Bagne
(Male cast : 1992 – Female cast : 1998)By Pierre-Paul Savoie and Jeff Hall
Introduction
Bagne speaks of love and of liberty and is a metaphor for physical and psychological imprisonment. It is intense, brutal but not without moments of sheer tenderness.
Bagne is an energetic and all-encompassing work. It is a slice of life both sensitive and raw – a reminder, in fact, of how fragile life can be.
Credits
Bagne is a coproduction of PPS Danse, the National Arts Centre, the Banff Centre for the Arts
and Fortune 1000 and was created in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and
le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
- Directors, choreography : Pierre-Paul Savoie, Jeff Hall
- Performers: Pierre-Paul Savoie, Jeff Hall. Carole Courtois, Sarah Williams
- Set Design: Bernard Lagacé
- Composer: Ginette Bertrand (The music for the Little Waltz was composed by Mireille Demers and is performed by Michael Reinhart.)
- Light Design: Marc Parent
- Costumes: Paule-Josée Meunier (male version); Carole Courtois (female version)
- Assistant to the choreographers: Alain Francoeur
- Radio Sketch: Gaétan Nadeau, Harry Standjofski, Michoue Sylvain
- Set construction and mechanical engineering: Tim MacDonald
- Set Curtain: Bernard Lagacé
- Floor cloth painted by: Yolande Brouillard
- Acrobatic consultant: Rénald Bourgeois
- Technical consultants: Pierre Baril, Robert Berthiaume, Mario Brien, Stéphane Cognac, Tim MacDonald