Tintamarre theatre company

Tintamarre is a bilingual theatre troupe that was founded at Mount Allison University by Alex Fancy.

The troupe has staged over fifty shows in Mount Allison's Windsor Theatre, located in Sackville, New Brunswick. Each year Tintamarre produces a bilingual collective, created through a process of guided improvisation. The troupe tours annually to junior and senior high schools throughout the Maritime provinces. Performances are followed by discussions with the audience.

The company aims to promote the acceptance of cultural and linguistic diversity and to encourage a better appreciation of the role that theatre can play in education.

Alex Fancy, a Professor of Drama at Mount Allison University, was a recipient of the New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor's Dialogue Award for his efforts to promote understanding and respect between the two official linguistic communities of the province through the theatre troupe.

Name

Tintamarre is a word of Acadian origin meaning clamour or din. This term is used to describe the arrival of thousands of migrating waterfowl to the greater Sackville area every year.

Production history

*1968: "Huis Clos" by Jean-Paul Sartre
*1970: "Le Médecin malgré lui" by Molière
*1971: "Le Malade imaginaire" by Molière
*1972: "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" by Molière
*1974: "Tintamarre ‘74"
*1975: "Le Malade imaginaire" by Molière, and "Gestes"
*1976: "Tintamarre ‘75", and "Face à face"
*1977: "Rhinocéros" by Eugène Ionesco, and "Tintamarre 1977"
*1978: "Le médecin malgré lui" by Molière, and "Tintamarre ‘78"
*1979: "Tintamarre ‘79", and "Ubu Roi" by Alfred Jarry
*1980: "L'Avenir est dans les oeufs, Jacques ou La Soumission" by Eugène Ionesco, and "Tintamarre ‘80"
*1981: "L’Histoire du Québec en trois regimes"
*1982: "Tintamarre ‘82"
*1983: "Les Bâtisseurs d’empire" by Boris Vian and "Nelligan"
*1984: "Picnique en campagne", "Charivari", "Molière", and "Répétez après moi"
*1985: "Antigone" by Jean Anouilh, and "Décollages"
*1986: "Footing", "Charivari", "Bousille et les justes" by Gratien Gélinas, and "Bravo Beckett!"
*1987: "Les Belles Soeurs" by Michel Tremblay, "Zone", and "Ecoutez n’écrivez pas"
*1988: "Le Professeur se meurt"
*1989: "Sounds of the Tantramar", and "L'Interview"
*1990: "L'Alouette" by Jean Anouilh, and "Bébéboum"
*1991: "Paris! Paris!", and "Looking for Glotto"
*1992: "Dom Juan" by Molière, "Bonsoir Irène Goodnight", and "Fin de partie; Play; Va et vient"
*1993: "Rhinocéros" by Eugène Ionesco, "Images and sounds of the Tantramar", and "L'Armoire"
*1994: "Tartuffe" by Molière, and "La Cantatrice Chauve" by Eugène Ionesco
*1995: "Téléchoc", and "Sainte Carmen de la Main" by Michel Tremblay
*1996: "Le Test"
*1997: "Trocshop", and "La Leçon"
*1998: "Le Visiteur", and "This Hour has too many minutes: Combien de voix faut-il pour faire une cacaphonie?"
*1999: "‘Tit Coq", and "La Machine"
*2000: "Le Fantôme du Collège St. Jude", and "Victor ou les enfants au pouvoir"
*2001: "Le Fantôme du Collège St. Jude 2: Cécile's story"
*2002: "Messe solonelle pour une pleine lune d’été", "Mélanie's Essay: An Edu-trope", and "Tueur sans gages: the sniper"
*2003: "Le Faucon", and "Le Placard"
*2004: "Un deux trois soufflé. . . /All together now", and "Huis Clos" by Jean-Paul Sartre
*2005: "Rosalie, William, Jane, Donald et les autres"
*2006: "Allo, Pascale!"
*2007: "Floralie"
*2008: "Trocshop 2"

External links

* [http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts-letters/drama/index.html Windsor Theatre]
* [http://www.sfu.ca/ccrel/strategies/abstracts/abstr53.html Didactique du français langue seconde, dramatisation et théâtre]
* [http://alumni.mta.ca/htmltonuke.php?filnavn=/alumni/reunion/tintamare.html Tintamarre Reunion]
* [http://www.officiallanguages.nb.ca/newsroom_view.cfm?news_id=72&page_type=1 Press Releases from the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of New Brunswick]