Nadia Ross collaborates with George Acheson, who, at the age of sixteen, was kicked out of his house because he would not cut his hair. Now a barber by profession currently living and working in a small village in Quebec, George faces the irony of his fate and looks to the past in an attempt to reconcile a life profoundly marked by the times. Born in 1950, George was an active participant in two counter-cultural movements of the last half of the 20th century. He immersed himself in the social and political upheavals of the 1960’s and, after the movement fizzled out, he found himself working in London, England just as the Punk movement was starting to build. George has spent his life trying to find for himself a ‘way to live’ in a society he feels no kinship with. As he states: “democracy never worked for me, nobody I ever voted for got in”. Now in his mid-fifties, George sees himself as an invisible, generic, middle-aged man. And as such, he has a story to tell.
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Dans ce dernier volet de la trilogie «How can we live ?», l’auteure dramaturge Nadia Ross collabore avec George Acheson qui fut chassé du domicile familial à l’âge de 16 ans, car il refusait de couper ses cheveux. Maintenant barbier de profession ayant élu domicile dans un petit village du Québec, George fait face à l’ironie de son destin et pose un regard sur son passé pour tenter d’en exorciser ce qui l’a profondément marqué à travers différentes époques. Tout au long de sa vie, George a tenté de trouver «une façon de vivre» dans une société avec laquelle il ne se trouve aucune affinité. «La démocratie n’a jamais fonctionné pour moi ; tous ceux pour qui j’ai voté n’ont pas été élus», dit-il. George se considère maintenant comme un cinquantenaire anonyme et ordinaire, et il nous raconte son histoire…
Text et mise en scène/Written and directed by Nadia Ross and George Acheson Interprètes/ Performers George Acheson Nadia Ross WAC director and collaborator: Rob Scott Régisseur/Stage Manager and Technical Director: Richard Desrochers Décor/Set Design: Barry Padolsky Conception des éclairages/Lighting Design: Steve Lucas Video: W.A.C. Mask: Rick Ritza Costume Design: Andy Tait Direction de tournée/Tour Manager: Sarah Rogers PRODUIT PAR/PRODUCED BY STO UNION AND THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH WAC (Wakefield Art Collective) Agent de tounée/Touring Agent: Menno Plukker Theatre Agent Inc. CONTACT TOURING AGENT: Menno Plukker Tel: +1- 514-524-7119 Fax: +1- 514-526-5792 Email: menno@mennoplukker.com sarah@mennoplukker.com