Lawrence and Holloman
By Morris Panych
Directed by Olivier Perras
Lawrence : Mathieu Perron
Holloman: Mike Payette
Costume and Set Design: Marie-Christine Meunier
Lighting and Sound Design: Paul-Brian Imperial
Stage Manager: Yolande Monfiston
This dark, dark two-man show comedy tells the tale of two characters who meet seemingly by chance who find themselves in a plot of twists and turns, climaxes and clichés, arrogance and abstinence. Oh my!
Lawrence & Holloman played for two sold-out performances as the opener for Tableau D’Hôte’s inaugural season on March 25 th and March 26 th of 2005.
The play was performed at ASM (Actor’s Studio of Montreal) Performing Arts in Montreal .
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Tough!
By George F. Walker
Directed by Mathieu Perron
Tina: Jessica Abdallah
Bobby: Mike Payette
Jill: Laura Allen
Set Design: Azra King-Abadi
Costume Design: Lara Kaluza
Lighting Design: Julia Hutter
Sound Design: Paul-Brian Imperial
Assistant Director: Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte
Stage Manager: Yolande Monfiston
Part of George F. Walker’s East End Plays series, Tough! examines the struggles of three adolescents living in an impoverished community, where hope for a better future is often beyond reach. Dealing with themes such as teenage love, pregnancy, and responsibilities. The play also explores the psychological war games that accompany too many teenage relationships.
Tough! performances ran April 21 st, 22 nd and 23 rd of 2005. It played at the Cazalet Theatre in Montreal .
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PrAgression
By Mathieu PerronDirected by Mathieu Perron
Will: Jimmy Blais
Doctor Stevens: Paul Brian Imperial
Tony: Sara King-Abadi
Howie: Adam Levasseur
Officer Jenkins: Mike Payette
Daisy: Lindsay Petts
Kamali: Amrit Sanger
Manny: Noémie Savard
Nurse Clara: Natasha St Jean
Sammy: Magdalena Szymanska
Set and Lighting Design: Audrey Anne Bouchard
Costume Design: Azra King-Abadi
Sound Design: Benjamin IV
Assistant Director: Cara de Grandpré
Stage Manager: Katharine Childs
Assistant Stage Manager: Mary Davidson
After a catastrophic nuclear disaster that leaves many dead and missing, the few survivors that have found each other have undertaken the task of reconstructing society while battling against an unseen beast and struggling for power. What was once a mega city in the East Coast has turned into a hierarchal wasteland and no one is sure what to do next. It is up to ten people who are still coming to terms with their own losses to come together and rebuild their lives. However, when the task becomes almost unforeseeable to accomplish due to fear and paranoia, the mission alters into who can stay alive.
In spite of the subject matter, this piece, which gives a haunting look at present day post-apocalypse North America , owns a wickedly humoristic undertone as the entire play is set in a destroyed sperm bank turned refuge where the women may be barren and the men are most definitely impotent.
PrAgression was performed in front of eight consecutive sold-out audiences in September, 2005 at the Geordie Theatre in Montreal.
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I Am Yours
By Judith Thompson
Directed by Mike Payette
Toilane: Tommy Furino
Mercy: Rena Hundert
Mack: Paul Brian Imperial
Pegs: Patricia Manessy
Raymond/Man: Dom Pompeo
Dee: Liz Valdez
Assistant Director: Rebecca Harper
Set Design: Krystelle Metras
Costume Design: Azra King-Abadi
Lighting Design: Cara de Grandpré
Stage Manager: Rebecca Harper
Assistant Costume: Lara Kaluza
Assistant Lighting: Nanette Soucy
Assistant Stage Manager: Jo Joffre
I Am Yours is a play that mirrors the writings of famed playwright Judith Thompson. It is a story that is written from the gut, and that’s where the characters have been formed and shaped. Like many of her other plays including Lion in the Streets and Crackwalker, Thompson articulates the speech of the ill-loved in the filthiest areas of our cities, giving them a voice to speak, and a language to communicate with.
Set in Ontario , I Am Yours examines the lives of six characters that are seemingly stuck in a spinning cyclonic cage filled with insipid demonic thoughts, decaying dreams, and suppressed secrets in which they yearn to break out of and get rid of.
The journey begins as Dee wakes up from a terrible nightmare relating to the incestuous childhood events with her father and inferiority complexes with the mother who could never understand. As she struggles to break through her nightmarish past she crosses paths with a tormented husband, a self-loathing, love-yearning sister, an obsessively devoted landlord, and his lower class passionate and overwhelming ailing mother. A twist in the story arises as Dee finds out she is pregnant with her landlord’s baby after a spur of the moment one night stand. The battle between two biological mothers ensues and the future of this child is at the mercy of the fates.
I Am Yours ran in front of many sold out audiences at MainLine Theatre from May 3 rd – May 14 th.
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Amigo's Blue Guitar
By Joan MacLeod
Directed by Mike Payette
Callie: Jessica Abdallah
Elias: Patricio Canales
Owen: Eric Hausknost
Martha: Patricia Manessy
Sander: Mathieu Perron
Assistant Director: Paul Brian Imperial
Set and Lighting Design: Cara de Grandpré
Sound Design: Tommy Furino
Stage Manager: Paul Brian Imperial
Technical Director: Nanette Soucy
With the goal of doing something right in his life, Sander, a college
student, decides to sponsor a refugee from El Salvador. When Elias
arrives onto a small gulf in British Columbia, Canada, he brings with
him a history of torture that ultimately enables his new-found hosts
to realise their own buried pasts and bring them to the surface.
Joan MacLeod has been writing plays and stories involving refugees
from various parts of the world. Amigo's Blue Guitar examines the
naïve nuances of the do-gooder while telling the stories and hardships
of a life in the developing world.
Amigo's Blue Guitar played at the Centre-Culturel Calixa-Lavalée, and
endured a successful limited one-week run receiving critical acclaim
in September 2006.