The Night Logan Woke Up

We are at the funeral home. Tonight, brothers, sister, and in-laws are gathered around the body of the deceased mother. It is often an opportunity to meet up, a death. It’s been a good while since they had seen each other, those five. Life, work… Strange place, you might say, but, it must be said that one of the daughters is a thanatopractor... so she decides that it is she who will embalm the departed. And that, that already causes stories… As the hours go by, secrets will surface, skeletons will come out of the closets... and the lie will burst into broad daylight. It will be a question of coffin size, bank accounts, and other pettiness. Of childhood memories too... And of love obviously, especially of love. Of love unsaid, envied, whispered, missed. Love between people of the same family is never an easy thing. With his very beautiful writing, Michel Marc Bouchard offers once again to the artists a magnificent score with accents of black humor, a fierce and intelligent score. When tongues loosen, truths come out of the woods, and we learn that, at night, when “he” woke up, terrible things happened in this family… A family portrait without concession, without frills either, cash and poignant, which holds up a mirror to us, funny, tender, and cruel. Family life is always intense, especially during a death, when the broken parts meet again and the puzzle is recomposed to face the buried truths. _______ By: Michel Marc Bouchard / Director: Jeanne Kacen / With: Baptiste Blampain, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Janine Godinas, Clément Manuel, Nicole Oliver, Fabrice Rodriguez, Camille Vandevelde / Assistant Director: Virgile Magniette / Scenography: Anne Guilleray / Costumes: Chandra Vellut / Lighting: Alain Collet / Sound: Guillaume Istace _______ A PRODUCTION OF THÉÂTRE LE PUBLIC. WITH THE HELP OF THE WALLONIA-BRUSSELS FEDERATION – DEPARTMENT OF THEATER, AND THE SUPPORT OF THE TAX SHELTER OF THE BELGIAN FEDERAL STATE VIA BESIDE. Based on “La Nuit where Laurier Gaudreault woke up” by the same author.