Image by Noémie Roy Lavoie / Performer Bruno Verdoni
In a world of beauty and intimacy, a recovery room has become a playground, a place conducive to fantasy but also to regrets. Quietly, subtly, painfully, the inability of a couple to return to daily life is revealed to them and to us. Hope becomes unhealthy. She visits him at the hospital every day to share touching moments, a man who can no longer remember anything. Their conversations, often comical, gradually lift the veil on the reproaches of the past and an intense love, the last vestiges of a memory shattered by a serious accident.
Directed by Joël Beddows, assisted by Marie-Josée Chartier for choreography and staging, and performed by two exceptional actors, Bruno Verdoni and Claire Marchand, L’exercice de l’oubli (based on the book by Acadian writer Emma Haché) is filled with beauty, tenderness and grief. A co-production of Le Théâtre Populaire d’Acadie and Le Théâtre français de Toronto.