The dormitory

“Le Dortoir” is a captivating, moving drama starring Gilles Maheu as a troubled soul who seeks solace and understanding for his present pains by returning to the past. It is an adaptation of the multiaward-winning stage production which is widely considered to be Canada’s most successful theatrical export of the last decade. “Le Dortoir” was telecast on CBC Television’s prime time art and culture series, ADRIENNE CLARKSON PRESENTS. “We’re all accustomed to putting what we see into categories –a film, a ballet, a play. But there’s a lot happening artistically in Canada today which cannot be categorized”, said Clarkson. “In Le Dortoir, the innovative Quebec Company Carbone 14 shows us a disturbing, physical and intimate memories, but also their collective ones”. “Symbolically, it says a great deal about a whole generation of Quebec People –their relation to the church, their relation to authority and the structures they had to break out of in order to become themselves. It’s a different way of understanding what Quebec is all about”, concluded Clarkson.