The Madonna Painter

Presented by Theatre at UBC

By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Directed by Craig Holzschuh

Bouchard puts human nature under the scalpel and a terrible beauty is born.” – Toronto Star

Vancouver Premiere: To protect his parish from the 1918 flu epidemic, a Quebec priest commissions an Italian painter to create a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary with consequences both comic and cataclysmic. History, symbol and magic realism are beautifully combined in this exquisite parable from one of Canada’s finest playwrights.