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Go shopping [et fais le mort]
Presented at La Chapelle from October 13 to 29, 2006.
In September 2001, a few days following the attack that deeply transformed America, the President of the United States appeared before his distraught nation with a disturbing message: “Take the plane, go to our great destination spots, go to Disney World, go shopping !” By this, he was inviting a whole nation in mourning to mime mundane gestures so as to hide its collective helplessness from the enemy. Is that not proof that our western society has an increasingly neurotic relationship to death? We hide it, we delete it from our collective stories, we deny it or we exclude it from our everyday life, an everyday life where the last of our rituals might be, sadly, to go shopping.
The President’s political response was the trigger for this new creation about death and mourning in a society obsessed with consumption. Go shopping [et fais le mort] brings to the stage the journeys of four wrecked characters from our mercenary world in a multi-disciplinary performance piece inspired by current political events. So, death causes you anguish? Mourning freaks you out? Go shopping!
Press Release (in French)
Go shopping [et fais le mort]
Texte: collective
Conceived and Directed by Catherine Bourgeois
Stage Managed by Amélie Dumoulin
Cast: Marc Barakat, Élisabeth Chouvalidzé, Jean-Pascal Fournier, Marina Lapina and James the fish
Costumes: Julie Charland
Video Collaborator: Glauco Bermudez
Lights: Jean Jauvin
Original Music: Jez
Set Collaborator: Félix Larivière
Production Manager: Lyne Thériault
Sound Technician: Maxime Boucher
Graphic Design : Mivil
Public Relations: Valérie Grig
Produced in collaboration with La Chapelle through a creation residency.
Go shopping [et fais le mort]... on tour!
Following its public and critical success at Théâtre La Chapelle, Go shopping [et fais le mort] returned with four performances in 2007 at the FAIT Festival (www.fait.ca) and at three of Montreal’s Cultural Houses.
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