Mika, l’enfant pleureur is Pascal Chevarie’s first professional production since he obtained his diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada. This 12th creation of Théâtre Bouches Décousues is at the center of the company’s 20th season and the first one signed by a young author invited by artistic director and in-house author Jasmine Dubé. For this occasion, the director Éric Jean chose to surround himself with actors who also are musicians. Following the company’s tradition, children assisted and participated in the different stages of the creation of this play.
Mika, l’enfant pleureur is a story about friendship, solidarity and hope. It talks about the meaning of life, the search for a better world, departures, encounters and far away places where fate has struck. The subtlety of the writing proposes a beautiful and poetic language, a strong and universal discourse and fascinating characters. In these troubled times when war extends its tentacles all around the planet, a young boy wishes his tears will extinguish the fury of a barbarian world. Firm believer in his quest, Mika the young member of a new resistance, lifts up mountains and wakes up dormant hope inside the human beings he encounters.

La Couturière is an invitation to visit an artist’s studio where everything begins with white: the author's page, the painter's canvas, the seamstress's bolt of cloth, the screen of light… La Couturière weaved her first thread in 2000. Jasmine Dubé and Sylvie Gosselin, both impassioned by theatre and visual arts, have wished to see these arts meet on stage. The creation of this show started among children, in an empty school class… From thread to needle, from writings to paintings, from workshops with children to workshops with artists, they prepared, with the complicity of Sonia Cloutier, an intimate journey for an audience of 30 people at a time, which can easily be adapted to different theatres’ geometry.

In her most recent creation, Jasmine Dubé transforms the stage into a mirror of the world and tackles important questions about the future of the planet. Le Pingouin is a coproduction of Théâtre Bouches Décousues and the National Arts Center’s French Theatre. The play was first performed at the Beloeil Cultural Center where it was awarded the 2001-2002 Audience Award. The play was also nominated in 2003 for the Académie québécoise du théâtre Best production for Young Audiences award.
Le Pingouin is published by Lanctôt Éditeur.Translation by Linda Gaboriau, 2004.

This show reminds us of the wild and civilized parts of ourselves and makes us realize how precious and fragile the world we live in is. This show was awarded the 1999-2000 Audience Award by the Beloeil Cultural Center and was nominated for the Académie québécoise du théâtre Best production for Young Audiences award. During Spring 2001, La Mère Merle visited Reims, Angoulême and Strasbourg in France.
La Mère Merle is published by Lanctôt Éditeur.

Alone in her boat, the survivor of a flood, Norah has only herself to count on for survival. This play was staged read at Carrefour international de théâtre in Quebec city and at Le Rendez-vous international de théâtre jeune public in Montreal. In 1998, Les Gros Becs productions invited Théâtre Bouches Décousues in Quebec city to first perform L'Arche de Noémie. The following year, the Théâtrales association welcomed Jasmine Dubé in France for the reading of her play, at the Saint-Denis library. In 2002, this show was presented at the Méli'Môme festival in Reims and at La Tête dans les nuages festival in Angoulême, beginning a long European tour. Nominated for the 1997 Radio France Internationale / Francophonie Jeunesse award and for the Governor general's award in the drama category, L'Arche de Noémie is published by Lanctôt Éditeur and is in the Théâtrales repertoire (Paris).
Translation by Linda Gaboriau, 1999.

As an introduction to theatre for the very young, Le Bain / Bathtime offers a sweet meeting-place for a child and his adult. First performed at the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Le Bain was honored with the 1997-1998 Audience Award by the Beloeil Cultural Center, in addition to being nominated for the Académie québécoise du théâtre Best production for Young Audiences award. This show has been performed in French and English in the province of Quebec, at Le Rendez-vous international de théâtre jeune public in Montreal, La Semaine mondiale de la marionette in Jonquiere and at the Toronto Milk International Children's Festival. Le Bain is published by Lanctôt Éditeur.
Translation by Linda Gaboriau, 1998.

Solitude and homelessness are the essence of this play poetically written by Jasmine Dubé. First performed at La Maison Théâtre, this production created a precedent while winning, in 1996, three awards at the Académie québécoise du théâtre gala. For the first time, a production for young audiences was honored with the Best new play and Best directing awards, honors previously only awarded to productions for adults. Best Production for Young Audiences of the Year in 1995–96, this play was also nominated in the Best actress, Original Sets and Costumes categories. In 1998, Théâtre Bouches Décousues performed La Bonne Femme at Théâtre La montagne magique in Brussels, its very first performance on the European continent.
La Bonne Femme is published by Leméac Éditeur.

Madam Minister is imperative : she does not like children! Power is at the center of this play which also tackles relations between adults and between adults and children. First performed at Le Rendez-vous international de théâtre jeune public in Montreal, this play has also been performed by Canadian and European theatre companies.
Pierrette Pan, ministre de l’Enfance et des Produits dérivés is published by Leméac Éditeur.
Translation by Linda Gaboriau, 1999.

First performed at Le Rendez-vous international de théâtre jeune public in Montreal, this show talks about the tenderness a father feels for his child and presents a situation in which, on a Saturday morning, very early, too early, love suffers from a time-lag. Petit Monstre has toured Quebec and, in its English version, has been performed at the Milk International Children’s Festival in Toronto and at the Philadelphia International Theatre Festival for Children, TBD’s first trip to the United States. In the 1991–92 season, the association of Quebec theatre critics honored Petit Monstre with its Best Production for Young Audiences award; the play was also nominated for the Governor General’s Award in the drama category.
Petit Monstre is published by Leméac Éditeur.
Translation by Maureen Labonté, 1993.

Jouons avec les livres foretells the end of a more didactic creative period for Jasmine Dubé who will then dedicate herself to a more poetic work for the very young, the young and young teenagers. Presented in collaboration with Communication-Jeunesse, this play invites children aged 3 to 6 years old to a book celebration, a very special one for books written and published in Quebec.
Jouons avec les livres is available at Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD), Montreal.

Le mot de passe is about prudence; carefulness both when we cross the streets and when we meet known and unknown people. This play is Théâtre Bouches Décousues’s first production for a very young audience.
Le mot de passe is available at Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD), Montreal.

In the company’s first play, Jasmine Dubé tackles the difficult issue of unwelcome sexual advances. Nominated for the Alvine-Bélisle award in 1986, this play was a great success in Canada and was later performed in Europe by theatre companies from Switzerland and Belgium. Bouches Décousues is published by Leméac Éditeur.
Translation: Unbutton those lips by Geoffroy Dyson, 1991