Documentary theatre PP`s highlights

Photo: Maxime Côté
Documentary theatre
Liisa Repo-Martell, Eric Peterson & Mariah Inger in Seeds
Porte Parole is a bilingual Montreal-based documentary theatre company, the only one
dedicated exclusively to the genre in Quebec. Porte Parole digs political dialogue and
believes theatre is the best medium to engage in it.
PP’s highlights
2000: Founded by Annabel Soutar and Alex Ivanovici.
2003: Porte Parole—Theatre Company of the Year, the Montreal Gazette.
2005: Seeds—Best English production, Montreal’s Association of French theatre critics.
2000-2011: 7 critically acclaimed productions, Novembre, 2000 Questions, Santé!,
Montréal la Blanche, Seeds, Import/Export and Sexy béton.
2011: PP’s first tour—Sexy béton presented 10 times in Montréal and its area.
2012: Seeds’ remount, directed by Chris Abraham, first out-of-Québec co-production
with Crow’s Theatre, premieres in Toronto and at the Festival TransAmériques.
Grains, Seeds’ French version translated by Fanny Britt, has a successful run at Théâtre
La Licorne in Montreal.
2013: Seeds fills Montreal’s Centaur Theatre. Mind the Gap, a special public
conversation organized and moderated by Annabel Soutar, presents both sides of the
GMO debate at the Center for Canadian Architecture.
2014: Seeds’ first cross-Canada tour, Vancouver’s PuSh Festival, Calgary, and Ottawa’s
National Arts Center. Grains tours the Montreal area.
Total reach: more than 25,000 audience members.
Seeds’ production is nominated in 8 categories at the Montreal English Theatre Awards.
Eric Peterson receives the META for Outstanding Performance-Lead Actor.
Photo: Andrew Krajewski
2015: The Watershed, Porte Parole & Crow’s Theatre new co-production will be
featured in Toronto’s Panamerican, Parapanamerican Games’ Cultural Program.
The play’s French version, Le Partage des eaux, will be presented at Usine C.
Ngozi Paul, Kristen Thomson, Alex Ivanovici & Amalia Sargisson during a staging workshop for
The Watershed.
The Watershed is a docudrama project about a pivotal moment of Canadian history, as
the economy and the environment seem to be necessarily opposed. Researched and
written for today’s audience, The Watershed looks at political conflicts that are
dramatically pitting economic resources against the only essential resource: water.
Seeds : on tour in 2015-2016
Seeds is a dramatic re-enactment of the 4-year legal battle between Saskatchewan
farmer Percy Schmeiser and one of the biggest biotech corporations, Monsanto Inc.
While debates about GMOs are multiplying everywhere, life-changing experiments are
being conducted in the food we eat…
Preview and excerpts of the play: vimeo.com/porteparole
Seeds at the Centaur Theatre, 2013: Presenters’ password protected access
Reviews: Seeds‘ PressKit 2013-2014
Photos: 2012: Crow’s Theatre, Toronto; Photos: Guntar Kravis. Théâtre La Licorne,
Montréal; Photos: Maxime Côté. 2013: Centaur Theatre; Photos: Maxime Côté.
Seeds’ cast & crew: Program-Seeds-on tour Tech rider : Tech Rider Seeds (2014)
“If you see nothing else this year, you will be able to say, I have seen a work of genius on
stage in a Montreal theatre.” Anna Fuerstenberg, Roverarts.com
Photo: Maxime Côté
Seeds: Monsanto vs Schmeiser, GMOs and the seeds of greed
Christine Beaulieu, Marie-Josée Gauthier and Bruce Dinsmore in Grains, the French version of Seeds
Photo: Robert Etcheverry
Sexy béton: the collapse of an overpass and of our social contract
Maude Laurendeau-Mondoux and Paul Stewart in
Sexy béton (2011)
Pierre Collin in Sexy béton
2000 Questions: the underbelly of the capitalist system
2000 Questions, at Place des Arts’ Cinquième Salle in 2002
Santé!: the health care issue in Quebec
In November 2002 and June 2003, at Montreal
McCord Museum
Novembre : Quebec’s politics
In January and February of 2000, at Le Studio
du Monument-National
For more information, please consult our website: www.porteparole.org
Porte Parole is grateful to the CCA, the CALQ and the CAM for their support,
and to La Coop fédérée for their long-term partnership.