Marie Brassard - VIOLENCE
In the beam of a flashlight that pierces the night, a picture book opens to a drawing of a landscape. Flipping through the book, Léone, two and a half at the time, points at a barely discernable point in the blue sky of the drawing. “Look,” she says, “it’s like a small Japanese flower that hasn’t been born.” This remark summons a world that wants to exist beyond the book. What does she see beyond the visible drawing on the page?
A hybrid work for adults inspired by a child’s remark, Violence is the culmination of an adventure that began in Montreal and then took the company to Marseille and Vitlycke in the Swedish countryside. Against all odds, at the height of the pandemic we found ourselves virtually in Tokyo, then Kinosaki and Toyooka on the shores of the Sea of Japan, continuing to work on this project from a distance.
Violence is a surreal tale, a blend of visual and sound art, cinematic realism and expressionist theatre. This strange fable is about life’s sorrows and the fragile moment of a possible collapse that threatens to snap the thread binding us to life.
Duration : 90 minutes
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Credits Violence - FTA
Infrarouge production
Text + direction + interpretation Marie Brassard
Sound design + live music Alexander MacSween
Scenography + set management Antonin Sorel
Lights Mikko Hynninen
Video images + live screenings Sabrina Ratté
Costumes Julie Charland, Marie Brassard
Montage of images of Japan Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière
Dramaturgy Advisor Morena Prats
Team in Japan
Interpretation Kyoko Takenaka + Miwa Okuno
Video footage Shingo Ota
Choreography Miwa Okuno
Production Manager Moemi Nagi
Sound technicians Takeshi Inarimori + Hayato Ichimura
Production team
Technical direction Romane Bocquet + Catherine Fasquelle + Mateo Thébaudeau
Production manager + tour Anne McDougall
Scenography assistant + chief stagehand Andrew de Freitas
Sound system + sound engineer Gabrielle Couillard
Lighting manager Érik Nowosielski-Lamoureux
Video technology design Guillaume Arsenault
Coproduction Festival TransAmériques (Montreal) + French Theater of the National Arts Center (Ottawa) + Athens & Epidaurus Festival (Athens), Usine C (Montreal)
International Touring Agent Menno Plukker Theater Agency ( )
France tour agent Sarah Ford, Quaternaire ( )
Developed With support from the National Arts Center National Creation Fund
Creation residencies Montevideo (Marseille) + Usine C (Montreal) + Vitlycke
Center for Performing Art (Tanumshede) at the invitation of Göteborg Dance and
Theater Festival + Kinosaki International Art Center + Season-Morishita Studio (Tokyo)
Infrarouge acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts
and letters from Quebec and the Montreal Arts Council.
Acknowledgments Marcello Spada & Cinema-Teatro Apollo (Bellaria) + Yokna Hasegawa
Infrarouge
Administrative direction Jacinthe St-Pierre Coordination Catherine Sasseville
Production manager Anne MacDougall