Blanche has just had her first child. Her evenings are spent listening to her baby cry, and her days, watching her breathe, obsessed by the thought of something happening to her. Refusing to be remembered as a case of parental neglect, she has become a mother and a pale version of her former self. When Charlène, her friend who happens to be terrified of motherhood, penetrates the chaos that has become Blanche’s existence, their certainties falter. Can a friendship survive the birth of a new violence within?
In this abrasive piece, developed through our artistic incubator, Caroline Bélisle explores the entanglements between femininity and guilt. Two women probe the traumas of childhood memories, and the buried impulses that appear, inescapably, after giving birth. As dramatic as it is funny, Liste des enfants dévorés par les loups depicts the paralyzing anxiety of our times… with bite.
Production Théâtre la Seizième (Vancouver)
Text Caroline Bélisle
Direction Cory Haas
Performance Siona Gareau-Brennan, Gabrielle Morin
Dramaturgy David Paquet
Production design Alaia Hamer
Sound design and composition Matthew Tomkinson, Andy Zuliani
Lighting design Robert Sondergaard
Stage management Melanie Thompson
Technical direction Phil Miguel
With the support of Société de Développement Économique de C.B., Programme FrancoZone, Les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie
