“Boulevard Pérusse”: the first play signed François Pérusse

The crazy universe of François Pérusse will be transposed on the boards next summer, in a brand new play he imagined.

Taking place in 2041. In addition, Boulevard Pérusse Tell the story of a Quebec family at the head of a green multinational that is all the rage with its 100% ecological manufacturing of household appliances, furniture and home accessories.

However. Furthermore, the family will be alerted by an employee of a factory located in another country than the dictatorial regime in place in this portion of the globe is wreaking havoc for the company and that the government of this country operates the factory to the detriment of the owners, pockets profits and operates employees.

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“It is even quite important as a situation. Consequently, But as it was I who wrote it. Similarly, it is very nonsense, “said François Pérusse, Wednesday morning, presenting his new project to the media at the La Fontaine Park, where he had given them.

During his press conference. the humorist promised many elements, nonsense, misunderstandings and “not reporting” little ones, as he likes to add to his scenarios.

“And as I wrote the replicas too. we must expect that it is not very serious by ends,” he added, expressing having enormously amused this piece, even recording more than half of it all by itself to make it a demo.

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“I wanted to tackle this omnipresent situation where we realize that we are in the process of gnawing our habitat. There are some who are in denial. There are some who say that there is an emergency. Not many people who make a joke on it so far, ”he said in an interview with the QMI agency.

The humorist. accustomed to working alone in his studio, also admitted that this new project had something to give you a “nervous” like him.

“It’s a new world. I go to a house that I had not yet visited. I have confidence, but I’m nervous. We come out of a kind of routine. […] There is “boulevard pérusse”: first play signed a little dizziness, but at the same time, an exaltation. I am more excited by the excitement, ”said François Pérusse in an interview.

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“Being with people is good. But that does not prevent my work on my head. I am still the guy enclosed between his two ears. ”

Boulevard Pérusse will stage new characters. in addition to having some winks to characters from the past who have marked his work.

And unlike the show The 20 minutes of the peoplepresented as part of the festival just to laugh a few years ago. the actors will not lip-sync On the humorist’s voices.

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As for him, François Pérusse does not intend to play a character on stage. However, we can hear it in the role of off -scope characters, on the phone for example.

The actor. screenwriter and director Guillaume Lambert, who staged The 20 minutes of the people just for laughter and who directed Pérusse in the film Niagarawould not have collaborated on this new project for the moment.

«Guillaume [Lambert] It is not in this project, but Guillaume and I will certainly redo something together possibly. On this project, we were not together. But it is clear that we will find ourselves, ”said François “boulevard pérusse”: first play signed Pérusse at the QMI agency.

Boulevard Pérussethe first play written by François Pérusse. will be presented in the summer of 2026 at the Lionel-Groulx Theater, in Sainte-Thérèse, in Les Basses-Laurentides.

The director, the distribution and the designers will be announced later this fall.