- Monologue
- Visceral
- Performance
About
After 60 hours in room 158 of a gay sauna in Montreal, a man wakes up disoriented, emptied, broken. What happened? It goes back over the last few years, the last few hours. Folded by the acute pain of loving mourning, he gave himself whole to his most buried desires, struggling with his lack and desire to disappear, until the dispossession of his body. Under the sober and precise direction of Philippe Cyr, the actor Gabriel Szabo makes sound an incisive language, both raw and romantic, which honestly exposes the spectre of addiction.
Credits
A creation of the Prospero Text — Eric Noël Directing — Philippe Cyr With — Gabriel Szabo Light — Vincent de Repentigny Music — Vincent Legault Scenography and costumes — Philippe Cyr Costume assistance — Anne-Sophie Gaudet Sound — Christophe St-Denis Directing Assistance and Governance — Félix-Antoine Gauthier Technical direction at the establishment — Michel St-Amand Technical Directorate — Charlie Wolf S. Turcot Technical direction of tour — Justin Houde Production Directorate — Catherine Comeau
Biographies
Philippe Cyr By drawing on complex materials, Philippe Cyr draws a trajectory fed by a reflection on the limits. He reveals a formal polymorphic quest and an incisive look at the shadow areas of contemporary issues. His creations – nearly 25 shows to date – have earned him an exceptional welcome from the public and critics. They have earned numerous appointments to his collaborators and to himself. His works are presented on tour in Quebec, Canada, South America and Europe. Among the most notable are: The iShow (2013), I like Hydro (2016), Weight of ants (2019), Titan body (survivor's title) (2021), Unbearable long hugs (2023), Watched and punished (2024) and These eyes in love with altered boys (2025). In August 2021, he became artistic director and co-director general of Théâtre Prospero in Montreal. Eric Christmas Eric Noël (he/she) is a writer, translator, performer and non-binary yoga teacher from Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal. He graduated from the dramatic writing program of the National Theatre School in 2009, and was trained at the Yoga Sangha School in 2024. His first play, Making children (Leméac, 2011), created at the Théâtre de Quatsous, won the Gratien-Gélinas Award from the CEAD Foundation and was translated into several languages. In 2023, he wrote, directed and played alongside 10 other LGBTQIA2S+ artists. Love looks something like you (Hamac, 2022) at the Fred-Barry Hall of the Théâtre Denise-Pelletier. For the young audience, he wrote The mother, the father, the little and the big (2012), Asteroid B 612 (Leméac, 2021) - an adaptation of the Little Prince produced by the Théâtre La Roulotte - as well as Pieces of light (2024), a room for adolescents built from the testimonies of dependent people. At the Festival of Jamais Lu 2015, he performed These eyes in love with altered boys (Leméac, 2025) in a reading by Philippe Cyr. The play has been read several times in France - Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Théâtre ouverte, Festival d'Avignon - and it will finally be created at Théâtre Prospero in April 2025. Gabriel Szabo Since his release from the School of Professional Theatre at Lionel-Groulx College in 2013, Gabriel Szabo has combined the noted roles. He first interprets the main role in PIG by Simon Boulerice at the Prospero (m. Gaétan Paré), who won him the prize for the best male performance at the 2014 Pigs d'or gala. Director Christian Lapointe chooses him for Wilderness (CTD-A, 2015-2016 AQCT Men's Performance Award), Pelleas and Melisand (TNM, 2016) and Parents and friends are invited to attend (Quat, 2023). Gabriel also climbs on the stage of Denise-Pelletier with Avarus (m.e.s. Claude Poissant, 2017), Fanny and Alexandre (m.e.s. Sophie Cadieux and Félix-Antoine Boutin, 2019) and Rhinoceros (m.e.s. Marie-Ève Milot, 2025). He also plays in You must be so cold. (m.e.s. Serge Marois, Maison Théâtre, 2016), The house with 67 languages (m.e.s. Philippe Lambert, La Licorne, 2019), My hero Osama (m.e.s. Reynald Robinson, Prospero, 2019) and Me, Jeanne. (m.e.s. Geneviève Label & Melody Noël Rousseau, Espace GO, 2024). In 2021, his role in The Weight of Ants earned him an appointment at the AQCT Award for Men's Interpretation. In 2025, he won the same award for these loving looks of altered boys presented at the Prospero in 2025 in a directed by Philippe Cyr.
Artist acknowledgements
Olivier Proulx
Videos
Recognition and awards
AQCT Award - Best original text, presented to Éric Noël
ACQT Award - Best Men's Performance, presented to Gabriel Szabo





