photo: Christopher McKenney
FRANÇAIS
LE THÉÂTRE DU NOUVEL-ONTARIO 2014.2015 SEASON
LE THÉÂTRE DU NOUVEL-ONTARIO
REGRESSIVE RATE
[18 to 35]
Life is simple, with our new Regressive Rate! This is a perfect alternative to yearlong subscriptions for people 18 to 35 years of age who wish to plan a night out at the Theatre, with no strings attached! You are no longer constrained to subscribe and your last minute mindset is put to ease. Your loyalty will be rewarded; the more you attend, the more you save. Your first ticket will cost you $30 and every time you attend another play, within the adult series that same season, the TNO will knock $5 off the price of your last ticket purchase. See the “BOX OFFICE” page for more details.
OUR NEW WEBSITE Our website is undergoing a major makeover over the summer! Its modernized interface and updated navigation system will facilitate access to information and do so intuitively. Completing online purchases will never be so easy! We also believe its contemporary visual design will better showcase upcoming performances as well as their artists. We encourage you to consult our website regularly, letno.ca.
SUPERTITLES Supertitles are back for a third consecutive season! This technology allows us to project an English translation of the play above the stage. The projections are done simultaneously, which means that English speaking audience members can enjoy French theatre… in English! Seeing that this initiative was warmly welcomed and very much in demand, the TNO has decided to increase the number of performances featuring Supertitles. The TNO will now be offering supertitled performances for all four shows pertaining to the adult series, Saturdays at 2pm and at 8pm. SUPERTITLES SPONSOR
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
GENEVIÈVE PINEAULT
William Shakespeare, Hamlet [III, sc2; modern version]
Many go to the theatre to relax and to be entertained. They are seeking escapism and rightly so. After all, theatre is a source of pleasure. But life is also made up of emotions and feelings. Theatre allows us to learn, to grow, to live and to be moved. It is a reflection of reality, of the life and world that surround us. Yes, a reflection of society because today’s plays and those of the past are often based on daily occurrences. That explains why so many theatregoers perceive theatre as a mirror of their own lives, with all their qualities and faults.
In his foreword to Stephan Cloutier’s Fuego, a children’s play, Dramaturgy Consultant Paul Lefebvre, who happens to be a friend and colleague, wrote that “to the City, plays are similar to a person’s nighttime dreams. They are representations of the world that allow us to find creative solutions to matters that reason and will cannot answer alone.” The City needs theatre. We need theatre. Its role is to highlight, expose, question, celebrate and inspire. Theatre is a representation of the world as it is, as it should be. Each year, the TNO seeks to entertain and challenge. I’ve been amused, moved, awed and charmed by this season’s plays. You will discover works that will touch your heart, tickle your funny bone and blow your mind. I’m anxious to share them with you. I’m looking forward to meeting you all season long! Enjoy the ride!
photo: Alexandre Mattar
“In the theater, the purpose is to represent reality, holding a mirror up to virtue, to vice, and to the spirit of the times.”
OLIVER JONES [BENEFIT CONCERT]
AN INTIMATE EVENING
OLIVER JONES Since his stint as an Associate Professor at Laurentian University in 1987, Canadian jazz legend Oliver Jones has remained a friend of Greater Sudbury. So it is with great pride that the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario invites you to attend an intimate benefit concert for a hundred people featuring Mr. Jones in a solo piano performance. A cocktail dinatoire [finger foods] will be offered before the show, followed by small desserts after the performance. So jazz up your evening while supporting the TNO! SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER 2014 you will receive a $100 income tax receipt
$150
YOUR DONATION IN ACTION… Proceeds of the event will be invested in: • French-language theatre productions presented to hundreds of children at a reduced price during family and school-based matinees; • Amateur actors and artisans who will be introduced to theatre with the TNO’s community-based production of Silence en coulisse; • Young professional artists, creators and technicians who will work on TNO projects; • Two $1,000 scholarships for students attending Laurentian University’s FrenchLanguage Theatre Program and Collège Boréal’s Technique et gestion de scène program; • The development of new works by up and coming and established playwrights; • Rich and innovative theatre seasons yearly.
MIDSUMMER
photo: Rolline Laporte
[UNE PIÈCE ET NEUF CHANSONS | A PLAY WITH SONGS]
ADULT SERIES
TWO MELLOW GUITARS, ONE WILD ESCAPADE
MIDSUMMER [UNE PIÈCE ET NEUF CHANSONS | A PLAY WITH SONGS] 100 minutes without intermission
A THÉÂTRE DE LA MANUFACTURE production It’s late June in Edinburgh and fate conspires to unite Helena and Bob. She’s a jet-setting divorce lawyer; he’s a small time crook. They are both 35 years old and disillusioned with life and love. Helena brings Bob back to her place in a spirit of meaningless distraction, but unexpectedly, their story morphs into a euphoric escapade that will soon collide with destiny. On the edge of their lives, will they fall to their deaths or fly off into the sky?
