Cultural suggestions | Plans for the weekend

Theater, musical shows and readings are on the menu for our journalists, who offer you their great finds here.

An animated tale by Jim Henson

A new kind of tale comes to life in the exhibition hall at Place des Arts. After a screening at the Venice Film Festival last year, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: The Seven Ravens makes its North American premiere in Montreal. This immersive experience created by Montreal studios Félix & Paul is presented in partnership with Phi. On site, each visitor is given a book with blank pages. Thanks to augmented reality glasses, the story comes alive as you turn the pages. Narrated by actor James Hyndman, the tale follows young Emma, ​​whose seven brothers, victims of bad luck, were transformed into crows on the day of her birth. At the dawn of adolescence, she undertakes a long journey through blazing fields, a burning desert and a stormy ocean to restore them to their original form. Free, but reservations are required.

From October 15, 2024 to February 23, 2025

Véronique Larocque, The Press

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A meeting with David Foenkinos

French writer David Foenkinos will be in Montreal for a quick visit this weekend, before hitting the road for the Québec en tous lettres literary festival. Saturday evening, he will be at the Gallimard bookstore, boulevard Saint-Laurent, to discuss his work and his most recent novel, Happy lifein which he discusses the desire to change his life by exploring a strange ritual, discovered during a trip to Seoul, South Korea. The discussion will be moderated by Ariane Cipriani.

October 19, at 6 p.m.

Then Maalouf, The Press

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I’m writing to you in the middle of a beautiful storm

The Théâtre du Nouveau Monde once again welcomes one of its most delicate productions from last season: I’m writing to you in the middle of a beautiful storm. The play revolves around the epistolary love story which united the French author Albert Camus (Steve Gagnon) and the Spanish actress Maria Casarès (stunning Anne Dorval). These two sacred monsters loved each other for 15 years. A moving piece due to the sublime beauty of the narrative (Dany Boudreault signs the adaptation). To the direction, Maxime Carbonneau adds several strong images that stick to our retina for a long time. A magnificent spectacle.

At the TNM, from October 22 to 27, then on tour in seven cities in Quebec

Stéphanie Morin, The Press

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Danny Brown at the SAT

This Thursday, the inimitable Danny Brown will perform at the Society of Technological Arts (SAT). Known for his energy, the Detroit rapper excels in mixing genres, offering songs that can veer into punk and alternative as well as pure boom bap. He released two of the most celebrated albums on the hip-hop planet in 2023: Fortyhis sixth studio album, has been described by its author as his most personal, as the MC talks about – among other things – his time in rehab; Scaring the Hoesa collaboration with JPEGMafia, offers experimental rap with industrial sounds. Let us mention in passing that JPEGMafia will be performing at MTelus on November 19.

Pascal LeBlanc, The Press

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This hill is never truly silent

Only three evenings left to attend one of the most disturbing shows of last season, repeated this year at the Théâtre Prospero. Gabriel Charlebois-Plante pens the text and the direction of this rereading of the myth of Sisyphus. Here, four beings are stuck in an infinite circle of starting over, overwhelmed as they are by the incalculable tasks to accomplish. The outside world? He only appears to them through their bedroom window. A barely distorting mirror that gives us an absurd or downright crazy image of our sometimes insane lives. Until Saturday October 19.

Stéphanie Morin, The Press

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Maude Audet at the Golden Lion

Last opportunity this Thursday to attend the very beautiful show by Maude Audet in Montreal, We have to leave nowwhose tour is almost over. To see the singer-songwriter on stage is to enter a soft and enveloping world, where each element of the scenography is carefully considered. The singer with a certain charisma sketches dance movements which add to the warm atmosphere by giving it a theatrical aura, and the whole perfectly supports a slightly retro, poetic and luminous folk-pop repertoire. To stock up on beauty, this is where you need to be.

Josée Lapointe, The Press

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