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Éloi ArchamBaudoin (Actor) on Coma Unplugged... (2:25)"I'll be playing the role of Daniel Martin who's the comatose, thirty-something, young-dad, professional humour writer, trying to find himself inside his coma.... It's going to be anything but realism, and that's a huge motivation for an actor... I think the biggest challenge will be to try to carry and convey that sadness and the angst that he has in order to better hide it with humour and cynicism and sarcasm. 'Cos that's what he does best." |
Interviewer: Lyne Paquette
Interviewee: Éloi ArchamBaudoin
LP: Hello.
ÉA: Hi.
LP: Can you present yourself and tell us what you'll be doing on Coma Unplugged.
ÉA: Well my name is Éloi ArchamBaudoin, I'm a bilingual Montreal actor, and I'll be playing the role of Daniel Martin who's the comatose, thirty-something, young-dad, professional humour writer, trying to find himself inside his coma, inside his head. The whole play takes place inside his imagination on a completely unconscious level.
LP: So what attracted you to the play?
ÉA: Well, the fact that, though, obviously we're going to be at the theatre, it's going to be anything but realism, and that's a huge motivation for an actor to be in a production like this. It's a beautiful play about our generation, generation X, and the questions we have, and the identity crisis that some of us are going through at this stage of our lives where we don't really know how to define ourselves--is it our personal life or our professional career that takes the lead?--, and the kind of defense mechanisms we build, with humour, with cynicism, to try to not be in a relationship with the things that create the angst around us. Also, there's an amazing group of artists working on this production with Talisman Theatre. There's Neil Napier that I'm very excited to work with again, Susan Glover, Chimwemwe Miller. So it's an all-star cast and I feel really, really priviliged to be with them on stage.
LP: So what's going to be your biggest challenge in preparing for this?
ÉA: Well probably to practice being in a coma for two hours, just lying horizontally, doing nothing [laughs]. No, obviously, in the play he's standing. He's not in his hospital bed. So I think the biggest challenge will be to try to carry and convey that sadness and the angst that he has in order to better hide it with humour and cynicism and sarcasm. 'Cos that's what he does best.
LP: Good. Well thank you.
ÉA: Thanks.
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04-06-2011