with  Djennie LAGUERRE · Guy MIGNAULT and Martin-David PETERS

Onstage Musicians Jean ASSAMOA and Richard ‘Popcorn’ CUMBERBATCH direction Sara RÉNÉLIK and Guy MIGNAULT
SET and costumes design Jorge SANDOVAL
Lights Glen Charles LANDRY
Stage Management Gabriel DUBÉ

A creation by THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE TORONTO

when exotic gardens flourish at the same time

Three ONE-ACT PIECES in the same evening. A new work particularly close to our heart that celebrates the diversity of the French-speaking world.

Le Domestique (The Servant) is a short one-act monologue where a black servant exchanges views with his employer, a rich, white, narrow-minded widow. In Rendez-vous Lakay (Rendez-vous with Home), news of their father's death comes to Canada, their mother sends sisters Josephine and Suzette on a trip to Haiti to bury a man they hardly knew. Josephine, whose memories of her father are clearer, is riddled with angst. Suzette has very little recollection of her father and looks forward to the trip as a free vacation. What they find in Haiti surprises, confuses, and delights them both. Talented solo performer/creator Djennie Laguerre leads the audience on a journey to experience the universal human beauty of the Haitian people beyond the voodoo, the colourful clothes, and the extreme poverty, by using a dazzling combination of interactive Haitian storytelling style and traditional dance. Les Noirs sont heureux (Black People are Happy) is a boisterous settling of scores between a black married couple and a Russian expert on African studies. Inspired by a piece by Courteline, Martin-David Peters updates a classical comedy of the French theatre, putting it in a Torontonian context.

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