Politics, culture and morality collide in a boîte à chanson in Old Montréal in the early 60s, the beginning of the Quiet Revolution and the birth of a true Québécois music. Here, patrons try to come to grips with the radical changes sweeping through the province and themselves as we see and hear some of the great songs of the era performed. 

David Sherman
David is Infinithéâtre's playwright-in-residence. Recent plays for the company include Joe Louis: An American Romance and The Daily Miracle.  David is also a singer/songwriter who performs regularly in Montréal, a journalist whose work appears in The Gazette and the Ottawa Citizen and is producing a documentary film on new tango music in Buenos Aires with his partner Francine Pelletier. A Song for Québec is his homage to the miracle and the magic that is Québec.

A condition effecting property speculators in trendy neighbourhoods during a recession - is a comedy about gentrification and art. Set in Mile End, circa now, it follows the struggles of a young woman who has set aside her music career and maxed out on credit cards to buy a beautiful triplex. Paralyzed by her tenants' personal problems, she risks losing everything.

                                                         Marianne Ackerman
A novelist, journalist and playwright, Marianne Ackerman was co-founder of Theatre 1774 with Clare Schapiro and artistic director until 1997, when the company became Infinithéâtre. Her most recent novel is Piers' Desire. She is also founder and publisher of The Rover, an on-line website with a team of some 40 editors and writers, covering the Montréal scene.

Trench Patterns
Jacqueline is a Canadian combat officer returned from Afghanistan feeling, and wanting to be, dead. She is angry, intelligent and funny, traits she uses to keep her mind from the violent events of the day that broke her. Solace comes in the ghostlike visitations from her great grandfather, a Montrealer conscripted into World War One and executed for desertion and cowardice. As she recedes into his haunted world, we see her slowly move closer to her own.

Alyson has taught English Literature at Dawson College for the past 13 years and has worked as a general assignment and freelance writer for the Montreal Gazette. Trench Patterns is her first play.

A middle-aged man stands alone on the stage. This is Bob.
A woman stands on a platform behind him. This is God.

As Bob's orderly, upright existence comes under assault from a host of misfortunes, he will reluctantly confront God - a God in whose existence he doesn't even believe.

The Book of Bob is a contemporary retelling of the biblical story of Job. It's a darkly comic examination of anger, precarious faith and the quiet redemption of love.
                                                      Arthur Holden
Arthur is a Montréal actor and writer. He was last seen on stage in Infinithéâtre’s hit production of David Sherman's The Daily Miracle. His own comedy Ars Poetica will be produced by Infinithéâtre this winter, running from January 17 to February 12 at the Bain St-Michel, with an all-Montreal cast under Guy Sprung's direction.