Un nouveau jour

It’s official: Québec is finally a country. To mark this historic moment, the Ministry of Culture recruits four flamboyant creators—trendy, visionary, and… just a little egocentric. Their mission: to create the opening show of the new state. The quartet locks themselves in a room for 24 hours of intensive brainstorming. The problem? They can’t agree on anything. Very quickly, discussions turn into an ideological trench war where egos clash, visions collide, and frustrations mount. How do we define who “we” are when everyone has their own vision of Québec? Will we really have to fall back on the old trio of “hockey, poutine, and Céline”?

Following its successful run in Québec City last fall at Théâtre La Bordée, Un nouveau jour by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard returns for an encore at Duceppe just months after the 30th anniversary of the 1995 referendum. Directed by Michel Nadeau, this exuberant satire—featuring dialogue “as delightful as it is intelligent” (Sors-tu)—relies on an “explosive” cast (Murmures sur les planches) to tackle, with humor, all of our flaws and contradictions as a Québécois people.