OUR SUCCESS IS MEASURED BY THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS: The Loving Gaze of Lost Boys

by admin | Nov 22, 2022 | 1.Landing Page, Eric Noel, News, Rhiannon Collett

Emerging translation:

Our sucess is measured in the success of others

Bouche Theatre Collective commissioned Rhiannon Collett’s translation of Éric Noël’s “Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés”.

Rhiannon received the Cole Foundation Mentorship for Emerging Translators Award and just completed a translation residency with Maureen Labonte and Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal!

Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal & The Cole Foundation

The Loving Gaze of Lost Boys

By Eric Noel
Translated by Rhiannon Collett
Translateranslated from Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés

“In a gay bathhouse in Montreal, a tiny room becomes one man’s confessional. Drugged to the bone, he’s locked himself away for 60 hours, forever. His body is no longer his own, and his words, fuelled by crystal meth, are relentless. Amidst the chaos, he tells us – as best he can – of the last few years, of the last few hours. In the black hole of romantic grief, his head full and his heart broken, he struggles with his desire to disappear.”

Rhiannon Collett was in Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal studio last week for a workshop and private reading of “The Loving Gaze of Lost Boys”, their translation of Éric Noël’s play “Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés”. Rhiannon was supported throughout the process by renowned translator and dramaturg Maureen Labonté, and the words were brought to life with actor Dakota Wellman and director Gabe Maharjan. With Éric in the room, playwright and translator collaborated – sharing careful exchanges around the confessional piece that explores deep heartache and addiction.

Rhiannon’s translation was supported thanks to the Cole Foundation Mentorship for Emerging Translators – a PWM program that has been running since 2013 to help identify and mentor the next generation of translators, bridging the gap between our language communities.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts.

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Cross-Cultural Exchange & Creation: Bali, Indonesia

by admin | Nov 16, 2022 | 3.Development, News

Cross-Cultual Exchange & Creation
Bali, Indonesia

East Meet West

BTC Creative Producer Jack Paterson partners with PEPADI Indonesian Society of Wayang Puppetry and Sanggar Paripurna in a cross-cultural exchange.

INTERNATIONAL CROSS-CULTURAL CREATION

East meets West: Wayang 4d

Western Theatre Force Collective, PEPADI Indonesian Society of Wayang Puppetry and Sanggar Paripurna (Bali, Indonesia)

Nowhere is it more evident that there is no “one way” but only one of many than in international practice.

Considered one of the longest uninterrupted performance traditions in the world, the Balinese traditional performing arts are unique, rich, and complex. Deeply embedded in Balinese spiritual life (Balinese Hinduism), virtually every form of music, dance, and drama has its origin in ritual, if not a ritual itself. Practices like Wayang Kulit (shadow puppetry) reach back to 1500 BC.

Bali’s highly trained and skilled professional artists, holding significant esteem and social obligations, are embedded with their public “creating community through art”. Creation is an essential part of daily life participated in by most from birth.

Balinese performers believe in the principle of Tri Loka – the three worlds. The acts of creation and performance serve to help find balance in these relationships. Human beings connecting with higher powers, human beings connecting with each other, and human beings connecting with the natural world around them. At the very heart of Balinese’s creative process is making creating community by making art together and the power of change. The act of creating art with others itself serves deeper and more meaningful purposes.

We travel to learn. And we have much to learn from our Balinese peers.

This residency is the first of a two-part examination of what new is sparked when different cultural rivers come together in equal respect through creative exchange of knowledge and combining of practices.

A fusion of Balinese traditional practices and western contemporary creation was presented and tested on the National Day of Puppetry. The project brought together, in an immersive 5 screen installation, new media, verbatim text, and devised creation, with the Balinese story and Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppetry).

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About

THE INDONESIAN SOCIETY OF WAYANG PUPPETRY – BALI (PEPADI)

We couldn’t ask for a better or more knowledgeable creative partners and hosts. THE INDONESIAN SOCIETY OF WAYANG PUPPETRY (PEPADI) is the Indonesian national organization of professional puppeteers, puppet makers and other specialty arts expertise (individuals and groups). Founded by General Surono in 1971, PEPADI’s mission is to preserve and develop the art as the supreme treasures of national culture, promote artistic and cultural discourse, enhance human dignity, developing the next generation of professional artists.

Venue Host: Sanggar Paripurna & I Made Sidia

SANGGAR PARIPURNA was founded in 1990 by multi-talented artists from the village of Bona, Blahbatuh, and covers a wide range of arts, such as puppetry, puppet building and creation, percussion and music, dance, mask and the art making offerings, and more. Since it’s inception, the studio has been dedicated to the preservation, development and creation of art and culture of Bali. The company is an intergenerational with a special focus on community. www.sanggarparipurna.com.

