One dark night, a young girl and her grandmother are discussing the beginning of the world when suddenly there is a knock at the door. The atmosphere tenses. The grandmother draws the curtains and barricades the door. She only has a few moments to pass on to the young girl her final advice for facing the world: “In the beginning, there was pop music…”. A pane shatters. A hand slides inside. The handle turns. A man in a black suit comes up and says: “Finally there you are, Britney Spears. » The young girl escapes, but it is the start of a cat and mouse game where each outcome leads to a new trap.
With Finally here you are (Britney Spears), Quebec playwright Marie-Hélène Larose-Truchon continues her exploration of a playful and fierce theater, and signs a comedy which denounces with insolent joy the excesses of the great machines of oppression – patriarchy, capitalism, sexism – which cross the centuries and reinvent themselves to better endure. In twelve scenes as absurd as they are delightful, the play unfolds scenarios where the famous singer seeks to escape her life as a pop star, to free herself from the stifling role that entertainment society imposes on her. She is in turn a single mother harassed by the media, a novice nurse with a Machiavellian patient. She takes on the features of the Virgin Mary fleeing the wise men, of a Cinderella disenchanted by the clandestine activities of the fairy godmothers, or even of a Marilyn Monroe dreaming of a can of gasoline and a match.
A figure at the same time idolized, hunted, sacrificed, Britney Spears becomes here the symbol of a female body exposed to the world, transformed into merchandise, propelled into an object of consumption. By fleeing this overexposure, she reveals the workings of pop culture: a system that creates dominant narratives, imposes its gender norms and recovers the image of women to reshape it according to its own fantasies.
This slightly crazy project fits perfectly into the continuity of the artistic approach of director Sébastien David (The Society of Disappeared Poets, A Girl in Gold, Sunday Napalm and Kiki and Anger), which explores a theater where the banal meets the spectacular, where kitsch meets the tragic. Under his direction, Finally Here You Are (Britney Spears) unfolds like a series of songs, each with its own color, energy, climate, and borrows the codes of the pop concert: lights, music, dancers, choreography. The team, mainly made up of women and people from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, of varied generations, origins and backgrounds, enriches the creation with the plurality of its perspectives, offering a diverse and vibrant look at power, celebrity and social norms.
“As soon as I started reading Finally Here You Are (Britney Spears), I was overcome by the proverbial thrill, the one that makes you jump headlong into a project. The author’s breath has the force of a hurricane. His anger is expressed with exquisite originality and his indignation ravages everything in its path. Immediately, I was Britney, as ready as she was to be condemned, era after era, to playing the forced role of adornment, of object of entertainment. My teeth were gritted with rage and, yet, I felt a fierce joy: Marie-Hélène Larose-Truchon serves us each Britney leak like a middle finger that makes you want to shout yeah!! If the text alone manages to galvanize me like this, I expect to end the evening standing on my seat, in revolt against the machine and exhilarated by the rock show that the team is preparing. » — Édith Patenaude
From September 22 to October 18, 2026Finally here you are (Britney Spears)Text: Marie-Hélène Larose-TruchonDirected by: Sébastien DavidWith Lula Brouillette-Lucien, Sophie Cadieux, Stéphanie Cardi,Marie-France-Lambert, Dominique Quesnel, Guillaume Tremblayand the chorus of dancers: Meihan Carrier-Brisson, Jade Leblanc, Jane Millette, Michelle Carolina Lucero Moris, Marianne MurphyAssisted director: Andrée-Anne GarneauScenography and props: Karine Galarneau and Louis-Karl TremblayLighting: Robin Kittel-OuimetCostumes: Leïlah Dufour-ForgetMusic: Antoine BédardChoreography: Alexandre MorinMakeup and hair: Justine Denoncourt-BélangerDirector: Erika Maheu-ChapmanDirection production and creation: Suzanne CrockerTechnical direction: Cello PonceDresser: Jeanne Dupré