It starts with sounds syllables and repeated noises like a baby’s babbling. Then come words sentences and sensations that articulate first experience. A being is born from this torrent of words – a woman, in fact. At the end of her time on Earth, what will she have known? Faces skies pencils poems Kurt Cobain sex pain joy motherhood and endless labour. In sum, fragments of a remarkably ordinary life. For she is, after all, a woman just like anyone else.
This arresting monologue by British playwright Alistair McDowall moves through grand events and little yet universal realizations, capturing the essence of a woman’s journey in one deft breath. Carried by Évelyne Rompré’s commanding performance and reprised three times in Montreal since its first run of performances, Tout ça erects a deeply moving monument in the form of an inventory to the exquisite ordinariness of existence.
A production by Théâtre de 4'Sous and Motto
Text Alistair McDowall
Direction Louis-Karl Tremblay
Translation Fanny Britt
Performance Évelyne Rompré
Creative team
Direction assistant and stage management Alexandra Sutto
Stage management Andrée-Anne Garneau
Set and costume design Karine Galarneau
Lighting design Robin Kittel-Ouimet
Sound design Antoine Bédard
Set and costume design assistant, stage technician Maude Janvier
Lighting assistant Béatrice Germain
Scenic paint design Camille Picher
Technical direction (creation) Joanne Vézina
Production management (creation) Gwenaëlle L'Heureux-Devinat
Technical direction (remount) Rébecca Brouillard
Production director (remount) Juliette Farcy
Tour team
Tour management Charlotte Ménard
Lighting technician on tour Louis Martz and Emmanuel Bossé-Messier
Stage management on tour Alexandra Sutto, Andrée-Anne Garneau and Amélie-Claude Riopel
Technica tour management Rébecca Brouillard et Eric Le Brec’h
