Reading of "Celles d’en Haut/The Women From On High" December 15, 2012

Schedule:
2-3:15pm: Reading in French
3:15-3:30pm: Cocktail Pause
3:35-4:50pm: Reading in English

Cost: Suggested Donation at the door

Celles d’en Haut /The Women From On High was written by playwright Olivier Kemeid (Montréal,Québec) and is directed by Olivier Coyette (Théâtre de Poche, Belgium and Burkina Faso). It will feature Barbara Robertson, of Chicago theater and film acclaim, Park Krausen and Carolyn Cook from Le Théatre du Rêve in Atlanta, and Kevin McCoy, director of Théâtre Humain and collaborator of Robert Lepage’s Ex-Machina company in Quebec.

The piece will be performed entirely in French and then entirely in English with a wine and nibble "pause" between the two versions. Come for one or both. Each version lasts 70 minutes.

Set in an "establishment" and inspired by a Cindy Sherman photograph, this original work by Olivier Kemeid is crazy,colorful shrewd and full of humor. It questions human choices, examines the theme of sickness, the power of medicine and our quickness to submit blindly to it. Within all this and within the walls of the "establishment", lies the “possibility of an island,” medical or not: beneficial and restorative, set apart from the deafening din of the world. A seemingly unlikely but very deep bond develops between the three women at the heart of this play.

The work of Québec playwright Olivier Kemeid has been performed at the Festival d’Avignon, the Red Bull Theater in NYC as well as in Québec, Belgium, Germany and Hungary. He also writes for television. Kemeid also served as Artistic Director of Théâtre Espace Libre in Montreal from 2006 to 2010.

Théâtre du Rêve is the only professional French-language theatre company in the United States, and is dedicated to the performance of high-quality theatre from across the Francophone world right here on the American stage.

Official Website: http://www.mrifce.gouv.qc.ca/portail/_scripts/ViewEvent.asp?EventID=13699&strIdSite=chi&lang=en