LONDON QUÉBEC CULTURE FESTIVAL
@ Rosemary Branch Theatre
23-28 June 2009
First Edition
Starring CIRQUE DU SOLEIL composer
“The Rosemary Branch Theatre is absolutely delighted to be hosting the first London Québec Culture Festival packed with such a full and rich programme of events.”
Cecilia Darker, venue manager
Local and international talents are coming together for the inaugural London Québec Culture Festival. Built around the Québec National Day (24th June), it celebrates the diversity and quality of the Québec cultural identity that generated world renowned Cirque du Soleil, Robert Lepage and Céline Dion, with a program of award winning plays, traditional music, circus acts, plates of poutine and discovery activities for the family.
The Ventriloquist by award-winning playwright Larry Tremblay makes its UK Premiere as part of the London Quebec Culture Festival this June. Tremblay is one of Quebec’s most versatile and accomplished writers who won the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding mid-career artist in 2006. In The Ventriloquist he unravels the story of a disturbed 16 year old who wants to write the most beautiful novel in the world.
Québec National Day will be celebrated by an evening of traditional songs and music, starring internationally renowned CIRQUE DU SOLEIL composer Benoît Jutras and his daughter Audrey Brisson Jutras.
A stage adaptation of The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by best-selling Québec novelist Gaétan Soucy is a treat for the week-end. Impetuous Kinship award-winning performer and director Marcia Carr was described as “A performance marked by being amazingly physical, fluid and energetic.” by the Manchester Evening News.
French speakers will love Deux pas vers les étoiles by Jean-Rock Gaudreault, the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award winning play for young people, which will be performed in its original French language. It will be followed by free Québec discovery activities for the family.
There are 200,000 Canadians and 300,000 French living in the capital and this festival is a unique opportunity for them to celebrate the French Canadian culture.
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