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André Sauvé on Tour

The big frizzy afro sprouting from his head says it all — André Sauvé has a lot on his mind. This Quebecois entertainer is a true Renaissance man: He's an author, an actor, a mime, a TV pundit — and did we mention his background in classical Indian dance? But since his breakthrough performance at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival in 2006 — where he won the Révélation de l'année (Discovery of the Year) award — he's become best known as one of Quebec's most astute and animated humorists. 

Too philosophical to be described as stand-up comedy acts, yet far too irreverent to qualify as lectures, Sauvé's one-man shows are unique and illuminating interrogations of everyday human existence, pondering both humankind's infinitesimal standing in the universe at large, and the minutiae that we obsess over on a day-to-day basis. Think of them as part Seinfeldian musings on the mundane, part inspirational TED Talk — complete with the headset mic and, when necessary, props. (He's been known to deliver his observations on cooking culture with an ad hoc onstage kitchenette, as if he were preparing a recipe on a morning talk show.) At the 2017 edition of Just for Laughs, Sauvé debuted his most audacious show yet: a collaboration with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal that saw his monologues accompanied by a live symphonic score. The rapturous reception that greeted the performance at JFL — with Sauvé and the OSM receiving multiple standing ovations—spurred a remount for a series of dates in Quebec in early 2018, before Sauvé returned to the one-man-show format for his next production, ‘Ēa.' The title is the French word for "It" — though this has nothing to do with the namesake Stephen King novel. Inspired by a trip to the Alps and the humbling grandeur of its mountains, ‘Ēa' finds Sauvé once again contemplating us mere mortals' place on our planet, touching on such on eternal quandaries like the meaning of life, the nature of existence, and, of course, proper bedsheet-folding techniques.