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Inuussia, the Seal Woman [2006]
Création Théâtre Motus, 2006 Traducteur(s) Maurice Roy (Auteur masculin) Nombre de personnages 1 Personnage(s), 1 Femme(s), 1 Acteur(s) Particularités distribution 1 Woman and puppeteers-musicians and 5 puppets |  |
Résumé An old woman appears among the snow drifts. She is a seal woman. A long time ago, she shed her whitecoat skin and left the cold waters of the Great North to live on dry land as an Inuit woman. Having reached the end of her life, she returns to the seashore to share her knowledge with Teereloo, the little whitecoat she has adopted. She offers her songs, her rituals and her culture to the whitecoat and recounts her life, from her birth in an igloo to the arrival of the white man. But beware of the mysterious white bear lurking closeby …
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- Décor: When the audience enters the house, incidental music creates a mood that puts the audience in the arctic tundra: wind, dogs and wolves howling, inuktitut words. The atmosphere becomes increasingly aquatic with whales sounds, lapping water and ice cracking. A seal is seen swimming up to the surface. It turns into a little girl who begins to run on the packice. As she runs, pieces of ice light up when she steps on them. She is running towards the horizon.
From the far off tundra, an old Inuit woman comes on stage. She is wearing a white amautiq (typical Inuit woman's coat) with a fur collar. There is a hump on her back because she is carrying something. You get the feeling that she has been outside for a long time. Her cheeks are red and her hood is almost completely hiding her face. She hums an Inuit song.
- Caractéristiques des personnages: THE CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY
The seal woman
Performed by an actress, this old Inuit woman could be a grandmother, but she never had children. She was born a whitecoat (baby seal) and the seal women gave her their gift. As a result, she can live as a seal or shed her skin and live as a human being. During her long life, she lost her seal skin. From that point on, she began to adopt whitecoats (female baby seals) so that they too could become seal women.
Teereloo ( which means bearded baby seal in the Inuit language)
A puppet is sued to represent a female baby seal. It has been an orphan since birth and the old seal woman found her on a piece of packice and adopted her. Before long, it will become a seal woman and must learn to defend itself and survive in the far north as a human being.
Nanuk, the white bear
The sound of a gut bucket and a light projection in shadow theatre are used to represent Nanuk. It stands for danger and death. Nanuk is constantly lurking around the old woman and Teereloo.
The little puppet
It is a little puppet that represents both the old woman when she was young and the old woman's doll that her parents made for her.
The musicians
There are 2 musicians on stage. They play the music and the soundscape live. They represent the force of nature and accompany the old woman as she reminisces. They conjure up and bring about elements of nature such as animals, the wind, the sun, the moon, the blizzard and the northern lights.
Extrait « SEAL WOMEN : On some white moonlit nights, seal women spread this melody throughout the tundra. That's the call Tirilou. The call to baby seals looking for a family. | This is where I became a human being for the first time. | Come and see Teereelou. | She pushes the hood of her amautiq back and the head of a baby seal appears. | I was just a tiny baby seal like you, and when I heard the call, I couldn't keep from answering it. »
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