Marie Brassard
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Marie Brassard is a Quebec actress, author and theatre director living in Montreal. For many years her professional endeavors were closely linked with Robert Lepage
. Under his direction, she participated along with other artists in the creation of several plays and films, among them The Dragons' Trilogy, Polygraph, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Geometry of Miracles.
In 2001, she created her first solo production, Jimmy, within the framework of the Festival de Théâtre des Amériques, now Festival TransAmériques. In the meantime, she has produced four other works – The Darkness, Peepshow, The Glass Eye (with Louis Negin
) and The Invisible – in which she has continued to experiment with technology and explore the many ways with which sound can be manipulated in theater. By interlacing voices and music and traversing the planes of reality, she leads audiences to a world where the boundaries between public and private dissolve and the relationship between human beings and technology becomes intimate. Her unique work, performed both in English and French, has made her a singular voice in contemporary theater, receiving widespread acclaim in many cities across America, Europe and Australia.
She is the artistic director of the production company Infrarouge.
Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...
. Under his direction, she participated along with other artists in the creation of several plays and films, among them The Dragons' Trilogy, Polygraph, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Geometry of Miracles.
In 2001, she created her first solo production, Jimmy, within the framework of the Festival de Théâtre des Amériques, now Festival TransAmériques. In the meantime, she has produced four other works – The Darkness, Peepshow, The Glass Eye (with Louis Negin
Louis Negin
Louis Negin is a Canadian actor, recently best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin.Negin, most prominently a stage actor, had his earliest film and television roles in the 1950s Canadian dramatic anthology series First Performance, and as a chorus member in Tyrone Guthrie's 1957 film of...
) and The Invisible – in which she has continued to experiment with technology and explore the many ways with which sound can be manipulated in theater. By interlacing voices and music and traversing the planes of reality, she leads audiences to a world where the boundaries between public and private dissolve and the relationship between human beings and technology becomes intimate. Her unique work, performed both in English and French, has made her a singular voice in contemporary theater, receiving widespread acclaim in many cities across America, Europe and Australia.
She is the artistic director of the production company Infrarouge.
Solo Shows
- 2010: Me talking to Myself in the Future
- 2008: The Invisible
- 2007: The Glass Eye
- 2005: Peepshow
- 2003: The Darkness
- 2001: Jimmy
Filmography
- 1997: Le Polygraphe
- 1998: NôNô (film)Nô is a 1998 film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage's play Seven Streams of the River Ota.The title is a pun which reflects the film's dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum to Japanese Nō theatre.-Plot:The film is set in 1970 at the height of the FLQ...
- 2000: The ClaimThe ClaimThe Claim is a 2000 British Western/romance film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is loosely based on the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The original music score is composed by Michael Nyman....
- 2001: La Loi du cochon
- 2002: Past Perfect
- 2004: Le Bonheur c'est une chanson triste
- 2006: CongoramaCongoramaCongorama is a Canadian film directed by Philippe Falardeau, released in 2006.- Synopsis :Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the...
- 2007: Continental, un film sans fusil
- 2008: Babine
- 2008: Cadavres
- 2009: Les grandes chaleurs
- 2009: Les signes vitaux
Sources
External links
- Infrarouge, Marie Brassard's Production Company
- The Canadian Encyclopedia