Paul à la maison

Show Theatre · Comedy
Dates

June 12 to 22, 2025

8 performances

Price
Regular: 30 to 90 $ Tx and fees incl.

Accomplished cartoonist Paul lives alone in his Ahuntsic home with his dog Biscuit. He recently turned 50, and everything around him is falling apart: his wife has left him, his mother has cancer, and his daughter wants to move to London. Even his apple tree is sick! Paul feels like time is catching up with him. But the time he spends in the wilderness, with no lack of self-deprecation, has a therapeutic effect, and little by little, Paul learns to let go and embrace his new life.

Playwright Anne-Marie Olivier has adapted the graphic novel Paul at Home, a foray into the personal life of Michel Rabagliati, told with humour and a great deal of tenderness by the celebrated cartoonist, who had a hand in every stage of the script writing. An icon of Québec culture, the Paul series speaks to every generation with its truth, humour and authenticity. Director Lorraine Côté transposes this episode from the graphic novel panel to the stage, embracing both the dark corners and the light of this everyday hero’s world, drawing on the codes of shadow theatre, the theatre of objects and direct cinema, while giving Michel Rabagliati’s drawings – which have won the hearts of readers the world over – pride of place.

  • Language French
  • Series En rappel
  • Interpretation

    Valérie Boutin, Étienne d’Anjou, Hugues Frenette, Paul Fruteau de Laclos, Odile Gagné-Roy, Marie-Ginette Guay, Nadia Girard Eddahia

    Text

    Michel Rabagliati

    Adaptation for the stage

    Anne-Marie Olivier

    Stage direction

    Lorraine Côté

    Staging assistance

    Thomas Royer

    Staging advice

    Christian Fontaine

    Costumes

    Julie Morel

    Lighting

    Mathieu C. Bernard

    Music

    Mathieu Turcotte

    Accessories

    Marianne Lebel

    Video

    Étienne d’Anjou

    Hairstyling

    Myriam Richer

    Makeup

    Vanessa Cadrin

    Puppet design

    Annabelle Roy

  • Production / Presentation

    Duceppe

    Production

    Le Trident

    Co-presentation

    Grand Théâtre de Québec

« Toute l’équipe, de la conception des décors à la mise en scène et aux comédiens, peut dire mission accomplie » - « Hugues Frenette est tout simplement brillant » - Le décor donne l’impression au spectateur qu’il tourne les pages de l’album sans même s’en redre compte »

Alexandre Caputo Journal de Québec

« Superbe mise en scène de Lorraine Côté » - on reconnaît avec plaisir l’univers familier de Michel Rabagliati et ses sympathiques personnages dans cette adaptation aussi divertissante que touchante »

Valérie Marcoux, Le Soleil

« Hugues Frenette est tout simplement brillant »

Alexandre Caputo Journal de Québec

« Le décor donne l’impression au spectateur qu’il tourne les pages de l’album sans même s’en rendre compte »

Alexandre Caputo Journal de Québec
01/04

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