This Is Your Strange and Beautiful Life is delighted to welcome Paul de Tourreil. Paul is a writer, fight choreographer, non-practising biologist, retired kung fu teacher, and self-described Swiss-Indian weirdo.

He has written, produced and directed countless plays as part of the Montréal Fringe Festival.

This year, 2023, Paul is thrilled to be performing his first ever solo show, 9 Lives, 8 Near Misses: life lessons from near-death events.

In Part 1 of Paul’s two-part interview, we talk about Montréal’s beloved niche creative events, for example Sherwin Tija’s Slow Dance and Strip Spelling Bee. We offer the Coles Notes of Paul’s debut at Confabulation, Montréal’s beloved and longest running storytelling show. Paul shares his theories on default adult settings and how to avoid becoming a bitter and resentful human when you grow up, plus how to be a loving partner, friend, and parent, even if you didn’t get everything you needed when you were a kid. Erica asks Paul for advice on confidence, and she learns it has to do with competence and kung fu, any discipline or skill achieved through hard work and practice. Then we wrap up Part 1 with a doozie of a listener question from Attached. Be sure to hit up Paul’s second episode: Default Creative Settings With Paul de Tourreil. The best is yet to come!

About Paul:

Paul de Tourreil is on Instagram @postitpaul https://www.instagram.com/postitpaul/

Check out his website at https://postitpaul.ca/

Learn more about his show here: https://postitpaul.ca/2023/04/15/9-lives-8-near-misses-life-lessons-from-near-death-events/

Get your tickets here: https://montrealfringe.online.red61.ca/event/2030:237/

10% of all proceeds go to The Native Women’s Shelter of Montréal: http://www.nwsm.info/donate

Support Paul’s show at
gofund.me/702ddfff

Paul’s Show: 9 Lives, 8 Near-Misses : life lessons from near-death events

At ESPACE FREESTANDING ROOM 4324 Boulevard, Saint-Laurent, #300 Montreal, Quebec,  H2W 2R2 gofund.me/702ddfff

Friday, June 2 @ 9 p.m.

Saturday, June 3 @ 6 p.m.

Sunday, June 4 @ 6 p.m.

Friday, June 9 @ 5 p.m.

Saturday, June 10 @ 8 p.m.

Sunday, June 11 @ 6 p.m.

Thursday, June 15 @ 7 p.m.

Friday, June 16 @ 6 p.m.

Saturday, June 17 @ 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 18 @ 5 p.m.

Plugs and Resources:

Sherwin’s Quirky Events (Slow Dance coming up June 2! You can catch it after Paul’s show.) https://www.facebook.com/groups/851268551651989

Confabulation, Live Stories, True as We Can Tell Them: https://www.confabulation.ca/

Mixing, Ukulele, and Cover Art by Erica J. Schmidt in Montréal, Quebec.

Special thanks to Taes Leavitt (darling big sister, https://www.bigheartjourney.com/), Sherwin Tjia (technical and creative advisor, https://www.facebook.com/groups/851268551651989), and my dearly departed Eileen Gun, whose generous gift helped to fund my new podcast equipment. Thank you so much for listening! Stay tuned for mor