186:. The play earned her first prize at the Congrès du spectacle in 1960. The company adopted the formula of the pocket theatre : if a show was successful, it would run for two months, no longer, even if it continued to be popular. If a show was not successful, it would immediately be replaced by another. And if a show was not fully ready, it simply would not be put on. No entrance fee was imposed on spectators, who would give whatever they chose to give on the way out.
285:, the director of L'Égrégore had a falling out with her troupe. A debate began among the directors of the company concerning the irreligion and the content of some of the texts presented. Despite the threat of being closed down, the theatre remained open, but tensions increased between the Board of Directors, who wanted a more popular repertoire, and the founder, who wanted to maintain the primary purpose of searching and experimentation.
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The Prix de l’Égrégore is awarded annually to the winner of the
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429:, after a long illness. Diane Lemieux, at the time Minister of State for Communications and Culture, deplored "the loss of a pioneer of the theatre in Quebec and a woman whose work was prominent in various fields of expression, a woman of culture, of remarkable talent and scale."
167:, who was already famous, sharply reproached her for having stolen her name. The director of L’Égrégore explained that they were distant cousins and, by way of conciliation, forged a new name for herself, Françoise Berd, the name she would keep from then on.
291:"L’Égrégore consistently put forward what we had rarely seen before in Quebec: visually daring theatrical worlds, in the vein of what was cutting edge in the fine arts," said Paul Lefebvre, director and drama teacher.
410:, this piece was a "masterpiece of feminist theatre, which caused a sensation at its creation, not only due to its bluntness and nudity, but also because of the beauty of its language and simplicity of presentation."
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104:; March 2, 1923 – August 10, 2001) was a Canadian actress and founder of the Québécois experimental theatre company Théâtre de L'Égrégore.
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408:Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre
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