Mandate

Under the guidance and vision of co-founder and Artistic Director Mathieu Murphy-Perron, Tableau D’Hôte Theatre produces Montréal premieres of English and bilingual Canadian plays by both emerging and established playwrights. Our theatre is often confrontational, seeking to challenge dominant historical narratives and unearth the buried stories of the nations upon nations upon nations that make up the colonial settler state known as Canada. It is through this confrontation that we hope to build bridges, heal wounds, and ultimately labour towards a kinder, fairer world. 

We believe that the conscious act of remembering is a necessary form of resistance and as such seek to restore power imbalances and amplify the collective call for justice by sharing stories of upheaval and unity.

We strive to create in an interdisciplinary, collaborative and democratic environment informed by principles of curiosity, kindness and solidarity. We conjure worlds that are propelled by highly evocative production designs, abstracted movement, and poetic whimsy. We see value in the multitude of forms our storytelling may take, and believe the eclecticism of our creative process is one of our greatest strengths. This may mean placing our signature on traditional plays from the Canadian cannon at times, while defying traditional writing hierarchies on other occasions. 

Our mandate is rooted in a need for intercultural dialogue. By often staging plays penned by Canadian writers that have often played across the country but skipped over Montréal due to our linguistic makeup, we aim to not only share stories from the “Rest of Canada” with Anglophone Montréalers, but also to expose Allophone and Francophone Montréalers to the plurality and diversity of voices from across Turtle Island.

We hope through our body of work to create space for collective and individual growth, to right historical wrongs, and to challenge our audiences to actively engage in practices of class solidarity, anti-racism and reconciliation.