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.
Text Alistair McDowall
Translation Fanny Britt
Direction Louis-Karl Tremblay
Performance Évelyne Rompré
Direction assistant and stage management Alexandra Sutto
Set and costume design Karine Galarneau
Set and costume design assistant, stage technician Maude Janvier
Lighting design Robin Kittel-Ouimet
Lighting assistant Béatrice Germain
Sound design Antoine Bédard
Scenic paint design Camille Picher
Production management (creation) Gwenaëlle L'Heureux-Devinat
Production director (remount) Name TBC
Technical direction (creation) Joanne Vézina
Technical direction (tour) Rébecca Brouillard and name TBC
Tour management Charlotte Ménard
Lighting technician on tour Name TBC
Stage management Andrée-Anne Garneau
Stage management on tour Andrée-Anne Garneau, Alexandra Sutto, and name TBC
Coproduction Théâtre de Quat'Sous, Motto (Montreal)
