Marie-Claude Blanchet

After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.

Life can be messy. And sometimes it’s downright gross. Three young primary school teachers help kids understand if the disgusting thing in question is truly YUCK! Or by looking closer and understanding of the nature of it, isn’t quite so bad after all.

Everyone can have a bad day now and then, but we meet Valerie on a morning that divides her life neatly into before and after. It took one inconsequential setback – a silly thing, really – to cause a slight delay in Valerie’s schedule, resulting in a regrettable distraction, causing an unfortunate incident, which leads her to the police station….. making her miss the single most important event she had on her agenda: The Meeting! That’s when the dam breaks. All that control to build the fragile framework of her life collapses instantly. Valerie gets fired, is obliged to restrain her lifestyle, and now with the shared custody of her son in question, Valerie has to review her priorities and reorganize her life.

L’ARÉNA is a sketch comedy exploring the daily lives of several characters who visit this local cultural landmark and poke fun at the shortcomings of real life. Hockey, parenthood, friendship, greasy fries and Zamboni - it's all there!