with Jean Marc DALPÉ
direction Geneviève PINEAULT

a PRODUCTION by THÉÂTRE DU NOUVEL-ONTARIO (SUDBURY)

when a secret is buried deep in the garden

JEAN MARC DALPÉ IS A BORN STORYTELLER. He has translated this piece and he plays its only character: a wheelchair-bound, heroin-addicted miner in his forties. We listen to the admission of a man who is trying to rectify a mistake. “I am inside a rock where no living being has ever been.” We witness the tragedy of one who is being ravaged by what he has always wanted to fight. The frank and intense voice of a worker survives intact, a voice where courage shines like a beacon, of someone who makes his way from hatred to love.

SLAGUE – L’histoire d’un mineur (Spitting Slag) is a shocking and intelligent piece, scathing, and moving, eloquently written with a certain musicality to its rhythm and lyricism. Frank, direct language, sometimes crude, emitting a strangled cry in a universe that seems strangely like Jean Marc Dalpe’s.
In Mansel Robinson, Jean Marc Dalpé has found a colleague. His robust works, with their brawny, virile poetry, hoist themselves to the rank of Canadian classics. Dalpé is the translator designated to showcase the drama of this Northern Ontarian, just as he brilliantly did with Trains fantômes (Ghost Trains), a production of Théâtre Triangle Vital.