Boucher designed the lighting for the opera The Nightingale and Other Short Fables (dir. Robert Lepage), presented in Adelaide, Australia. In the world of circus arts, he created the lighting for several Cirque du Soleil productions, including Totem (2010), a touring Big Top show, and X-Land of Fantasy, presents in Hangzhou, China (2019). In Trois-Rivières, he designed the lighting for Tout écartillé, Hommage à Robert Charlebois (2016) et Stone, Hommage à Luc Plamondon (2017). He also joined the creation of Éclat, produced by Les 7 doigts, presented in 2023 at the Manoir Richelieu, Big Top for La Féérie de Charlevoix. In 2024, continuing his collaboration with Les 7 doigts, he contributed to the immersive exhibition Riopelle Grandeur Nature. In 2023, he designed the lighting for Projet Polytechnique at the TNM. His work was also showcased in Les Boys, presented at Théâtre du VieuxTerrebonne in 2025. In 2025, he signed the lighting design for Les Incouchables: Hommage à Daniel Bélanger, presented at the Cogeco Amphitheatre in Trois-Rivières. He is also involved in the 2025 Osaka World Expo in Japan. After Docteure at Théâtre Jean-Duceppe and Faire la mort at Théâtre Espace Go, La Folie (working title) Hommage à Daniel Bélanger marks his third collaboration with director Marie-Ève Milot.
Alexander McSween Music & Sound Design
Composer, musician and sound designer Alexander MacSween has participated in numerous dance, theatre and film projects, including productions by Marie Brassard, Daniel Brooks, PaulAndré Fortier, François Girard, Brigitte Haentjens, Joe, Jack & John, Robert Lepage, José Navas, Le Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental, Théâtre de Création UBU, and The Stratford Festival. Alexander is also a drummer and multiinstrumentalist, playing rock, electronic, and improvised music. Notable groups have included Bionic, Foodsoon, and The Nils. His solo performances and sound installations have been heard at MUTEK, Le Mois-Multi, CitySonic and The Montreal International Jazz Festival. Alexander teaches sound design at l’Université de Québec à Montréal, and was a finalist for the 2018 Siminovitch Prize for theatre design.
Thomas Payette
Video
Design
Thomas Payette is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada's production program. In 2015, he co-founded mirari, a multidisciplinary creative studio that designs and produces immersive experiences. Thomas has served as creative director for several works and installations in public spaces, in addition to collaborating on video and multimedia design with creators such as Robert Lepage, Sylvain Émard, Guillaume Côté, Virginie Brunelle, and Martin Messier, as well as with renowned institutions such as the TNM and the National Ballet of Canada. He is also the creative director of the Canada Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025.
Thomas is a member of the board of directors of XN Québec and also teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Melanie St-Jacques Stage
Manager
MelaniehasenjoyedacareerasaStageManagerfornearly25 years. Her Centaur credits include Thy Woman’s Weeds, King Dave, At the Beginning of Time, The Last Wife, On This Day, The Book of Bob, Innocence Lost (NAC co-pro), In Absentia, Schwartz’s: The Musical, Don Quixote, Michel and Ti Jean, Doubt, The Carpenter, The Caretaker, Condoville, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Life After George, Proof, Copenhagen, “Art” and Dinner With Friends. Over the years she has also worked at the Segal Centre, Geordie Productions, Imago, Teesri Duniya, Theatre Lac Brome, Hudson Village Theatre, as well as RMTC & MTYP (Winnipeg), Neptune Theatre (Halifax), Citadel (Edmonton), and the NAC (Ottawa). Melanie also very much enjoys teaching and coaching Stage Management at the NationalTheatreSchoolofCanada.
Elyse Quesnel Assistant Stage Manager
Elyse (She/Her) is a Montreal-based stage manager and assistant stage manager. Recent assistant stage management credits include: For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, At the Beginning of Time, Playing with Fire (Centaur Theatre), April Fools, Indecent, Top Girls (Segal Centre), The Snow Queen (Theatre New Brunswick). Most recent stage management credits include: Three Women of Swatow (Centaur Theatre), Diggers (Black Theatre Workshop), Cymbeline (Repercussion Theatre), Meet Me (LATP/Teesri Duniya Theatre), Extra/ Beautiful / U, Omi Mouna (Infinitheatre), The Sound Inside, Between Riverside and Crazy, Category E, Orphans (Coal Mine Theatre), Twelfth Night, As You Like It and The Taming of the Shrew (SLSF). She has been awarded the following: Shaw Festival Rookie of the Year Award (Cricket Team - 2015), PamelaMontgomeryAward(JohnAbbottCollege-2013).
Karine Cusson
Head of Props
After completing her set design degree at l’UQAM, Karine Cusson assisted numerous designers in their scenographic creations. Fascinated by the stories told by objects, she has focused since 2013 on prop design and prop building, working in both English theatre (Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Centaur Theatre, Stratford Festival) and French theatre (Théâtre du Rideau Vert, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Théâtre du Quat’sous, Duceppe, etc.). She was Head Sculptor for La Falla at La Tohu for eight years and the Head of Props at the Segal for seven seasons. Her work has recently been seen in productions such as Peter Pan, Tootsie!, Moi & L’Autre, Silence, on tourne!, Hockey Sweater, Pétrole, and more.
Kevin Raymond, Photograph by Andrée Lanthier
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