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Synopsis

An actress on stage, her iphone as her only partner.

[Created in coproduction at FTA en 2016]

With a performer on stage and Siri, the iPhone’s personal assistant, as her only stage partner, director Maxime Carbonneau and performer Laurence Dauphinais invent a theatre ruled by odds and chances. One of the first people in Canada created by artificial insemination, Dauphinais takes the audience on a quest for her origins using the most famous artificial intelligence as her guide. Through a precise game of questions and answers, Dauphinais exposes the bizarre metaphysical dimension of the machine, while blurring the limitations that separate these two women, one digital, the other biological, one created by Apple, the other created in a medical lab in Montreal. Siri is a terrifyingly clever pilgrimage into the mysteries of our own programming.

Lenght - 1 h 10

There’s 3 versions of the show: portuguese, french, and english.

Presented at Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui

Presented in english at Canada Hub / International Fringe FEstival, Edinburgh

Presented at Hub Montreal

Produced in potuguese at Centre culturel Oi Futuro Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro au Brésil.


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Informations

Written by

Maxime Carbonneau, Laurence Dauphinais and Siri

Directed by

Maxime Carbonneau

With

Laurence Dauphinais et Siri

Production and Stage Manager

Jérémie Boucher

Set and Costume design

Geneviève Lizotte

Lighting design

Julie Basse


Video design

Félix Fradet-Faguy

Original score

Olivier Girouard


Outside eye and Dramaturg

Dany Boudreault et Tiphaine Raffier 


Critiques

We will look back and remember this as a seminal show.

[Émilie Perreault, Puisqu’il faut se lever, 98,5 FM]

[Siri] explodes theatrical convention.

★★★★

[Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph]

Siri is a thought-provoking exploration of the silent partners we all carry in our pocket.

★★★★

[Broadway Baby, UK]

Carbonneau’s and Dauphinais’ approach is brilliant, and questions what part chance, forges our identity. After all, humans, may be, just machines like the any other.

[Luc Boulanger, Cahier Arts, La Presse]


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