The night of kings
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Comedy
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Following a shipwreck, twins Viola and Sebastian are stranded in two different places on the Illyrian coast. To ensure her survival, Viola adopts the guise of a man, takes the name Cesario and presents herself to the Duke. The Duke, madly in love with Countess Olivia, who rejects her advances, sends Cesario to convince her of his love. But Olivia soon falls under Cesario's spell, and he is not insensitive to Duke Orsino. The arrival of Sebastian and his uncanny resemblance to Viola/Cesario leads to a series of misunderstandings and miscommunications, not least thanks to Feste, the jester.
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The night of kings
FESTE
Benoît McGinnis
MALVOLIO
Yves Jacques
Music
Gustafson | Jean Philippe Perras
OLIVIA
Marie-Pier Labrecque
VIOLA | CÉSARIO
Clara Prévost
VALENTIN
Adrien Bletton
MARIA
Kathleen Fortin
TOBY
Étienne Pilon
SIR ANDREW
François-Simon Poirier
SÉBASTIEN
Thomas Derasp-Verge
ANTONIO
Alex Desmarais
MUSICIAN
Guido Del Fabbro
"And they lived happily ever after... perhaps for a long time. They never forgot to live before they died, to love before they hated, to hear before they said... When obstacles abound, passions grow...
To love is to exist stronger and longer
Let's dance, laugh, drink...
...before it all stops".
- FESTE
A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR
-The need to love-
"Dear Will,
An unexpected brother whom I meet again with an intoxicating desire to live. Your stories awaken my imagination, reveal my innermost self. At your side, I laugh, I cry, I marvel. I try to understand the world. My world. You confront me and offer me absolute, vital freedom. A freedom that reveals my vertigo. A vertigo of love and solitude. A fury that rages within us all. A storm that's never far away. It taunts us, approaches us and engulfs us. It tests our need to love. To be loved. To love ourselves. To love a boy, to love a girl... To love a BEING. No matter its sex, its origin. Just to love. All night long. All your life. Over and over and over."
-Frédéric Bélanger
The Team
Text adaptation: Rebecca Deraspe
Director: Frédéric Bélanger
Assistant director: Marie-Hélène Dufort
Set design: Francis Farley-Lemieux
Costumes : Sarah Balleux
Lighting: Nicolas Descoteaux
Video design : Thomas Payette + Mirari
Video design assistance: Gaspard Philippe
Original music: Groupe Gustafson (Adrien Bletton, Jean-Philippe Perras)
Make-up: Amélie Bruneau-Longpré
media coverage
-The Echoes-
RADIO CANADA
"Frédéric Bélanger wanted to reinvent this play without distorting it, an exhilarating exercise that he recounts (...)".
Radio Canada
"It's Shakespeare bursting at the seams, poetic, moving, daring, but above all it's so funny, it's so rhythmic!"
THE PRESS
"The TNM opens its season in style with this delightful Shakespearean comedy delivered in the form of a musical tale.
SORS-TU.CA
"This is the magic of this five-star cast (...) Added to this are moments of pure poetry and musical ecstasy."
GAME REVIEW
"This festive production, in which love triumphs, is perfectly timed for a TNM in full transformation (...)".
mattv.ca
"This play (...) has everything to make Quebecers want to take refuge in a theater(...)".
THEATRE.QUEBEC
"The boat is steered by an outstanding cast, (...) everyone contributes to the edifice."
JOURNAL DE MTL
"(...) it's a more sparkling, more explosive Shakespeare, totally crazy and almost insane (...)".
THE ARTSZÉ
"Projections, flamboyant costumes, catchy refrains, etc., there's never a dull moment in this show (...)".
URBAN BIBLE
"There's something lickety-split, but also visually pop with the video projections: it's extremely beautiful (...)!"
JOURNAL DE MTL
"(...) this new version (...) is a happy blend of genres (...) Yves Jacques is sublime (...)".
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