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Marguerite: LE FEU

“Every autumn, I burn”

 

-Marguerite Duplessis

In 1740, here in Quebec, the trial of Marguerite Duplessis took place.

Duplessis, a young Indigenous woman, started a trial to claim her freedom. Bought to be sold, she was set to be embarked immediately on a merchant ship bound for Martinique. This was the first time in the history of New France that a Native person took legal action. It was also the first time that a person who had been enslaved tried to have her right to freedom recognized. Inevitably, Marguerite lost her case and was taken to Martinique. What happened to her afterwards is unknown.

It is Marguerite’s fire that inspired this show. It is the same fire that burns in all the Marguerites, those of yesterday and today, who fight for the recognition of justice. It is the fire of regeneration and recovered memory.

Marguerite: le feu is the stage version of a triad project that takes three forms. The show is accompanied by a podcast series entitled Marguerite : la traversée and a sound journey in the places of memory, Marguerite : la pierre.

Marguerite : le feu is represented by Valérie Cusson (America, Germany, United Kingdom, Oceania) and by Victor Leclère (Europe and rest of the world)
Okinum and Nigamon/Tunai by Valérie Cusson

Valérie Cusson  |  Cusson Management
+1 514 892 5399  –  valerie@cussonmanagement.com

Victor Leclère  |  La magnanerie / MAG.I.C.
+33 1 43 36 37 12  –  victor@magnanerie-spectacle.com

Text, direction, interpretation Émilie Monnet   Performers Anna Beaupré Moulounda, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Tatiana Zinga Botao   Text Émilie Monnet   Dramaturgy Marilou Craft   Stage direction Émilie Monnet, Angélique Willkie   Staging collaboration Mélanie Demers   Music Laura Ortman, Frédéric Auger   Set design Max-Otto Fauteux   Lighting Julie Basse   Video Caroline Monnet   Sound Frédéric Auger   Émilie’s song arrangements Dominique Fils-Aimé   Pow wow song Black Bear Singers   Costumes Korina Emmerich, Yso   Assistant director Érika Maheu-Chapman   Voice Dominique Cyrille   Video Integrator Dominique Hawry   Sound Manager Frédéric Auger   Video Manager Marie-Frédérique Gravel   Technical Director Romane Bocquet   Surtitles Elaine Normandeau   Tour Manager and Surtitles Manager Élise di Pierro   Production Dominique Sarrazin   Administration Dumont St-Pierre   Communications Jean-Matthieu Barraud

Marguerite : le feu is a creation of Onishka Productions in co-production with ESPACE GO

photo credit Pascal Gely / Hans Lucas

Contribution to the creation Aïcha Bastien N’diaye, Marie-Madeleine Sarr, Letícia Tórgo, Soleil Launière

 

PERFORMANCES

March 15 to April 2, 2022 at ESPACE GO, Montreal

May 19 to 21, 2022 at Théâtre le Diamant, Quebec City

July 7 to 11, 2023 at Festival d’Avignon (France)

 

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The Marguerite project was developed with the support of the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund. The creation was also supported by the Cole Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.

Marguerite: le feu is a coproduction of Espace Go.

This show was supported by the Territoire / Création program (Théâtre de la Ville, Théâtre du Bic, Théâtre Hector-Charland) and by CEAD’s Émergence théâtrale autochtone in partnership with the Cole Foundation.

This show benefited from residencies at Théâtre Le Diamant, Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, National Theatre School of Canada and Salon 58.

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