Event Details
Seven bodies will be discovered along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Death will transform the daily lives of those who encounter it.
Directed by Geneviève Wabant-Martineau (Master’s candidate)
Sound: Simon Jutras
Lighting: Tristan-Olivier Breiding
Scenery and Props: Brian Smith
Featuring second-year French-speaking BPT students
The waves are particularly violent tonight. From Coteau-du-Lac to Blanc-Sablon, the St. Lawrence River battles gusts that will leave no one unscathed. Seven bodies are washed up on the banks of a territory as vast as it is unsettling. Seven unidentified bodies. Seven unclaimed remains. While out for a walk, a jog, a kiss, or simply living their lives, Élodie, Rose, Dora, Charlotte, Martin, Léo, Mathilde, Mathis, and Anne will encounter these dead. This encounter will allow them to affirm life. Or survival. In a narrative that is at once funny, sensitive, violently human, and tragic, the ebb and flow of multiple voices confronts the intimate and fragile gem that is every existence. And while these hearts grapple with their own stories, the river grapples with its own—the grand, the immense one, the one inscribed in the depths of its currents and tides.