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SAINT JUDE DU VILLAGE
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August 20, 2014 to August 24, 2014
THE PASSWORD IS: VITRINE
Show presented in french / Minimal age for the show: 16 and up
SAINT JUDE DU VILLAGE is a coming of age tale about sex and love, youth and experience, life and death …
Set in the neon glam 1980s, Saint Jude du Village follows 17-year-old naïve runaway Jude (Alexis Lemay-Plamondon) as he explores his sexuality in a time when gay men were dying from a mysterious disease. Flat broke and dreaming of stardom, Jude auditions to be a stripper at the tawdry and near-bankrupt Rainbow Lounge in Montreal’s Gay Village. There he befriends the divine Ms. Gracie (Marc-André Leclair), transgender queen and the club’s star attraction, and her friend Michel (Simon P. Therrien), an ex-military mechanic. Guilt-laden by his staunch Catholic upbringing and utterly rejected by his close-knit family, Jude grows dependent on a self-destructive cocktail of drugs and anonymous sex. Will the unconditional love of Michael, or the motherly caring of Gracie save him?
