'Après on va où?' is a solo musical theatre piece written and performed by Michel Rivard, framed around the brief, beautiful flowering of a magnolia tree visible from a bedroom window.
Through monologue, poetry and song, the show's central character — a 74-year-old man who resembles the author — contemplates life before and after death, weighing doubts against certainties.
The narrative moves between a medical appointment and choosing an urn from a catalogue, between a first love and a forest walk with a seven-year-old grandson, searching throughout for something 'greater than oneself'.
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Michel Rivard
Michel Rivard is a Quebec artist who in this solo musical theatre show blends monologue, poetry and song to explore questions of life, mortality and meaning. The piece is built around the inner voice of a 74-year-old man contemplating what comes before and after death.
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