Centaur Theatre Company and Urbi et Orbi present
DECEMBER 11, 12, 13, 19 & 20, 2008
Tickets:
Regular $26 / Seniors, Subscribers & Under 30 $20 / Students $17
After a successful initiation to Urban Tales last season, Centaur once again teams up with Théâtre de la Manufacture to present Théâtre Urbi et Orbi’s celebrated Urban Tales. A holiday ritual on the Quebec theatre scene for over 14 years, the second English edition will bring together several renowned Montreal artists for an evening of gritty holiday stories set in our modern urban environment. Get set for an enjoyable evening of holiday entertainment with these tales for mature audiences.
Directed by
Harry Standjofski
Written by
Yvan Bienvenue, Josée Bilodeau, André Ducharme, Danette Mackay, Greg MacArthur, Marie-Êve Perron, Harry Standjofski
Starring
Chip Chuipka, Patrick Costello, Graham Cuthbertson, Marcel Jeannin, Amanda Kellock, Danette Mackay, Donovan Reiter
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME?
by Harry Standjofski and Danette Mackay
told by Danette Mackay
A passing smile while Christmas shopping brings back a memory – if not to say awakens an old secret – that a woman does not yet want to share with her curious daughter…
A TAIL TALE ART
by Greg MacArthur
told by Patrick Costello
Easy money often comes at another price: a young street artist, answering a newspaper ad, learns this lesson all too well in this twisted tale.
SHE STOOD STOCK STILL
by Josée Bilodeau
told by Marcel Jeannin
We all regret not having reacted upon witnessing an injustice. And if the opportunity to repair the error came by, what would you do? React? Be a hero?
M’SSIEU DOUGLÂSSE
by Yvan Bienvenue
told by Chip Chuipka
We tell stories sometimes knowing that they’re just jokes, for a laugh - we all need laughs in our lives. Sometimes, though, we’d like to think that our stories serve to… help us reshape our world. It also happens that - maybe less often but it happens - that the tales we tell are not stories to reshape the world; rather stories of watching it dissolve. Tales of anonymous misery unwritten in the great book of history - because the world is too busy revolving to bother with every goddamn detail of every goddamn story.
MAKEOVER
by Marie-Ève Perron
told by Amanda Kellock
For the first time, Christmas dinner at her house! Everything is well planned, there will be no surprises. Oh, yes, there will be. Surprise after surprise. And those who bring surprise “gifts” never know how they will be received. At this disastrous family gathering, ‘tis definitely better to give than to receive.
MY SISTER EATS BALLS
by André Ducharme
told by Graham Cuthbertson
The warmest stories are those wherein we recognize ourselves. And the coldest, those we wish we had never heard. Maybe, like this story, a story to make you hesitate before answering an unexpected doorbell. And if you do recognize yourself in this story… turn yourself in to the police.
SHAME
by Harry Standjofski
told by Donovan Reiter
Tough work in tough times; a quiet story scratching at a life of daily gray, to see if there is any poetry to be found. Not everyone celebrates at Christmas time; some are working in houses that are no longer homes.
