The Resident Company of Artists (from Calgary) comes to Montréal for the first time with its production of Lucy Lost Her Heart, a play-installation that interweaves dance and drama as it questions notions of memory and of the past. Trapped in a post-apocalyptic mining town called Lucy, the whimsical cast wanders through dark corridors, reflecting on alienation and modern society. The characters—Pocahontas, Lost Soldier, FLIP, Red, Pierre, and a prehistoric bear—are haunted by history as they attempt to understand where they are and how they might find a way out. Remnants of a forgotten humanity, they dance, sing, and summon the imagination like survivors of an ideological shipwreck, capturing snippets of meaning in order to create new realities. Lucy Lost Her Heart confronts the violence of the past that lurks in the subconscious and attempts to formulate future horizons yet to be discovered.
