Garçon Béton
Created by Gabriel Guertin-Pasquier | Produced by création.thoracique | Origin: Montréal, Canada
La Nouvelle Scène – Studio B
14 + fees
45m
Show Details
I screamed “mom” under the neon lights dressed in red. You will lay water lilies on my grave; the faggots will be in mourning.
Content Notes
- Strobe lighting: Used during the performance.
- Adult language: Use of homophobic slurs.
- Violence: Use of fake blood, and the performance addresses violence towards the LGBTQ+ community.
- Mental health: The performance discusses depression and suicide.
* These performances will offer English captioning.
Showtimes
- Thursday, June 12*8:30pm
- Saturday, June 14*10:00pm
- Sunday, June 15*6:30pm
- Tuesday, June 17*8:30pm
- Thursday, June 19*5:30pm
- Saturday, June 21*8:30pm
Interweaving performative art and theatre, the company presents a necessary discourse on the horrifying rise of hatred towards queer communities worldwide. The performance honours the 54 LGBTQ+ victims of the shootings at Club Q and Pulse in Orlando.
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Garçon Béton runs red hot: this show is a deeply personal testimony of alienation, angst, self-loathing and trauma, and the tone is about as grim as this makes it sound.
But creator Gabriel Guertin-Pasquier isn’t doing this to merely guilt-trip or shock the audience: this testimony leads to important messages about their own identity, their own experiences, and the kind of world we must create for people like them to survive and thrive.
This show will certainly not be everyone’s cup of tea, but there’s definitely room at Fringe for something as heavy and worthy as this.
I believe this is the most criminally underrated show at this year’s fringe. There are a lot of fantastic shows at the fringe getting a lot of love. This one deserves more.
The show is in French, but the captions make this piece accessible to a wider public.
Guertin-Pasquier creates a work of art. The show is poetry. The visuals are mesmerizing. It is an emotional gut punch. It is one of the most unique pieces of theatre I have seen. (I saw 22 plays last year at the fringe, so I have seen a fair bit.)