PRODUCTION BLOG

9/09/2010:
MERMAID MASQUERADE
Come one, come all! This will be a ball! See mermaids mermaiding and others parading. Bring friends of all sizes and gifts for door-prizes. Come one, come all! to Talisman's Mermaid Masquerade! (Details on Facebook and on our website.)

31/07/2010:
TAKE HOME A NUDE!
In keeping with the theme of THE FLOOD THEREAFTER, Artistic Director Lyne Paquette has added new live model sketches to the Talisman Artsale. So give a nude a home and help support Montreal's English-language theatre!

25/02/2010:
ARTIST ANNOUNCED
Talisman is very happy to announce that renowned photographer Michael Garlington has accepted our invitation to permit the use of his image 'Fishmonger's Daughter' as the signature image for 'THE FLOOD THEREAFTER'. More...

03/11/2009:
TALISMAN WINS THE FRENCH CRITICS AWARD!
Talisman's production of Michel Marc Bouchard's 'Down Dangerous Passes Road' WINS the 2008 French Critics' (ACQT) award. Click here to read the press release (PDF).

25/10/2009:
TALISMAN NOMINATED FOR ACQT AWARD!
Talisman's production of Michel Marc Bouchard's 'Down Dangerous Passes Road' has been nominated in the category 'English Theatre'. Click here to read the full article in Voir (PDF).

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PRODUCTION DETAILS:

Fishmonger's Daughter
© Michael Garlington

Our 2010 production, The Flood Thereafter is a twisted fairytale set in a tidalpool of a fishing village on the Lower St-Laurence. It tells the story of June, daughter of a mermaid who cursed the small community and drove away the fishwives. Now, when June strips at Bar Émotion the men weep helplessly. But June tires of carrying the fishermen's burdens. When the trucker Denis appears, he breaks the spell holding back a tide. More...

WHEN AND WHERE:

October 14 to 23rd 2010
Theatre La Chapelle

DESIGN TEAM:

Lyne Paquette, Set
David Perreault Ninacs, Lighting
Fruzsina Lanyi, Costumes
Michael Leon, Sound
Rasili Botz, Movement

THE FLOOD THEREAFTER

Written by Sarah Berthiaume
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Directed by Emma Tibaldo

A word from Lyne Paquette, Artistic Director

"Talisman has selected The Flood Thereafter as a play written by one of the new generation of young feminist playwrights, one that reflects recent developments in feminist theory and practice." More...

Emma Tibaldo: On TFT's attraction... (2.5m)

"Every time I see one of these strip clubs I wonder who works in them and who goes to them... We see this through the eyes of a young woman named June and its her journey through this maze which is sexuality..." Press photo | More...

Sarah Berthiaume: Why she wrote TFT... (2.0m)

"The inspiration came from a stripper club named Emotion in the middle of nowhere... it was very poetic in a way and very pathetic in another way... I tried to create a play at the same time very poetic and mythologic..." Press photo | More...

Nadine Desrochers: On the challenges... (2.0m)

"It's a play about water, it's a play about people, it's a play about myths. And they all come together in this beautiful mix of poetry, lyricism, storytelling, but also very down-to-earth, very from-the-belly language..." Press photo | More...

Nadine Desrochers: A short reading... (2.0m)

"The words are spoken by Dalida who is sort of the high priestess of the village. What she does is to weave these wigs from the men's hair... which she gives to June... who is an exotic dancer. And there's a magic infused through everything that Dalida does..." Press photo | More...

 

La création de cette oeuvre a été rendue possible grâce à l'appui financier du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

 

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