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The Cezanne Syndrome [1988]
(Playwrights Press, New York 1989 et dans la revue Theatrum, Toronto, avril/mai
1989, n° 13)
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Résumé A mechanic tinkering with a motor on his kitchen table, is haunted by his wife who died, along with their child, in a car crash on the Champlain Bridge on July 17, 1986. An investigator from Sûreté du Québec looks at various explanations for the accident, including the possibility that
Gilbert might have been the hit-and-run truck driver who killed his own wife and child. In this
impressionistic whodunit, Gilbert faces the question of personal autonomy while the audience is
faced with multiple perceptions of reality. Extrait « GILBERT : Yes? / THOMAS WANCICOVSKI : Gilbert Martineau? / GILBERT : Speaking. / THOMAS WANCICOVSKI : A red Tercel, licence number AAL 480. Is that you? / GILBERT : Who's speaking? / THOMAS WANCICOVSKI : Captain Wancicovski, of La Sureté du Québec. / GILBERT : Yes, I'm the Tercel. / THOMAS WANCICOVSKI : Well… it's because… » Revue de presse "The Cézanne Syndrome is a map that charts the confusion of grief and the struggle, in theatre as in life, to remember." Mark Gevisser, The Village Voice, New York, 1989. |
