Tintamarre theatre company

Tintamarre is a bilingual student 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.[1]

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, Ecoutez n’écrivez pas, Bonsoir Irène Goodnight, and Fin de partie; Play; Va et vient
  • 1993: Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco, Images and sounds of the Tantramar
  • 1994: Tartuffe by Molière, L'Armoire, 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
  • 2009: l'Argument
  • 2010: Bus 36
  • 2011: Bouffe!
  • 2012: Camp![2]
  • 2013: ALBUM
  • 2014: VILLAGES
  • 2016: REFUGE
  • 2018: REX
  • 2019: NOMADe

References
  1. "Press Releases from the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of New Brunswick". Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of New Brunswick. 6 July 2011. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  2. Soubry, Bernard. "Spectacles - Shows". Tintamarre. Mount Allison University. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
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