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In 2013, she created a collage of texts by Nelly Arcan and staged the piece, titled in ''French La Fureur de ce que je pense'' (The Fury of my Thoughts) at Espace Go in Montreal. Her play Peepshow was restaged actress Monia Chokri as the protagonist. She then began a residency at the Montevideo centre in Marseille.
In 2013, she created a collage of texts by Nelly Arcan and staged the piece, titled in ''French La Fureur de ce que je pense'' (The Fury of my Thoughts) at Espace Go in Montreal. Her play Peepshow was restaged actress Monia Chokri as the protagonist. She then began a residency at the Montevideo centre in Marseille.


Since a few years, she is as well working as a dance dramaturge and director. She has created two dance pieces in collaboration with dancer choreographer Sarah Williams Moving in this World (2014), developed in residency in Potsdam, that was presented in Montreal, Potsdam and in Madrid, and States of Transe (2013) and she choreographed a short solo for her, part of the triptych Ici est toujours ailleurs (2010). She as well elaborated a solo piece with dancer choreographer Anne Plamondon, Les mêmes yeux que toi (The same eyes) (2012), presented in Montreal and on tour in Quebec and Ottawa. Marie danced as well in two Isabelle Van Grimde pieces (Perspectives Montreal and The Bodies in Question), and collaborated and worked in different ways with choreographers and dancers Annik Hamel, Jane Mappin, Dana Gingras and Karine Denault.
Later in her career, Brassard began working as a dance dramaturge and director. She created two dance pieces in collaboration with dancer choreographer Sarah Williams: ''Moving in this World'' (2014), developed in residency in Potsdam, was presented in Montreal, Potsdam and in Madrid, and ''States of Transe'' (2013). Brassard also choreographed several short pieces in collaboration with a number of choreographers. She danced in two Isabelle Van Grimde pieces (''Perspectives Montreal'' and ''The Bodies in Question'').

Brassard has appeared in a number of films, including those by Robert Lepage, Michael Winterbottom, Guy Maddin, Ryan McKenna, Denis Côté, Sophie Deraspe et Stéphane Lafleur.


She occasionally works in cinema, and has appeared in films by Robert Lepage, Michael Winterbottom, Guy Maddin, Ryan McKenna, Denis Côté, Sophie Deraspe et Stéphane Lafleur, among others.
She was recently awarded L'Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec.
She was recently awarded L'Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec.


==Plays==
*2015: ''Peepshow (2015)''
*2015: ''Peepshow (2015)''
*2014: ''The Darkness, revisited''
*2014: ''The Darkness, revisited''
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*2001: ''Jimmy''
*2001: ''Jimmy''


==Film appearances==
==Filmography==
*1997: ''[[Le Polygraphe]]''
*1997: ''[[Le Polygraphe]]''
*1998: ''[[Nô (film)|Nô]]''
*1998: ''[[Nô (film)|Nô]]''

Revision as of 18:08, 19 February 2018

Marie Brassard is an actress, author and director. She is known for her work with playwright and actor Robert Lepage[1] and later for her own French and English theatrical pieces, which have been presented in many countries in the Americas, Europe and in Australia.

Career

Brassard performed and co-created with Lepage between the years 1985 and 2000 in theatre (The Dragons’ Trilogy, Polygraph, The Seven Streams of the River Ota, The Shakespeare Trilogy: Coriolanus, The Tempest and Macbeth) and in films ( Polygraph, NÔ ). In 2001, she created her first solo play, Jimmy, within the framework of the Festival TransAmériques.

The success of the play led Brassard to found her own production company, Infrarouge, and to begin to work solo. Since then, in collaboration with guest artists from different disciplines and origins, she has created surrealist theatre with and innovative video, light and sound installations, including The Darkness (2003), Peepshow (2005), The Glass Eye (2007), The Invisible (2008), Me Talking to Myself in the Future (2010) and Trieste (2013).

Brassard's plays have been performed at the Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris, The Studio at the Sydney Opera in Australia, the Barbican Centre in London UK, the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Sophiensaele in Berlin, the Halle G im Museums Quartier and Brut im Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, The Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre in Melbourne and Le Teatro de La Abadia in Madrid.

In 2013, she created a collage of texts by Nelly Arcan and staged the piece, titled in French La Fureur de ce que je pense (The Fury of my Thoughts) at Espace Go in Montreal. Her play Peepshow was restaged actress Monia Chokri as the protagonist. She then began a residency at the Montevideo centre in Marseille.

Later in her career, Brassard began working as a dance dramaturge and director. She created two dance pieces in collaboration with dancer choreographer Sarah Williams: Moving in this World (2014), developed in residency in Potsdam, was presented in Montreal, Potsdam and in Madrid, and States of Transe (2013). Brassard also choreographed several short pieces in collaboration with a number of choreographers. She danced in two Isabelle Van Grimde pieces (Perspectives Montreal and The Bodies in Question).

Brassard has appeared in a number of films, including those by Robert Lepage, Michael Winterbottom, Guy Maddin, Ryan McKenna, Denis Côté, Sophie Deraspe et Stéphane Lafleur.

She was recently awarded L'Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Plays

  • 2015: Peepshow (2015)
  • 2014: The Darkness, revisited
  • 2013: La Fureur de ce que je pense
  • 2013: Trieste
  • 2010: Me talking to Myself in the Future
  • 2008: The Invisible
  • 2007: The Glass Eye
  • 2005: Peepshow
  • 2003: The Darkness
  • 2001: Jimmy

Film appearances

References

  1. ^ New York Times. The New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998. Psychology Press; 2 January 2001. ISBN 978-0-8153-3341-8. p. 274–.