NAC French Theatre

Revisit the past

Theatre

Do you love the classics, those timeless works that beg to be constantly reimagined? From a revamped feminist tale to the story of Jesus, from a mesmerizing maritime fable to a joyful investigation of “the repertoire,” take a look at our times through important pieces of the past. 

Upcoming events

  1. This theatre dreamscape portrays an astounding metamorphosis, a moulting: the tale of a woman on a quest for her true skin, a skin the colour of freedom. Astoundingly, the many characters in this reinvented fairy tale are all portrayed by two magnetic performers: Sophie…

  2.  When a creative company known for films dredges up from the vaults of the past a masterpiece of theatre by filmmaker Pierre Perrault, it throws the audience onto the banks of the river, dreaming of half-obscured horizons. This bewitching maritime tale is directed…

  3. A joyous exchange of ideas, eloquent and irreverent, about the works that have left their mark on Western theatre. A fantastic team of artists unabashedly plays with the ostentatious subject of what makes a “classic” to cast an “antiquatedly new”…

  4. This outlandish epic, which borrows as much from the history of Jesus as it does from pop culture, is a two-part work in the style of a hyperactive kaleidoscope. Dance, theatre, kung-fu, mime, song, lip synching: every performing art on stage at once to tell the tale…

Past events

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