The Governor General’s Award Play Project In association with Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival & The National Arts Centre of Canada
AGE OF MINORITY: 3 SOLO PLAYS BY JORDAN TANNAHILL
Directed by Jack Paterson
The National Arts Centre, The Fourth Stage (Ottawa, Canada)
Bringing emerging theatre artists from across the country in staged readings of the nation’s leading works.
“Jordan Tannahill’s Age of Minority is rife with vivid and fragile characters, and includes trailblazing storytelling. His unlikely heroes demonstrate the power of youth and love in a hostile world. He is an exciting and courageous voice of our time who gives us a collection full of imaginative and playful imagery.” – Governor General’s Awards Jury Statement
AGE OF MINORITY: 3 SOLO PLAYS BY JORDAN TANNAHILL
Get Yourself Home Skyler James
The harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers. Based on a true story.
rihannaboi95
A Toronto teen’s world comes crashing in when YouTube videos of him dancing to songs by his favourite pop heroine go viral.
Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes
The last hour in the life of Peter Fechter, a teenager in East Berlin shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962 with his companion.
CREATIVE TEAM
Featuring Julian Legere, Pippa Johnstone, Adam Pierre and Brian Postalian
Directed and Produced by Jack Paterson Executive Producer Donna Wong-Juliani
CELEBRATE CRUCIAL NEW VOICES FROM QUEBEC IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION!
Ruby Slippers Theatre presents
In association with BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective
Après Moi & The List January 27-February 1, 2015
Studio 16 1555 West 7th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC
“Intimacy, loss, and the tenuous thread of our connection to others are the themes that infuse this ambitious and beautifully realized double bill of translated French-Canadian works.”
“Under Jack Paterson’s direction, France Perras is a marvel of containment, reciting household tasks with the hauteur and grace of a beneficent queen. When she finally allows her grief some release, it’s heartbreaking.” – The Georgia Straight
“Poetically scripted and compellingly executed, Après Moi and The List will give you something to think and hopefully talk about.”
“A stunning examination of obsession and guilt, love and family, friendship and sacrifice…Evocative set design and dramatic lighting compliment a powerful performance by Perras.” – SadMag.ca
Après Moi Written by Christian Bégin, Translated by Leanna Brodie | Featuring Scott Bellis, David Bloom, Jennifer Lines, Chirag Naik and Dawn Petten | Directed by Diane Brown | Set and Lights by John Webber | Costumes by Drew Facey | Sound by Mishelle Cuttler
Après Moi is six versions of the same story, six ways of experiencing the same moment with increasing intimacy. It’s also a chance to see five of Vancouver’s best actors deliver performances laced with sincerity and absolute precision. An examination of loneliness, this play explores our ever more distant connections to others, emphasizing the transformational power of human relationships, all with a strong dose of black humour.
The List Written by Jennifer Tremblay, Translated by Shelley Tepperman | Featuring France Perras | Directed by Jack Paterson | Set and Lights by John Webber | Costumes by Drew Facey | Sound by Mishelle Cuttler
A woman invites us into her kitchen. Her neighbour is dead. Is she culpable for the death? The woman, who prides herself on never letting anything slip by, has overlooked an item on her list. A riveting tale of everyday to-do lists in which the essential and the ordinary are inextricably entwined.
Bouche Theatre Collectve in association with East 15 Actine School & University of Essex
INTERNATIONAL DEVISED CREATION
ODYSSEY
Inspired by the poem by Homer Devised and Created by the International Ensemble Conceived of & Directed by Jack Paterson The Corbett Theatre (London, UK)
“…an astonishing show!” Simon Usher, Director (RSC, Royal Court, The Print Room)
“…an impressive production of a complex text, delivered with tremendous skill and polish.” Stephen Unwin, Artistic Director (The Rose Theatre)
Odysseus’ epic journey home from the ashes of Troy. After ten years at war, a man is lost, wandering the ocean, pursued by the vengeful storm god Poseidon in a desperate quest to return home in a tale of heroes, gods and monsters in a fusion of dance, song, movement, found object puppetry and poetry.
CREATIVE TEAM Featuring: Allegra Ceccarelli, Ivan Comisso, Connor Eastmon, Ming Hudson, Alariza Nevarez, Ruth Tinker, Luna Tosin and Timothy Vest
Set and Costume Designed by Mila Sanders | Sound Design by Sean Evans
” …Tremblay’s pen, sometimes crying out, sometimes whispering, is always poetic and full of life, death, and music.” – François Dallaire, Être en ligne
TA GUEULE STAGED READING SERIES Contemporary works in translation from across Canada.
English Language Premiere CHILD OBJECT (L’ENFANT MATIÈRE)
By Larry Tremblay
Translated by Chantal Bilodeau
Directed by Gilles Poulin-Denis
Featuring Art Kitching
With child as a blank page, a man sets about constructing his ideal companion manipulating personality, gender and body. The child becomes the ultimate consumer good.
Tickets: Pay What You Can at the Door
Where:
The Cultch: The Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables St
Larry Tremblay is a writer, director, actor and kathakali specialist. He is the author of over twenty books and is one of Quebec’s most produced and most translated playwrights. His work is noted for the diversity of genres it explores.
In 2001 his play The Ventriloquist had three separate productions, in Paris, Brussels and Montreal. The Montreal production, under the direction of Claude Poissant, garnered six “Gala des Masques” nominations, including Best New Play, and won the Masque for Best Production. The Ventriloquist, already translated into eight languages, has had recent productions in Turino, Mexico, Toronto, Ottawa, Bucarest and London (U.K.). Thanks to an uninterrupted succession of new plays (Anatomy Lesson, Ogre, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, The Genie of Drolet Street, Blue Hands, Soap, Bagpipes, Panda Panda…) Tremblay’s work continues to achieve international recognition. A Chair in love created with composer John Metcalf was the fourth of his works presented on stage in Montreal in 2006, following Three Seconds when the Seine Stopped Flowing, The Story of a Heart, and The Axe which he also directed. In 2007 he shared the stage with Carl Béchard performing in two of his shorter plays The Decline of Destiny and The Trouble with Me.
His novel The Bicycle Eater, published by Leméac, was unanimously saluted by the critics, won the Prix Roman 2003 at the Salon du Livres in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. In 2006 he was awarded the Canada Council Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Prize for his contribution to the theatre. Gallimard Paris published Piercing, a collection of three of his short stories. In 2008, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre premiered at Espace Go in Montreal, directed by Claude Poissant (Théâtre Pàp), and was nominated for Best Production 2007-2008 (Montreal) by the Quebec Critics Association.
Larry Tremblay was finalist in 2008 and in 2011 for the Siminovitch Prize. In 2010, Alberta Theatre Project produced at Calgary AbrahamLincoln Goes the Theatre, translated by Chantal Bilodeau, under the direction of Bob White. The same year, his play The Dragonfly ofChicoutimi was directed by Claude Poissant at the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), in Montreal. In 2012, SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques), in partnership with France Culture, awarded his play, WarCantata, the Prix SADC for best world play written in French and CEAD (Centre des auteurs dramatiques) awarded it the Le Prix Michel- Tremblay for the best play written in Quebec in 2012. Still in 2012, his play Child Object was staged in Quebec City by Christian Lapointe. Apart from his plays, Larry Tremblay published recently two novels highly acclaimed, The Obese Christ and The Orange Grove.
Until 2009, Larry Tremblay was teaching acting and dramatic writing at l’École supérieure de théâtre de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
