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ROBERT MOULE

By Martin Bellemare | Translated to English by Jack Paterson
Translated from Moule Robert

December 15, 2023
Digital

Featuring Angelica Servan, Des Fleming, Luana Holtz, & Seamus Hewison | Produced by Jack Paterson & Ayvianna Snow

“With Moule Robert, Martin Bellemare offers us a text of dazzling formal mastery (…). This virtuosic inventiveness is at the service of the ethical questions dividing our society. In his own way, Martin Bellemare wrestles with the question that haunted Brecht: how to be good in a world that is not?” – Prix Michel-Tremblay Jury

Robert Moule is a very ordinary man who works in a daycare. One day, he grabs a girl from the daycare by the arm and finds himself accused of sexual assault. He descends into a Kafka-like journey of inner decay and comic absurdity.

This translation was made possible by a translation grant from Canada Council for the Arts