Head Talk: when creativity
rhymes with passion

A promising dialogue between intellect, gut, and emotivity

By Luc Archambault

June 13, 2025

Head talk, based on the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talks format, is a humorous exploration into the heart of our hidden creativity. Still a work in progress, the 2025 Montreal Fringe Festival is the stage for its world premiere.

The play is a journey from head to gut, without forgetting the heart along the way. It may seem like a conventional presentation (a TED talk), but the audience is quickly drawn into something more, leading to laughter, reflection, and inspiration. With humour and a touch of whimsical play between the two characters, Head Talk invites exploring what everyone wants to become and what blocks creativity.

Head Talk is the first collaboration between Montreal-based Maude Choko and New York-based Narie Foster, two multifaceted women who have combined their renowned careers with a passion for storytelling and the arts. Choko is a renowned artist, writer, actress, teacher, and lawyer. Her law practice specializes in labour, arts, and entertainment law. Her thesis for her Doctorate in Law degree (D.C.L.) was entitled Collective autonomy to protect self-employed workers: how to promote their access to decent work in light of the case of artists in Quebec, and was submitted in 2014. She’s also the author of numerous academic articles, plays and short films. She was Vice-President of Communications for Avocats sans Frontières.

Narie Foster is an award-winning storyteller who found her way into theatre creation by way of engineering, business, psychology, and hospitality. Her résumé includes positions as a systems engineer at Cornell University, a management consultant at Bain & Company, a fashion co-founder of New York fashion brand M.M. LaFleur, a teacher, and an executive coach on multiple continents. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York, splitting her time between advising entrepreneurs and developing storytelling projects.

The resulting mixture between these two singular universes translates into an in-depth investigation on the meaning, reach and significance of creativity, through a high-pitched dialogue between a scientist speaker giving the Head Talk and what could be construed as her younger soul manifestation, reminding her of her youthful passions outside the logical realm. Though deep in philosophical thoughts, the resulting dialogue is bathed in humour and lightness. With an invocation of family pain (a mention of a father figure at one point), the final version will polish all remaining roughness. The text was just recently written and is still in the working-out phase.

You can catch a gem in the making and contribute to its final version by submitting comments through their website. You can also catch Head Talk at Venue 1, Théâtre La Comédie de Montréal, 1113 de Maisonneuve E., Saturday, June 14 at 2 pm, and Sunday, June 15, at 5 pm.

Images: Courtesy of Head Talk

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