THEATER, LITERATURE AND MUSIC AT ST. JOHN FEBRUARY 6, 2026.

After presenting all across Quebec the staged readings La femme qui fuit (2016) and Femmes pays; nos forêts (based on Femme forêt, 2022), FIL now invites you to dive into River Woman by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, a luminous book of wild beauty that is also a powerful exploration of female desire.

Femme fleuve

“I wrap myself around you, like ivy around a stump, like an octopus around its prey;
I want to keep you close to me.
You have sharpened all my anchor points to this world. I was alive, though.
I didn’t need you, but you came.”

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, River Woman

With the presence of Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, author and director

A painter finds himself on the banks of a great river, trying to capture its blue, when a woman arrives and upends his life. Like two lovers who met too late, they find refuge in each other. Together, they decipher the mystery of their encounter. Revealed are the scent of seaweed at the nape of a neck, the river’s spellbinding pull and the great painters who have tried to immortalize its waves, the resilience of oysters forging a pearl from their wound, the majesty of the white lily that only blooms every seven years, the oceanic feeling, the courage of vulnerability, the language of touch—of sex and skin.

This performance will be presented in french.

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