Towards a national theatre
NEW TRANSLATION CANADA:
THE SIMINOVITCH PLAYWRIGHT PROJECT
Every three years, 5 Canadian playwrights in both official languages (French & English) are nominated for The Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s leading national theatre award. Each of these playwrights represents a leading voice in Canadian playwriting as nominated by their peers.
Bbouche’s Jack Paterson (BC), creature/creature’s Johanna Nutter (Quebec) and independant Yolanda Ferrato (Nova Scotia) formed the New Translation Canada Collective. We contacted each of the playwrights who shared our excitement for this vision. They each selected 1 piece from their body of work for translation. Working with a creative translation team drawn from leading theatre makers across Canada, we commissioned creative translation of the selected works.
DATE
Saturday October 8, 2022
TIME
PT: 3PM | MT: 4PM |
CT: 5PM | ET: 6PM |
AT: 7PM
RUNNING TIME
2 HRS including Q&A with the playwright and translator
FREE event. No registration required. Capacity 100. Latecomers welcome – audience does not appear on screen.
New Translation Canada
Robert Moule
By Martin Bellemare
Translateranslated from Moule Robert
“With Moule Robert, Martin Bellemare offers us a text of dazzling formal mastery (…). This virtuosic inventiveness is at the service of the ethical questions dividing our society. In his own way, Martin Bellemare wrestles with the question that haunted Brecht: how to be good in a world that is not?” – Prix Michel-Tremblay Jury
Robert Moule is a very ordinary man who works in a daycare. One day, he grabs a girl from the daycare by the arm and finds himself accused of sexual assault. He descends into a Kafka-like journey of inner decay and comic absurdity.
Moule Robert premiered in 2017, produced by Théâtre La Rubrique at the Mont-Jacob Cultural Centre (Jonquière). It has since been produced in Switzerland by POCHE/GVE, and in Belleville and Paris, France by Théâtre de Belleville.
-Recipient of the Prix Michel-Tremblay, 2018
-Shortlisted for the Prix SACD de la dramaturgie francophone, 2017
New Translation Canada gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts, CEAD, Prix Siminovitch Prize, and UBCP/ACTRA.