Passagers
Les 7 Doigts
Salle Hydro-Québec
Departure vs. transit vs. arrival. Chance vs. choice vs. destiny. Stillness vs. acceleration. Reflection vs. transparency. Familiar vs. foreign. Private vs. public. Confinement vs. border-crossing. Bright headlights vs. tunnel-darkness. Past vs. future…
Our fascination with trains is both a nostalgic one—dreams of another era, another land—and a symbolic one—life happens along this track of sorts, twisting and turning through valleys and plains. We speed through lands all the while staring out the window at the reflection of our very own eyes superimposed upon the shifting landscape. Tearful goodbyes, anticipated reunions. Fateful encounters inside the cabin. A community of strangers with one thing in common: we all have somewhere to go. Our reasons for leaving may differ, but we are joined in a moment of suspended limbo between two lives, as we say goodbye to one and prepare for another.
What People Are Saying...
Passagers marries imagery, music and acrobatic performances in an evocative and inspiring whirlwind.
Passagers is a multidisciplinary, multisensory show.
With poetry and nostalgia, it’s human beings, in all their diversity, their contradictions and their excesses, that remain at the heart of this show.
Performers
Sereno Aguilar Izzo
Louis Joyal
Maude Parent
Samuel Renaud
Sabine van Rensburg
Brin Schoellkopf
Conor Wild
Freyja Wild
Credits
Original Idea Shana Carroll
Direction and Choreography Shana Carroll Assisted by Isabelle Chassé
Co-Producer TOHU (Montreal, Canada) Arts Emerson (Boston, USA)
Commissioning Partners Moscow Musical Theatre (Moscow, Russia)
Scenography Ana Cappelluto
Musical Director Colin Gagné
Video Designer Johnny Ranger
Lighting Designer Éric Champoux
Costume Designer Camille Thibault-Bédard
Head Coach Francisco Cruz
Project Manager Sabrina Gilbert
Technical Director Simon Lachance
Stage Manager Charlotte Legault
Assistant to the Technical Director Marie-Hélène Grisé
