{"id":1044,"date":"2026-08-06T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/8-au-26-septembre-2026-le-nte-presente-jardin-develyne-de-la-cheneliere-et-daniel-briere-a-espace-libre\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:02:09","slug":"8-au-26-septembre-2026-le-nte-presente-jardin-develyne-de-la-cheneliere-et-daniel-briere-a-espace-libre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/8-au-26-septembre-2026-le-nte-presente-jardin-develyne-de-la-cheneliere-et-daniel-briere-a-espace-libre\/","title":{"rendered":"September 8 to 26, 2026. The NTE presents JARDIN by Evelyne de la Cheneli\u00e8re and Daniel Bri\u00e8re at Espace Libre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The NTE transforms the Espace Libre play area into a real interior garden, where the public can move freely. Jardin is a modern fable imbued with tender and insolent humor, which shakes our certainties and invites us to renew our view of the living.<\/p>\n

A profusion of plants inhabit the space; scents, colors, textures and volumes invite you to take a stroll. Through the ferns, black spruces and mint, emerge Adam and Eve (Lyndz Dantiste and Christine Beaulieu). Driven out of the original paradise, they reappear in Montreal, in the heart of the Centre-Sud district. They fall in love and move into an apartment from where they observe their neighbor, a taciturn gardener (Peter Trosztmer). Little by little, the presence of the plant world, powerful and mysterious, will put their fragile and mortal existence in crisis.<\/p>\n

With Jardin, the NTE reaffirms its desire to question living art and renew its methods of meeting the public. After Animals (NTE 2016) and Babies (NTE 2019), which already questioned the notion of presence on stage, Daniel Bri\u00e8re joins forces with Evelyne de la Cheneli\u00e8re to offer an immersive and poetic experience, where plant life deploys its quiet force and permeates the entire system. Abundant like an ivy, the author’s playful and terribly lucid writing is tinged with this plant universe. This project also constitutes a fertile field of research for the director, who here finds material to explore atypical forms with his researcher’s eye, far from any monoculture. Inspired by regenerative design, Jardin seeks to weave lasting links between people, their environment and their community. For the sake of dialogue with the territory, the tandem of creators has surrounded itself with partners committed to the life of the Centre-Sud district in order to anchor the show in its environment and celebrate the soil where it takes root. So, this garden will not just be a decoration. It will be composed of native plants chosen with and for the residents of the neighborhood, with the aim of them being redistributed to them at the end of the performances. It is a concrete gesture of greening and reciprocity, at the very heart of the artistic approach. Remember that, since 2018, the NTE has produced all its shows in an eco-responsible way. The performers of the piece each maintain a strong connection to the earth and the territory, nourishing an organic and evolving creative process, like a garden. We can say, with a touch of humor, that this is the largest cast in the history of the NTE: this trio in fact shares the stage with around sixty plant species, or around 1,700 perennial and native plants of Quebec.<\/p>