English Language Wold Premiere
UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER
In association with BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective
HAVEN
By Mishka Lavigne | Translated by Neil Blackadder
Directed by Jack Paterson | Featuring Tina Georgieva and Alexander Lowe
“…a moving and sensitive production of this GG-award-winning play…the perfect play for the pandemic: two lonely figures, reaching out, and discovering they have many points of connection..” – Toph Marshall, Artistic Director, United Players
“…convincing, nuanced performances… a fine example of the resilience of the human spirit.” – reviewvancouver.com
Elsie and Matt meet when a hole opens up in her road. She’s just lost her mother; he is tracing his ancestry in Sarajevo. Both are adults feeling voids concerning their parents, and they find what they need in their memories and each other. ‘Haven’ (Havre) won the 2019 Governor-General’s award for French drama, and is here produced for the first time in English.
Creative Team
Directed by Jack Paterson | Assistant Directed by Hannah Siden | Stage Managed by Maria Denhole | Technical Direction by Karen Chiang | Set & Projections Design by Joel Grinke | Lighting Design by Vanka Chaitra Salim | Set Decoration & Props by Alis B | Sound Desiign & Comosition by Georgia Couver | Costume Design by Shasta Lily Barkman | Head Carpentery by Bruce Suttie | Produced by Fran Burnside
Gallery
HAVEN By Mishka Lavigne & Translated by Neil Blackadder, United Players of Vancouver (2022)
Directed by Jack Paterson | Featuring Tina Georgieva and Alexander Lowe
Photos by Nancy Cadwell
Rencontre / Encounter
Mishka Lavigne
Join us for a Digital / Live post show chat with multiple GG Award winning francophone playwright Mishka Lavigne and translator Neil Blackadder
Mishka Lavigne (she, her) is a playwright and literary translator. Her play, Havre, won a Governor General’s Literary Award (Drama – French, 2019). Her newest work, Copeaux, a poetic movement theatre creation developed with director Éric Perron, was produced in Ottawa in March 2020. It won the Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier in February 2021 and a Governor General’s Literary Award in November 2021, and it was a finalist for the Prix Marcel-Dubé. Albumen, Lavigne’s first English-language work, won the Prix Rideau Award for best new creation in 2019 and the Quebec Writers’ Federation Playwriting Prize in 2020. Her works have been produced and developed in Canada, Europe, Australia, Haiti and the United States. She is currently working on a bilingual chamber opera libretto with Montréal composer Tim Brady, and her work, Shorelines, will soon be published by Playwrights Canada Press. Mishka Lavigne lives in the Ottawa/Gatineau area.
PRE & POST SHOW SHORT FILM SERIES
CONNECTORS
Conceived of by Jack Paterson | Curated by Hannah Siden
A series of local, national and international short films and media created over the pandemic.
Sunset in Spring, Wuhan | A film by: Haylin Cai. Shot when lockdown was lifted after the first wave in Wuhan, China.
Vancouver April 2020 18:59:30 PT | A film by: Ann Marie Fleming. Commissioned by “Greetings From Isolation”.
Óljós | Director/ Cinematographer: Ash Tailor-Jones. Shot in self-isolation in Toronto, Canada.
Plastic Wings | Music: David Beckingham. Choreographer: Emily Chessa. Director: Hannah Siden. In collaboration with Ballet BC.
Isolations | Director: Talia Shea Levin. Choreographer: MUDA/Maritza Navarro. Music: Amanda Leigh Jerry. In loving memory of Kat Devoe-Peterson.
East Vancouver April 7 2021 | A film by: Ann Marie Fleming. Commissioned by “Greetings From Isolation”.
We Rise Again – Cross Canada Virtual Choir Tour | Featuring: The Elmer Iseler Singers joined by Agincourt Madrigal Singers, Cape Breton Chorale, Thunder Bay Symphony Chorus, Whitehorse Community Choir, Wiarton Concert Choir.