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Baroque ensemble on period instruments Francis Colpron, artistic director |
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Seasons > 2009-10 Season > Concerts > TabarinadesSaturday January 30, 2010, 8:00 pm Salle Ludger-Duvernay — Monument-National1182, boulevard Saint-Laurent [métro Saint-Laurent], Montréal, Québec
Carl Béchard «Je joue moi non plus!»Musical theatre in french only. Theatre and Music. With stage director Jean-François Gagnon and actor Carl Béchard. Tabarin, now little-known, was a very funny predecessor of Molière. From up on his stage, surrounded by the actors and musicians of his troupe, “with his endless beard, multiform hat, and baggy pants,” Tabarin entertained passers-by and onlookers on the Pont Neuf and in the place Dauphine. His short farces, accompanied by music, were adaptations into French of the most ludicrous and saucy situations of the commedia dell’arte. He was a master of seventeenth-century vaudeville!
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