A Word From The Aristic and Executive Director

Good evening,

Our Dialogue season is well underway with several elucidating discussions rich with fascinating topics and questions. It’s awesome!

Tonight’s show highlights the artist Eric Plamondon, who proposed Robert Chesley’s play to us about two years ago. He wanted to translate it, adapt it and direct it to offer to TCM audiences.

This play cannot leave us indifferent. It can even be provocative, I would say just like Eric’s artistic endeavours. It’s a show that pushes boundaries, that highlights a dark chapter of humanity, that of AIDS in the 80s. A historical moment which was able to elucidate and confront us with our prejudices, hatred, incomprehension towards a community that has become a valve for the darkness that can inhabit us.

My role as artistic director, as I see it, is to accompany and support artists in their creative process so that they flourish and fully develop their art. To also give them the opportunity to enter into communion with audiences and to speak, to shout, to cry, to laugh their truths and their worldviews to experience a great act of sharing and humanity. It is with open hearts that artists unveil the works they have dreamed up and built for weeks, months, years.

Today’s show is here so that we can ask ourselves a thousand and one questions about who we are today, how to deal with illness, the fear of dying and where to find the breath of life. Through its current relevance, this show demonstrates once again that humans are complex, tender, touching and provocative.

This evening, we are opening another field of conversation, another Dialogue.

It is a great pleasure to welcome you here.

As you know, TCM remains attentive, I am available at any time to have coffee with you, to chat. Dialogue is at the very heart of our existence.

I wish you all a good night,

Geneviève Pelletier (she) Artistic and Execitive Director for TCM