Bye Bye Baby 2004 | Bye Bye Baby 2006 | Bye Bye Baby 2009
Bye Bye Baby - in French
“...refreshing as well as inspiring and incredibly innovative.”
Pat Donnelly – THE
GAZETTE, March 20, 2009
«...un agréable moment de théâtre qui risque de nourrir réflexions et conversations sur un sujet délicat.»
Alexandre Cadieux – LE DEVOIR, 24 mars, 2009
«Amusant, intéressant, odyssée iconoclaste, tragicomédie
de l’identité.»
Yves Rousseau – LE QUATRIÈME, 22mars, 2009
«Distillée jusqu’à la dernière goutte, Bye
Bye Baby ne gaspille rien, ni les mots, ni les actrices.»
Mélanie Grondin– THE
ROVER, 24 mars, 2009
«On aura pris plaisir à triompher avec (Ellie) de la terrible
jungle bureaucratique.»
Daphné Bathalon – ZONE CULTURE, 25 mars, 2009
«La jeune comédienne Martine-Marie Lalande fait d’Ellie
un personnage spontanément attachant, charmant, de laquelle on comprend
l’hystérie et la recherche de repères.»
Jimmy Simard – INFO
CULTURE, 23 mars, 2009
Written by: Elyse Gasco
Translated by: Maryse Warda
Directed by: Clare Schapiro
Imago Theatre, in association with the Monument-National, is proud to present the French-language translation of Elyse Gasco’s acclaimed success, Bye Bye Baby, directed anew by Clare Schapiro. The play first premiered in English in 2004 to critical and audience ovation and was subsequently remounted as part of Centaur Theatre’s 2005-06 season.
Bye Bye Baby is a dramatic comedy about truth, redemption and forgiveness; not to mention a secret desire to be Joni Mitchell’s kin. The play follows Ellie, an adopted woman, on her journey through the labyrinth of Quebec’s adoption laws (the strictest in Canada) towards the discovery of her birth mother. Her quest is made all the more pivotal by the arrival of her first child. All too aware of the questions of identity that her new baby will present, she is determined to solve the riddle of her life, once and for all.
Starring:
Nathalie Claude (Image-Elle)
Martine-Marie Lalande (Elle)
Dominique Leduc (Adoptive Mother)
Mathilde Monnard (Image-Birthmother)
Felicia Shulman (Babs Dubois)
Creative Team:
Set Designer: Yannick Larivée
Costume Designer: Amy Keith
Lighting Designer: David Perreault Ninacs
Original Music: Isabelle Lussier
Assistant Director and Stage Manager: Luciana Burcheri
March 19-28, 2009
At the Monument-National's Studio Hydro-Québec
1182 St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal
Reservations: 514-871-2224
Tuesday to Saturday at 8:30 pm
Matinee: Saturdays at 2pm
Tickets: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors (tax and service charges apply)
L'instant même has published the French Bye Bye Baby script.
Creation of Bye Bye Baby in 2004
Production at Centaur
Theatre in 2006