Suggested by the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Emilie is neither a biographical nor a historical play, but rather a piece about language and music. From her garden where she is both flower and gardener, Emilie watches over her mother's slow, sleepy death. And through the sheer force of words, she explores, with her sister Uranie, the world and the divine, the notion of absence and the gentle embrace of time.

« EMILIE : she sleeps | a bit more every day | deliberate | with lots of energy | when she sleeps through daylight and nightlight | all day all night | she'll begin to really die | to die completely / URANIE : You say that with so much certainty / EMILIE : it's as obvious as a lilac | you can see she's dreaming | you can see her different ages | you can see that she is still | tallying up | you can see that she is tallying up (Blueness. [black-out]) »

"Émilie is theatre that whispers to the ear, that strokes the heart ever so gently (...)" Michelle Talbot, Dimanche-Matin, Montreal, November 1, 1981.