LES SECOURS ARRIVERONT BIENTÔT
2020 and 2005
A performance with voice assistant for superheroes in peril
Premiered at la Place des Festivals, Montréal
August 27th to September, 5th, 2020
First version, Rouyn-Noranda
May 2005
Trafic Inter/national d'art actuel in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, an event bringing some 40 artists together to explore concepts of circulation, negotiation, power and law.
Les secours arriveront bientôt is a theatre performance set in public areas. Passers-by witness incidents or accidents that have placed superheroes in dire straights: Superman bloody, sprawled on the ground; Spider-Man imprisoned in his own web; Batman in tears, his cape stuck in a sewer grate; Wonder Woman on drugs and strung out, trying to stand up.
A posted emergency number lets people know they can call for help. A voice assistant asks Good Samaritans to describe what they’re seeing with a series of questions that probe the very notion of what a hero is. Do we need to be saved?
VOICE ASSISTANT
Do you think you have the power to reverse the course of events you’re witnessing?
If you do, say “Yes. I have that power”,
but if you don’t think you have that power, say “No. I don’t have that power.”
CAST AND CREW (MONTREAL EDITION)
Written and directed by Olivier Choinière
Performed by Guillaume Chouinard, Emilie Gilbert, Jean-Sebastien Lavoie, Philippe Racine
Voice assistant Andréanne Daigle, Rosalie Leblanc Houle, Audrey Perreault, Gabrielle Poulin
Costumes Elen Ewing assisted by Pascale Bassani
Makeup and Hair Justine Denoncourt
Production Manager and Technical Director Guillaume Labelle
Stage Management Stéphanie Capistran-Lalonde, Marie-Christine Martel, Eric William Quinn and Stephane Vezeau
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Produced by L'ACTIVITÉ co-presented with Quartier des Spectacles
