Resurrected from the dead, Mommy returns to haunt Québec and takes revenge on the living.
Horrified by today’s world, this undead grandmother dreams of restoring a bygone golden age. To achieve her goal, she transforms her ideological opponents into zombies, enlisting them in a chillingly fascist social project. By turns martyr, pop star and tyrant, Mommy constantly reinvents herself to seduce the masses.
In this political satire staged as a rap performance, Olivier Choinière subverts theatrical conventions to expose the rise of reactionary rhetoric. Blending storytelling, lip-sync, original songs, choreography and gory special effects, the production plunges audiences into a world where the undead seize power under the guidance of a live DJ with a messianic aura.
Exhilarating, irreverent and fiercely timely, "Mommy, the Return" is a theatrical release as delirious as it is disturbing.
— Target audience: 14 years and up
In this political satire staged as a rap performance, Olivier Choinière subverts theatrical conventions to expose the rise of reactionary rhetoric. Blending storytelling, lip-sync, original songs, choreography and gory special effects, the production plunges audiences into a world where the undead seize power under the guidance of a live DJ with a messianic aura.
Exhilarating, irreverent and fiercely timely, "Mommy, the Return" is a theatrical release as delirious as it is disturbing.
— Target audience: 14 years and up
Price
From $49.00
Language
French
Audience
General
Collaborators
Olivier Choinière
Author
Olivier Choinière
Stage design
Stéphanie Capistran-Lalonde
Stage design
Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui
Producer
Théâtre français du Centre national des arts
Producer
Price
From $49.00
Language
French
Audience
General