Stage Door News
Stage Door News
Ottawa, February 18, 2013
Marleau, some years ago, staged a few shows full of ho ho ho, don’t you know. Now, four pros, synchronized just so, deliver in staccato the words of Queneau and his buddies from the OuLiPo. Go, go to the Studio, where syllables leap and flow!
Twenty-five years ago, Denis Marleau, pit pit pit, staged an amusing play, he he he, timed to the second, tick tock tick tock, for UBU, pshite pshite pshite. The same four actors, yes yes, are back to amaze us, wow!, with Oulipian texts (hide this “e” that I dare not see) and other exercises in ssssssstyle. And they’re off!
Ushers in indigo jackets will tear your purple tickets; then, in the black Studio, the talented foursome, all dressed in beige, launch into a white-hot performance. From the comfort of your red seat you will discover one of the first productions directed by Denis Marleau, an astonishing feat staged in his green salad days. You’ll laugh a lot—no jaundiced eye here, we’re in the pink! A sure-fire cure for the blues…
OULIPO SHOW
FEBRUARY 27 TO MARCH 2, 8 P.M. / STUDIO
Texts: Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, François Caradec, François Le Lionnais, Jean Lescure, Denis Marleau, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec and Michel Tremblay // Collage, direction and set design: Denis Marleau // With Carl Béchard, Pierre Chagnon, Bernard Meney and Danièle Panneton
Produced by UBU compagnie de création
WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT IT
Retour au plaisir d’origine (Voir / 13-10-2011)
Ubu comme dans... Marleau (Le Devoir / 15-10-2011)
TICKETS
Adults $35 / Students $19
Live Rush 12 $
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Photo: Cast of Oulipo Show. ©2013 Stéphane Jasmin.
2013-02-18
Ottawa: NAC French Theatre presents “Oulipo Show” February 27-March 2