When the parish priest died, two graves were dug: one on either side of the cemetery fence. For three days and three nights of the wake, the entire village debated where to lay him to rest: in consecrated ground or on the other side.
You never really know who you’re dealing with… Everyone has their own story, their own truth. Just when they thought they knew everything about this man of the rosary, the widow’s account during the wake would come as a great surprise. Hanging on her every word, they would discover the priest’s unsuspected truths and secrets—and, above all, witness the wildly skewed judgment of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton’s legendary court of public opinion.
With Au nom du père, Fred Pellerin returns to the stage with a brand-new show, true to his art of storytelling, in which humour and poetry intertwine around a deeply human story.