Réhabilitation

Canadian French-language premiere

Antarctica. A blinding world of slowly melting ice. A world where the horizon is boundless, where one can forget one’s past and embrace a clean fresh start, where one can frolic with the penguins and breathe in cool, blue air.

The perfect place for a recovery centre.

In a not-too-distant future a highly addictive drug becomes the thrill of choice for a large part of the global population. Users are deemed to be in the grip of an addiction that must be cured before it has catastrophic consequences. They gather in Antarctica for a treatment that is unique and effective. It brings peace, tranquility and … forgetfulness. Their memories slowly fading, the residents grapple to retain their past, their identity and their humanity.

The Other Theatre presents the Quebec French-language premiere of Greg MacArthur’s richly allusive and evocative work. An allegory for our times, Recovery warns against the suppression of individuality in the face of conformity, consumerism, and the pursuit of comfort at any cost.