{"id":70131,"date":"2025-08-13T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=70131"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:34:25","slug":"stages-the-theatre-of-life","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/en\/event\/stages-the-theatre-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"STAGES: The Theatre of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As William Shakespeare said, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <em>STAGES: The Theatre of Life<\/em>, participants will experience and explore how acting and improvisation play an essential role in our everyday interactions and on all the various stages we inhabit, whether at home, at work, at school or at play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through a series of fun \u2013 and mindful \u2013 exercises and games suitable for all ages and abilities, participants will learn to let loose, tune in to the world around them and apply the basic principles of improvisation and performance to the theatre of their own lives!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><button-widget widget-id=\"dc0ab1cb-8903-41ba-a54a-d437e87f317e\"><\/button-widget><script type=\"module\" src=\"https:\/\/widgets.global.bookingplatform.app\/button\/v1\/button-widget.min.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A workshop with Michael Bourguignon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66095 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bourguignon-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bourguignon-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bourguignon-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bourguignon-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Michael Bourguignon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a stage actor, director and longtime member of the Quebec Art Company, Quebec City\u2019s foremost English-language theatre group. Like his lifelong mentor, Bugs Bunny, Michael is a versatile character actor who dabbles in musicals and overdresses for almost every occasion. When not onstage, he is a teacher, communications consultant, voiceover artist, sometime stand-up comedian, and proud father. In all these roles, he always asks himself, \u201cWhat would Bugs Bunny do?\u201d Most recently, Michael wrote, directed and produced <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Break a Leg<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a musical whodunit coming soon to Bell Fibe\u2019s TV1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This workshop is presented as part of the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/en\/artistic-connections\/\"><em>Artistic Connections &#8211; Creating Intergenerational Bonds<\/em><\/a> with funding from the Government of Canada.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-300x73.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-600x147.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-1024x251.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-768x188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-1536x376.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-650x159.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-245x60.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-776x190.jpg 776w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-175x43.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government-1500x367.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Canada-government.jpg 1588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a theatre workshop to experience and explore how acting and improvisation play an essential role in our everyday interactions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":70132,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[178],"class_list":["post-70131","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-cultural-event","cat_cultural-event"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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