72 minutes of creative chaos as Quebec's theatre royalty births a masterpiece.
Making of documentary filmed over months of rehearsal and experimentation between director André Brassard and the cast to flesh out Michel Tremblay's "Messe solennelle pour une pleine lune d’été".
Direction
Coulbois captures artistic birth without intruding.
Acting
Tremblay's troupe trusts the camera completely.
Production
Raw rehearsal space becomes sacred ground.
Director
Jean-Claude Coulbois
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This documents a pivotal moment in Quebec theatre history—Tremblay and Brassard were the Lennon-McCartney of francophone stage.
The title's pun on 'naissance' (birth) and 'messe' (mass) mirrors the sacred-profane tension in all Tremblay's work.
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