NDG artist Susan Shulman is currently displaying her paintings at the Bain St-Michel (5300, rue St-Dominique) in the Plateau until November 9, during the running of Infinitheatre's two first productions for this season, John and Béatrice and Plucked, Hammered and Strung. Lovescapes dovetails perfectly with this year's themes of Love, Faith and Hope at Infinitheatre; her vibrant paintings reflecting the inner struggle that impacts the female psyche. For almost 20 years, Shulman has created, inspired by a unique sense of family, motherhood and self, portraying relationships, rebirth and metamorphosis.

"Fish are exotic, sensual, beautiful… they are my symbolic vocabulary, my emotional logic, my poetry, a metaphor for transformation and the spiritual voyage," says Shulman.

John and Béatrice, a two-hander written by award-winning Québecois writer Carole Fréchette, and featuring actors Tania Kontoyanni and Frank Schorpion, is a cross between Greek myth and fairytale, asking the eternal questions of male and female archetypes in their relation to one another. The two characters personify the duality of love. “Béatrice seeks love sublime, transcendent, love suspended in an apartment between sky and ground. And then there is the love that John runs from, choking love, threatening, love that takes you to seventh heaven all the better to let you crash to the floor, love which shakes your will and your identity, misleading love that never completely tells the truth," says Fréchette. Shulman's paintings will be on display until November 9.