THE PATH
OF DREAMS
The young Ashini returns to spend the summer holidays in the community where he lived his first years. Since his kukum (his grandmother) died and he lives in the city, he no longer recognizes his belonging to his Innu culture.
The people of the territory of the bears invite you to accompany Ashini on the fabulous journey that he will undertake through the ritual of the sweat lodge. In this world of visions and dreams, where wolverines and Onis live alongside, he will meet a Japanese girl in the 7th century. Do they all share the same quest?
Written and directed by: Izumi Ashizawa, Marco Collin and Hélène Ducharme
English version: Jon Lachlan Stewart
Assistant to the directors: Danaëlle Ducharme-Massé
Set design: Erica Schmitz
Music : Hugo Monroy Najera
Puppets and masks: Claude Rodrigue
Shadow theater: Marcelle Hudon
Lighting: Michel St-Amand
Costumes: Diane Lavoie
Artistic consultant: Claude Boivin
Puppet and shadow puppet mechanisms: Jean Cummings
Seamstresses: Isabelle Christian and Carole Desmarais
Workshop bees: Pierre-Olivier Hamel , Benjamin Perreault and Delphine Quenneville
Innu translation and recorded voice: Bertha basilish
Japanese translation and recorded voice: Izumi Ashizawa
Contributors to the development of the English version: Jon Lachlan Stewart and Maurice Roy
Contributor to the development of the play: Martin Vaillancourt
Soundtrack: Sound Studio G
Technical director : Valerie Bourque
With : Charles Bender , Marco Collin , Hugo Monroy Najera and Cynthia Wu-Maheux
The path of dreams is created in coproduction with Izumi Ashizawa Performance and with the help of our partners: Théâtre de la Ville, Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, the Mashteuiatsh community, The Saint-Romain and Les-Amis-du-Monde Schools. We wish to thank the Cole Foundation for supporting this play.