Declarations

Life in a Thousand Fragments His theatre is fuelled by the unexpected, the unattainable and playfulness, and has launched him at warp speed onto the international stage. At 32, Canadian artist Jordan Tannahill is a force to be reckoned with. His first visit to the FTA involves an impossible quest: portraying the hurly-burly of the elusive sensations, images and impressions that make up a lifetime. Heading home aboard an aircraft shortly after learning that his mother had an incurable cancer, Tannahill wrote in one go hundreds of declarative phrases: This is my left hand / This is an empty promise / This is a broken condom. In the original version of the play, five performers improvised and embodied those statements in a fascinating ballet. Today, the author himself delivers this bewitching litany, in a reading augmented by projections. What is life? What is death? An archive of the senseless abundance of existence in the form of a declaration of love to a dearly departed mother. Festival TransAmériques from May 26 to June 12, 2021.