A play for children 5 years old and up

The Dressmaker

A theatrical exploration of visual arts and generations.

DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED

Ariane, a painter, invites us into her studio and leads us to the discovery of Blanche, her grand-mother who was a seamstress. Throughout the labyrinth of paintings, threads, traces, there are some standstill moments to tell a story, follow a thread or lose it, look at a painting, bring back a memory. And this is how everything begins… with white, with emptiness. This journey where theatre meets visual arts and generations is meant for an audience of 30 people (children and adults) or a school class at a time.


La Couturière reaches us through its universal themes: our heritage from the past, human beings we love who get old and die, the transmission of humane experience to other generations and reparation in all forms, sometimes with a thread and a needle, sometimes, in a metaphoric way, the reparation of the world’s wounds.
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.