Yukonstyle

At the heart of Yukonstyle we find people stripped of everything they know, flinging themselves into a distant elsewhere to try to numb their pain, or try to find a space large enough to contain the dizziness they feel, to match the Yukon landscape, whose motto is "Larger than life". Sarah Berthiaume gives a voice to disoriented youth in search of their identity, to those shattered solitudes who find themselves lost in a no man's land where it is -45 degrees. In this imaginary Yukon, through the shock of their improbable encounters, emerges a little humanity and a hint of tenderness, that provide them with the resilience to get through the cold and continue their quest. A place where primal dialogues, poetic monologues and narrations meet, revealing the fragments of humanity in an arid and unforgiving environment. Sarah Berthiaume states: "(...) I wanted raw, brave, avid and dazzling characters. Four solitudes that come together, console and love each other despite themselves, the confluence of life and death in the middle of a winter that never ends.” Talisman is excited to bring the framework of Sarah’s francophone lyricism, her magic-realist, tragi-comic perspective to the English stage. This is an important play that embraces thorny topics. “I want to inflate myself with landscape and explode like a birthday balloon; become a rain of confetti that would snow, peaceful, in the sharp Yukon night.” - Kate