Sisters, the Warm Embrace

Véronique Côté has the innate gift of choosing the right words and images to softly talk to children. […] This magnificient new production embraces… the heart and soul of both young and old.

David Lefebvre, montheatre.qc.ca, November 2016

… A chest like Sisters, the Warm Embrace cuddles a lot of eyes and ears.

Conception and direction: Véronique Côté

Set, costumes and props: Erica Schmitz

Music: Josué Beaucage

Lighting: Jean-François Labbé

Cast: Marie-Josée Bastien and Agnès Zacharie

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“Going to the theatre for the first time is a very special, tenuous, thrilling and joyous moment. There are so many things to experience, all at the same time. One day I learned that theatre for very young children is a place where one can experiment with emotions. It is vast and very impressive; it cuts to our very core. We don’t always understand what’s happening, which can be scary, but it’s not dangerous. I think this is something I would have liked to learn more about earlier on in life. In fact, I think it’s something I’m still learning about. Being upset is never dangerous.

For me, talking about sadness to very young children is, above all, really talking to them about what makes my heart heavy and how I learned to console myself at times when I was too cold. But, especially, it involves talking to them about the new beginnings that I discovered in the wake of sorrow, always and every time.”

Véronique Côté

For Véronique Côté, Sisters, the Warm Embrace marks a third collaboration with Théâtre des Confettis. In 2004, she was part of original creation cast in Jean-Frédéric Messier’s Wigwam and she create Waves, all that Glows Sees in 2012.

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