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Toronto - March 2023 - Sold out

Ottawa - Feb 2024 - Sold out

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At its core, Le Concierge is about a blue-collar worker in search of a human connection.

You arrive at a school late at night, joining an intimate group of participants in the foyer. A man appears at the end of the hallway and without saying a word, he subtly beckons you to follow him. By seeing his uniform, you suspect he’s the custodian working the graveyard shift. He will guide you through an immersive journey where you will witness all of his attempts to stay awake and motivated, all of the ways he entertains himself and all of his efforts to keep his sanity during his graveyard shift. His loneliness will reveal his vices and virtues, his obsessions, his dreams and his nightmares.

But the later it gets into the evening, the deeper you go into his dream-like world. The school slowly transforms into a frightening and surreal void. The caretaker’s world distorts itself into an inconceivable nightmare and participants will be confronted to reflect on the role of the working class as well as the effects of loneliness on today’s society.

Conceived and Interpreted by: Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin
Co-created by: Daniele Bartolini and Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin
Directed by: Daniele Bartolini
Sound Design: Andrea Gozzi
Lighting Design: Sarah Mansikka
Set and Costume Design: Melanie McNeill

Stage Management: Christoph Ibrahim

Production Manager: Melanie Hall

Dramaturgical Consultant: Joël Beddows
Movement Consultant: Marie-Josée Chartier

A coproduction between Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin,

Théâtre français de Toronto, In association with DopoLavoro Teatrale And Le collectif du concierge

One of

Toronto's

Top Shows

of 2023

What Critics are saying

"the overarching quiet provides a contemplative and meditative effect through the fascinating performance. Director Daniele Bartolini’s vision takes us on a roller-coaster-like, stream-of-consciousness ride through mundane reality and frantic imagination, artistic dreams, and anxious nightmares." - Ilana Lucas, Intermission Magazine

Le Concierge is made possible with the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Arts Council, le Théâtre français de Toronto, l'École secondaire De La Salle, le CEAO, l'École secondaire catholique Saint Frère André, le PSAT, the Paulette Gagnon Award (la Fondation pour l’avancement du théâtre francophone au Canada), the Undercurrents Festival, Théâtre Action, and Theatre Smith-Gilmour (OAC Recommender Grant).