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Espace Go, ''Faire la mort''

Montreal

The sketches foresee that the stage space will be delimited by drapes suspended 7.3 m above the stage floor.Their making up does not necessarily have to respect symmetries, but rather must have a slightly irregular and neglected appearance.During a conference call, set designer Geneviève Lizotte ...
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... adds some details about the execution of the drapes, while production manager Suzanne Crocker explains how 30 elements of a point-release kabuki system will be used to hang them.After testing with various lightweight and reflective fabrics ...
... the creative team chooses the synthetic organza EAL - Alba and decides that, to have maximum freedom of installation, the fabric will be made up with flat making.The finish of the upper side of the backdrops must allow them to be hung with adjustable modes ...
... creating the drapes of the vertical fullness and concentric fullness as desired.At the end of the making up, an assembly test is carried out, which is a prelude ...
... to the final one on the stage.The lighting designer Étienne Boucher will use frontal lighting to give more body to the organza ...
... and to give it the colours that the direction by Marie-Ève ​​Milot will deem appropriate to accompany the emotions provoked by the reflections on the mournful and painful theme ...
... that the staging deals with.« The play is the result of a surprising question: '' How to accept the death of a person who is still alive? ''After having explored for years the accompaniment at the end of life ... »
«... author Krystel Descary has put her knowledge into a work that takes the viewer beyond the taboo of death, offering alternative ways of thinking about the end of our existence and that of our loved ones.»From the presentation notes of Faire la mort.
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Krystel Descary
First night
Montreal, Théâtre Espace Go, 12/11/2024

Scenography
Geneviève Lizotte
Costume design
Cynthia St-Gelais
Light design
Étienne Boucher
Technical direction
Alex Gendron
Production and creation management
Suzanne Crocker
Stage direction
Marie-Ève Milot

Production
Théâtre Espace Go
Staging
Théâtre Espace Go
Season
2024 / 2025

Materials used in this production

Concentric fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

EAL - Alba

Voiles

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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