LES EMPLOYÉS

Based on the novel by Olgan Ravn

"Les employés is a short show of great precision, which redefines the stage space […] like never before. This essay on perceptions brings us back, like all of Cédric Delorme-Bouchard's works, to the fragility of the human experience."

Nathalie de Han, La Scena musicale

List Title

Adapted for the stage from the novel by Danish author Olga Ravn, The Employees is a captivating work imagined in a scenography of holograms and laser beams by director and designer Cédric Delorme-Bouchard.

Millions of miles from Earth, in the distant future, employees work on the six thousandth ship of a powerful space exploration corporation.

Aboard the crew are the humans, who nostalgically recall vague memories of what their lives on Earth used to be like and what they left behind. Then there are the look-alikes, flesh-and-blood beings, in every way similar to humans, but created in a laboratory, "born" as adults and who exist only for the purpose of productivity. When mysterious objects are brought aboard the ship, the fragile cohabitation between these two classes of employees cracks and descends into violence. What will be the solution to save the mission? Who will have to be sacrificed?

Through a fascinating lighting design, a scenography that is both stripped down and complex, and surgical staging, Cédric Delorme-Bouchard presents us with the sound and holographic archives of the last moments of a lost crew.

List Title

Director, set and light designer : Cédric Delorme-Bouchard / Based on the novel Les employés d'Olga Ravn / Traduction : Christine Berlioz et Laila Flink Thullesen (La Peuplade) / Dramaturg and adaptation : William Durbau / Assistant director : Sabrina Dupras / Sound design and original music : Simon Gauthier with the collaboration of Cydemind Score / Movement coach : Danielle Lecourtois / Costume design : Camille Jupa / Laser design : Cédric Delorme-Bouchard, Simon Gauthier / Video design : Samuel Boucher / Interprétation : Mélanie Chouinard, Jennyfer Desbiens, Myriam Foisy, Jonathan Malenfant, Alexis Trépanier / Recorded voice : Sabri Attalah, Catherine Beauchemin, Alex Bergeron, Marie-Anick Blais, Mélanie Chouinard, Nathalie Claude, Luc-Martial Dagenais, Jennyfer Desbiens, Nadia Desroches, Inès Defossé, Pascale Drevillon, Alain Fournier, Nora Guerch, Jon Lachlan-Stewart , Gabriel Lessard, Gabrielle Lessard, Jonathan Malenfant, Sébastien René, Emanuel Robichaud, Lise Roy, Dominick Rustam / Artistic direction CHAMBRE NOIRE : Cédric Delorme-Bouchard / With the collaboration of La Chapelle Theatre

Presentation

November 11 to 13 2021, Théâtre du Trillium (Ottawa)

April 7 to 12 2022, Théâtre La Chapelle (Montréal)

November 21 2022, Théâtre de La Ville (Longeuil)

April 27 to 6 May 2023, Théâtre Prospero (Montréal)

“Les employés is a unique sensory experience that is part of a refreshing new wave of science fiction in the theater.” Yannik Comeau , Théâtralités

“The creator Cédric Delorme-Bouchard offers an accomplished and captivating interdisciplinary work situated between dance and theater.” Yves Tremblay, Le Lien Multimédia

"Cédric Delorme-Bouchard and his creative accomplices have the great merit of taking us elsewhere, of proposing unexpected universes and a bold approach that does not change from one production to another. This new work bears witness to their commitment to experimentation and research […]."

Raymond Bertin , Game Review

“Cédric Delorme-Bouchard’s experimental adaptation is enthralling and a tour de force. »

Jacqueline van de Geer, Westmount Mag

“A contemporary, captivating and dreamlike work, which forms raw material for the director and designer Cédric Delorme-Bouchard.” Luc Boulanger , La Presse

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