OCTOBER 2014 SATURDAY 18
2 pm + 8 pm
performances offered with Supertitles
Acted, narrated and sung by two multitalented performers, this contemporary love story warms the heart. Fine voices, mellow guitars and nine stirring songs inject true musical delight into this play. Two outwardly strong, yet inwardly fragile personalities come together in a sudden eruption of hope and sensitivity. This lively mix of urban tale, romantic comedy and folk-based musical theatre will leave you feeling light-hearted.
photo: Suzanne O’Neill
Authors DAVID GREIG and GORDON McINTYRE Translation OLIVIER CHOINIÈRE Director PHILIPPE LAMBERT With ISABELLE BLAIS and PIERRE-LUC BRILLANT
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photos: Marianne Duval
JE N’Y SUIS PLUS
ADULT SERIES
CAN EXASPERATION CHANGE THE WORLD?
JE N’Y SUIS PLUS 75 minutes without intermission
When Ariane witnesses the arrest of a young woman in a department store, she snaps and implodes. In a fiery rant lightened by a touch of self-mockery, she rails against her complicity with oppression in a world of disheartening cubicles and ridiculous overconsumption. On a bare stage with just two large back-lit screens, her powerful monologue is amplified by the energy of an on-stage percussionist.
NOVEMBER 2014 SATURDAY 29
A MAGALI LEMÈLE, THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DU CNA and CRÉATIONS IN VIVO coproduction
2 pm + 8 pm
performances offered with Supertitles
This one-woman show is your opportunity to discover a rising star of Franco-Ontarian theatre. Magali Lemèle plays the part of Ariane and codirects the play. Ariane gives a voice to an anguish deeply felt by a generation of young women whose aspirations are overcome by modern society. Author MARIE-CLAUDE VERDIER Directed and performed by MAGALI LEMÈLE Co-director LOUISE NAUBERT Soundscape performed by JEAN-SÉBASTIEN DALLAIRE
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UNE VIE POUR DEUX
photos: Caroline Laberge
[LA CHAIR ET AUTRES FRAGMENTS DE L’AMOUR]
ADULT SERIES
A PLAY BEST LOVED BY TWO
UNE VIE POUR DEUX [LA CHAIR ET AUTRES FRAGMENTS DE L’AMOUR] 80 minutes without intermission
A novel by renowned author Marie Cardinal is magnificently adapted for the theatre. After 20 years of vie à deux, Jean and Simone hope to revive their sagging relationship by taking a vacation in Ireland. During a walk on the beach, Jean finds the body of a drowned young woman. This morbid encounter becomes the couple’s shared obsession. Her presence becomes a part of them, alive in their fears, their bitterness, their jealousy, and ultimately, their redemption.
FEBRUARY 2015 SATURDAY 28
A THÉÂTRE ESPACE GO production
2 pm + 8 pm
performances offered with Supertitles
The dialogues are psychologically acute and beautifully poetic; the actors are alive with truth and humanity. Jean and Simone are like so many couples who have stumbled and faltered through years of everyday life, drained by its joys and sorrows, its hopes and disappointments. Too often they come to believe that their love has long gone. Perhaps there is more to their story than they know. Author EVELYNE DE LA CHENELIÈRE based on the novel by MARIE CARDINAL Director ALICE RONFARD With JEAN-FRANÇOIS CASABONNE, VIOLETTE CHAUVEAU and RACHEL GRATON
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photos: Stéphanie Capistran-Lalonde
MOI DANS LES RUINES ROUGES DU SIECLE
ADULT SERIES
GET TO KNOW A COMRADE
MOI DANS LES RUINES ROUGES DU SIÈCLE 105 minutes without intermission
A TROIS TRISTES TIGRES production Born in Soviet Ukraine in 1969, Sasha Samar – who is both the main character and the actor in this play – recalls his childhood fantasies, featuring cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and gymnast Nadia Comaneci, and his adolescent aspirations which ran into Lenin and Soviet indoctrination. Chernobyl, Siberia and the fall of the Berlin Wall were soon to follow. Autobiography becomes theatre; world history becomes one man’s story.
APRIL 2015 SATURDAY 25
2 pm + 8 pm
performances offered with Supertitles
Sasha Samar is an amazing storyteller. With rhythm and energy and a Slavic bon vivant attitude, his play is alive with history, but also with music and dance. Relive the last decades of the 20th century as viewed from the other side of the Iron Curtain. As recent political turmoil in his home country still resonates, Samar will draw you into the intensity of Ukraine’s love-hate relationship with Russia. Original idea by SASHA SAMAR and OLIVIER KEMEID Author and Director OLIVIER KEMEID With ANNICK BERGERON, SOPHIE CADIEUX, GEOFFREY GAQUÈRE, ROBERT LALONDE and SASHA SAMAR
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[THE STAR KEEPER]
photos: Léon Gniwesch
LE PORTEUR
CAN A WORM GUIDE A STAR BACK TO HEAVEN?
