Gurshad Shaheman, Dany Boudreault
Sur tes traces
septembersept 23 - october – oct 23
© Emily Coenegrachts ©
© Emily Coenegrachts ©
© Emily Coenegrachts ©
Monday september 23
20h
Tuesday september 24
20h
Wednesday september 25
20h
Friday september 27
20h
Saturday september 28
17h
Monday september 30
20h
Tuesday october 1
20h
Wednesday october 2
20h
Thursday october 3
20h
Friday october 4
20h
Written, directed and performed by Gurshad Shaheman, Dany Boudreault. Assistant director Renaud Soublière. Sound design Lucien Gaudion. Set design Mathieu Lorry-Dupuy. Lighting design Julie Basse assisted by Joëlle Leblanc. Dramaturgy Youness Anzane, Maxime Carbonneau. Stage management and technical direction Pierre-Eric Vives. Costumes Bastien Poncelet. Dany Boudreault's interpreter in Turkey Saeed Mirzaei. Transcription of testimonies Khadija Fadhel. Administration Emma Garzaro. Production management Julie Kretzschmar (Europe), Jérémie Boucher (Québec). Distribution Anouk Peytavin.
Production La Ligne d’Ombre et La Messe Basse (Montreal)
Delegated production Les Rencontres à l’échelle – Bancs Publics, resident structure of la Friche la Belle de Mai
Coproduction FTA – Festival TransAmériques (Montreal) ; Maison de la culture d’Amiens ; CCAM Scène nationale de Vandœuvre ; Théâtre Les Tanneurs (Brussels) ; Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) ; Le Manège Maubeuge – Scène nationale transfrontalière ; Le Quai – CDN Angers Pays de la Loire ; Théâtre de la Bastille ; Théâtre Prospero (Montreal) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of the Drac Hauts-de-France – ministère de la Culture, Région Hauts-de-France, of the Conseil des arts et des lettres (Québec), of the Conseil des arts du Canada ; of the Fondation Cole, of the Conseil des arts de Montréal and of the Spedidam
Residence Le Phénix scène nationale Valenciennes
The Théâtre de la Bastille and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers and present this show as a co-realisation.
“The Men Who Pass” by Gurshad Shaheman
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Interview Gurshad Shaheman
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The piece takes us a road-trip in the form of a double portrait involving two destinies, namely those of Gurshad Shaheman born in Iran, and Dany Boudreault in Quebec. Authors, directors and performers, the two artists got to know each other in Europe. Here, each of them sets off in search of their respective pasts.
Growing up in Iran, France and Quebec, Gurshad Shaheman and Dany Boudreault spent their childhoods thousands of kilometers apart. Despite this, there are a number of bridges that clearly join their different artistic journeys together, in particular their exploration of our innermost lives throughout history via self-narration, awareness of marginalized voices, the body, and sexual identity as a political space. Gurshad and Dany made a pact in Sarajevo. Kitted out with a list of names and places, each of them set out to follow in the footsteps of the other, discovering a host of long-since forgotten realities along the way. Two figures which quickly emerge during their investigations are those of a beaver hunter and a young man called to the front during the Iran-Iraq war. As their journey progresses, the bond between the two protagonists becomes increasingly interwoven and dense. Equipped with headphones, the audience navigates between the two stories. Indeed, the audience has to make a choice. The experience of this piece opposes the power of the encounter to the fractures that tear the East and the West apart.
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