Nouveau Play Tuesday

Français. English. Les deux en même temps.
French. English. Colliding at the same time.

Nouveau Play Tuesday est une soirée où les langues se croisent, s’obstinent, se mélangent et finissent par se comprendre. Des artistes bilingues d’Ottawa présentent de nouveaux textes en développement, des fragments, des idées, des scènes qui n’en sont pas encore.

Nouveau Play Tuesday is an evening where languages intersect, resist, mix, and (hopefully) come to understand one another. Bilingual artists from Ottawa present new work in development: fragments, ideas, and scenes that aren’t quite scenes just yet.

Performers | Interprétation : Rose-Ingrid Benjamin, Mauricio Campbell-Martinez, Dalia Jaja, Sarah Komendat
Mise en lecture : Dillon Orr
Production : Ariane Carrière

LINEUP | PROGRAMMATION DES PIÈCES

Écho par Dalia Jaja
Une nuit ordinaire bascule lorsqu’une présence imprévue s’invite dans l’appartement de trois amis. À partir de là, plus rien ne résonne de la même façon.
Primarily French. English appears organically in dialogue (expressions, reactions, habits of speech) the way it does in everyday Franco-Canadian life.

French Necromancer Raises a Skeleton That Only Speaks English by The Lighter Touch Art Collective
A French necromancer is trapped while trying to steal a famous grimoire. In order to escape, they raise a skeleton to do their bidding and set them free. The problem is this skeleton only speaks English. Every attempt to regain authority only makes things worse. It’s fast, dumb, sharp, and uncomfortable in exactly the right way.
Genuinely bilingual. The switching is constant and structural, not decorative.

Pilgrimage by Breanne Oryschak
Imagine the Bible meets Don Quixote if it was a Western reimagined in a Beckettian world. Clayton and Vanessa are pilgrims on a sacred mission until they encounter the end of Thomas’ gun barrel – a secularist protecting his land. A mock-epic battle ensues about the most righteous path.
Mostly English. Other languages (French, Spanish, Latin, religious language) appear as texture, ritual, or ideological markers.

White As Snow by Rose-Ingrid Benjamin 
A solo built from old journals, songs that won’t let go, and the act of saying things out loud for the first time. The piece looks back without trying to clean anything up. It sits with what stays.
Primarily English. French and Kreyol appear in memory, song, and family history.

À propos de Créations in Vivo
Créations In Vivo (CIV) est une compagnie de théâtre franco-ontarienne basée à Ottawa. CIV crée un théâtre populaire, loud, satirique et indiscipliné, ancré dans la francophontarianité et les communautés francophones en situation minoritaire. Ici, le bouffon est une posture politique, le rire un outil critique, et la nouvelle dramaturgie un terrain de jeu. Créations In Vivo croit à un théâtre vivant, excessif, accessible et intelligent. La vie est chaotique. Le théâtre peut l’être aussi.