with Prince Amponsah, Yousef Kadura, Marilyn Perreault, Luca «Lazylegz» Patuelli, Julie Taminko Manning , Lesly Velàzquez

The play Jonathan: a seagull parable is a rewriting of Richard Bach’s work by director Jon Lachlan Stewart. This retelling is a parable told by the actors and actresses on stage. It is about Jonathan, a young gull who seeks to live freely with all the power his bird’s wings provide. However, his community is less enthusiastic about his aerial prowess – the survival of the species must come before his fun. Jonathan’s father tries to temper his offspring’s ardor, attempting to reason with him, but nothing works.

Jonathan cannot come to terms with the austere and serious life being forced upon him. He finds refuge in his own little paradise: a community of camaraderie, of free- thinking gulls who fly for the simple pleasure of dancing with the sky.

On stage, a narrator speaks in French, while the interpreters of the story speak mostly in English. Playing the role of philosopher-storyteller, the narrator seeks, with the complicity of the public, to decode the meaning of this story. She wants to understand: Why doesn’t the world listen to itself ? Why do we tell ourselves stories?