YOUTH SERIES | 4 to 8 years of age
LE PORTEUR [THE STAR KEEPER] 50 minutes without intermission
A THÉÂTRE DE L’ŒIL production As he does every evening, an old Pierrot draws a curtain of night over the world and lights up the stars. Then, he goes to bed without noticing that a star has fallen! A caring worm finds the star and helps it find its way back to heaven. On his journey, the resolute little worm encounters many strange and amusing characters – a family of sea-horses, a tap-dancing spider, an unlikeable young girl – and braves the perils of the wide world.
APRIL 2015 SATURDAY 11 UNIVERSAL THEATRE WITHOUT WORDS
11 am + 2 pm
This play has circled the planet many times since 1997, garnering many awards along the way. Though the story is told without words, the stagecraft is so lovely, the puppets are so expressive and the music is so stirring that the story is all the more tenderly enchanting. Children of all ages love this play for its inspiring story and amazing puppetry techniques. Concept RICHARD LACROIX, ANDRÉ LALIBERTÉ and RICHARD MORIN Director ANDRÉ LALIBERTÉ With JEAN CUMMINGS, STÉPHANE HEINE, MYRIAME LAROSE and GRAHAM SOUL
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RATES Season 14.15 subscriptions are on sale only until 10 October 2014. Harmonized Sales Tax [HST] is included in the pricing. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE IF PURCHASED BEFORE 31 AUGUST 2014 25% savings Adults $96
60 + $69
Students [18 to 25] $54
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE IF PURCHASED AFTER 1 SEPTEMBER 2014 15% savings Adults $108
60 + $78
Students [18 to 25] $61
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Other merchants may be added to this list by 31 May 2014. Subscriber cards are valid from 1 June 2014 until 31 May 2015. You must present your subscriber card to our participating merchants to take advantage of these special offers.
BOX OFFICE REGRESSIVE RATE = THE MORE YOU ATTEND, THE LESS YOU SPEND! You’re between 18 and 35 years of age and wish to plan a night out at the TNO? However, your free time is calculated by the second and the idea of a yearlong commitment makes you shudder? Look no further! Thanks to the TNO’s new Regressive Rate, you’re no longer constrained to subscribe and your last minute mindset is put to ease. Your loyalty will be rewarded; the more you attend, the less you spend! Your first ticket will cost you $30 and every time you attend another play, within the adult series that same season, the TNO will knock $5 off the price of your last ticket purchase. As a result, when you attend all four shows, your last ticket will cost you $15. SUPERTITLES SUBSCRIPTION = PRIVILEGES Subscribe and save on the cost of your tickets to attend all four productions of the adult series featuring Supertitles. On sale until 10 October 2014. Save 25% when you purchase your subscription before 31 August 2014 Save 15% when you purchase your subscription between 1 September and 10 October 2014 Your subscription guarantees you a ticket for each production of the Adult Series. You will benefit from: • Savings of 25% or 15% on the cost of single tickets conditional on date of purchase. • Savings with our participating merchants throughout the season. See the SUBSCRIPTION page for more details. • A reminder of your show dates by phone or email [if requested]. • An early-bird invitation to our 2015.2016 season launch. GROUP RATE = LET’S SOCIALIZE! Take advantage of our group rate and enjoy a night out at the theatre with your friends, family or colleagues. Groups of 12 people or more benefit from a 10% discount, on single ticket pricing, for a same performance. GIFT CARDS = THANK YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! AND I LOVE YOU! This year, think outside the box and offer a TNO gift card to your loved ones! Give them the gift of a memorable theatre experience. Your friends and family will thank you! Gift cards are available in the following denominations: $10, $25 or $50.
SINGLE TICKETS Harmonized Sales Tax [HST] included Adult Series Adults $32
60 + $23
Students [18 to 25] $18
Teens $5
Children’s Series Adults $20
60 + $17
Students [18 to 25] $15
Teens/Children $5
3rd show $20
4th show $15
REGRESSIVE RATE [18 to 35] Harmonized Sales Tax [HST] included Adult Series During the same season
1st show $30
2nd show $25
$1 per ticket sold is invested in the maintenance of the André-Paiement Studio. To take advantage of our Regressive Rate, Students and 60+ rates, ID is required. The $5 special rate for teens and children [$10 regular price] is made possible thanks to the Collège Boréal and Laurentian University’s generous support of our 2014.2015 season. BOX OFFICE POLICIES The TNO made changes to its box office policy. Please consult letno.ca under Box Office for details, or call 705 525 5606 #4.
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Nous tenons aussi à souligner l’apport de nos partenaires réguliers qui ne figurent pas dans la liste ci-dessus. Ces précieux collaborateurs sont solidaires du TNO dans la poursuite de sa mission : Association des compagnies de théâtre, Association des théâtres francophones du Canada, Centre franco-ontarien de folklore, Éditions Prise de parole, Fédération culturelle canadienne-française, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, La Nouvelle Scène, La Nuit sur l’Étang, La Slague du Carrefour francophone, Le Salon du livre du Grand Sudbury, Les concerts de musique contemporaine 5-Penny, Les Éditions David, Les Éditions GREF, Les Éditions l’Interligne, Réseau Ontario, Théâtre Action, le Théâtre français de Toronto, ainsi que le Théâtre la Catapulte.