This multidisciplinary show, combining theater, dance and circus, explores the following question: How can we cultivate hope in a world that is collapsing? Six performers on stage strive to find the answer, composing a sensitive collage which reflects our own dizziness in the face of our times. A sensory stage experience that transforms collective paralysis into creative energy. Faced with the state of the current world, where our lucidity easily transforms into fatigue and our compassion into helplessness, the creator Alex Trahan invites us to take part in his reflection: how can we create works that do not flee reality, but which make us want to take part in it?
Getting out of the doldrums means rekindling the fire: transforming despair into momentum, anger into action. Art therefore becomes an act of radical and lucid hope, a gesture which reminds us that beauty, solidarity and imagination are still forms of resistance; such are our furious hopes.
In addition to presenting Our Furious Hopes, La Fratrie invites spectators to a series of activities celebrating the richness of their artistic community and promoting exchanges between artists and the public. An opportunity to come together to exchange, discover and better dream of the future. This program will help give a festive and inspiring boost to the launch of the La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines season.
Text and direction Alex TrahanPerformers Yuma Arias, Chloé Barshee, Stacey Désilier, Manon Lussier, Patrick R. Lacharité and Daniel StefekMovements Alexia Martel | Dramaturgical advice Erika Mathieu | Management Claudie Gagnon | Sound design Étienne Thibeault | Design of costumes and accessories Marie-Audrey Jacques | Lighting design Joëlle LeBlanc | Scenography and technical direction Jenny Huot | Assistance to production management Flavie Dubreuil
Overview of the festivities for the 10th anniversary of La Fratrie: September 8: 6 to 7 musical previews with Fanny Migneault-Lecavalier, who will bewitch us with her siren voice! From September 9 to 15: Creative labs with Erika Mathieu (writing), Joëlle Paré-Beaulieu (improvisation) and Alexia Martel (movement and direction), upon registration. September 12 to 1 p.m.: Brunch discussion hosted by Alexa-Jeanne Dubé with a panel of surprise guests around the questions that inspired Our Furious Hopes. From September 14 to 18: Creative residency, in collaboration with the Caisse de la culture, offered to an emerging company for a week of research. September 19 at 8 p.m.: LA FRATRIE GOT TALENT, hosted by Jessica Léveillée Lemay. This cabaret invites around ten artists to take the stage to try to win the grand prize of $1,000. The evening will be followed by a party to celebrate the 10th anniversary.
Alex Trahan, graduated from the UQAM École supérieure de théâtre in 2013, is an actor and director. It was in 2013 that he created NO US, a dystopian piece echoing the maple spring, presented in Montreal and France. In 2016, he co-founded La Fratrie, with which he created multidisciplinary shows, including The stars will fall at the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival and De mille feu for Cirque Éloize in 2021. In the summer of 2022, he co-signed with Maxim Laurin the staging of Le Géant de Machine de Cirque for Complètement Cirque. In 2023, he created La nuit, les ombres at the National Circus School of Montreal and Roméo et Juliette with graduates of the Saint-Hyacinthe theater school, in collaboration with Lucie Vigneault. The year 2026 promises to be fruitful with his new creation Our hopes furious at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines and Macbeth with the graduates of the National Circus School of Montreal.