March 4 – March 7
Giant Mine
In-house production
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Description
Giant Mine is a co-production of Marie-Ève Fontaine and Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario. In 2020, Marie-Ève is in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. There, she learns of the existence of Giant Mine, located on the shores of Great Slave Lake. It is said that a monster lives beneath the floor of the old gold mine. The monster is 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide, a highly toxic by-product of gold mining. The melting permafrost has scientists worried: what will happen if the lake water reaches the arsenic cavities? A potential catastrophe for the ecosystem and surrounding communities.
Marie-Ève is bowled over by this story, which reveals the seriousness of the pollution generated by Canada’s extractive industries. Is this mining venture worth the cost? What is our relationship with the land? Can we reconcile our material demands with an ecological stance? To better understand the issues at stake, Marie-Ève embarked on a cross-Canada investigation, from Yellowknife to Sudbury. Giant Mine is the result of this investigation.
Age: 14 +
Location: Le Studio Desjardins, Place des Arts du Grand Sudbury
Credits
Artistic direction and text
- Marie-Ève Fontaine
Director
- Miriam Cusson
Distribution
- Marie-Ève Fontaine
- France Huot
- Ben Nind
- Jocelyn Sioui
Stage manager and assistant to the director
- Sasha Hayashi
Sound
- Thomas Sinou
Lighting
- Emilio Sebastiao
Set design
- Marie-Pierre Proulx
Technical ideation
- Benoit Brunet-Poirier
Costumes
- Isabelle Ratté
Dramaturgical consultants
- Miriam Cusson
- Maureen Labonté
Accomplice to the creation
- France Huot
Research team
- Marie-Ève Fontaine
- with the help of Michel Laforge
- Zoé LeGallic-Massie
- Guillaume Saindon
Production managers
- Céline Lepage
- Anne Parent
Participation to the creation
- Guillaume Saindon
- Valentin Foch
Surtitles
- Alex Tétreault
A co-production by
Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Marie-Ève Fontaine and Théâtre français du Centre national des arts
Project realized with the support of the Festival TransAmériques, as part of the FTA’s Respirations program, Théâtre Action’s dramaturgical consulting program, as well as the Fondation pour l’avancement du théâtre francophone au Canada and the RBC National Excellence Award.
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Giant Mine
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