I MADE SIDIA is an acclaimed innovator in the Balinese Performing Arts. He has collaborated with many national and international productions such as the “Theft of Sita” and has toured extensively across the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia. He is the co-creator and director of the tourist spectacle Bali Agung Show featuring 180 performers in a fusion Balinese and Western forms.

New Translation Canada: Robert Moule by Martin Bellemare

by admin | Oct 10, 2022 | Martin Bellemare, News

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.

Crawlspace at Feuilles Vives

by admin | Sep 14, 2022 | News

Towards a national theatre

NEW TRANSLATION CANADA:
THE SIMINOVITCH PLAYWRIGHT PROJECT

Jack Paterson (BC), Johanna Nutter (Quebec) and 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.

Our success is measured in the success of orthers. We are thrilled the first text we developed will be presented at Theatre Action’s Feuilles Vives new works festival!

Feuilles vives

Discover the Franco Ontario new works and creations
6th edition | September 16 to September 18, 2022

A staged reading presented by the Théâtre français de Toronto

Crawlspace

By Karen Hines
Translation to french by Mishka Lavigne
September 16 at 8:15 p.m.
27 Larch Street
Greater Sudbury ON P3E1B7

Artistic team: Miriam Cusson, Karine Ricard and Elsa Simbagoye

Project Description
“A blistering commentary on our consumer culture. Pitch-black funny.” – Jo Ledingham, The Courier

Award-winning writer and performer Karen Hines explores the darker side of real estate in CRAWLSPACE, a comic, Kafka-esque monologue that snakes through the brutal battleground of real estate, decorative twig orbs and the state of the human soul.

This translation was commissioned and workshoped by New Translation Canada in association with Theatre Francais de Toronto.

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Meet the Playwright & Translator

Karen Hines (she, her)

Karen Hines’ multi-prize-winning plays offer keen musings on modern life, combining such disparate elements as magical realism, pink-brand feminism and environmental disarray. Her solo performances and ‘little’ films featuring her darkly comic character ‘Pochsy’ have traveled the globe. Hines has collaborated as a director and dramaturg with many fellow artists, and her productions, plays and performances have seen venues like One Yellow Rabbit, Joe’s Pub (Public Theatre), Astor Place Off-Broadway, Tarragon, Videofag, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, NAC. For Festival du Jamais Lu 2022, Hines’ ‘Tous les petits animaux que j’ai dévouré’ was translated and staged (Mishka Lavigne; Lisa L’Heureux) and Hines’ real estate horror Crawlspace continues to micro-theatres across Canada in French and English. Crawlspace is being adapted as screenplay, and is now a CBC podcast (PlayMe; Radio One). Upcoming, Pochsy IV premieres January 2023.

Mishka Lavigne (she, her)

Mishka Lavigne (she, her) is a playwright and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been produced, read and developed in Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany and the United States. Her plays Havre and Copeau were awarded the Governor General’s Literary Prize for Drama (French). Her recent play Copeaux, a movement-based poetic creation piece with director É Perron premiered in Ottawa in March 2020. She is currently working on her new play Shorelines and her first opera libretto with composer Tim Brady. Mishka is a National New Play Network (USA) alumni playwright as well as a member of the PGC and CEAD.

About Théâtre Action

Théâtre Action is an active provincial organization essential to the development, entrenchment and impact of French-language theatre practice in Ontario.

Formed in 1972, TA is the first Franco-Ontarian arts service organization in the province, TA created the Francophone cultural magazine, Liaison, participated in the incorporation of Éditions L’Interligne, and facilitated the business plans for La Nouvelle Scène d’Ottawa and Sudbury’s Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, founded with the support of Réseau Ontario, participated in the creation, supported the creation of the Jets de théâtre and Connexion Théâtre du Conseil des arts de l’Ontario. Since 1972, TA’s programming events have included États généraux du théâtre franco-ontarien in 1991 and 2008, and more recently, the organization of many festivals and unifying events including Feuilles Vives, the Festival Théâtre Action en Milieu Scolaire, le Happening Théâtral Communautaire and the 24 heures de création pour les professionnels.

Our Success is Measured by the Success of Others: Trina Davies’ Silence featured in SuperAbile INAIL Magazine (Italy)

by admin | Sep 7, 2022 | News

BTC is thrilled to share that the Italian translation of Trina Davies’ Silence is featured in Super Abile INAILE magazine.

Following our creative translation/ cross cultural workshop between BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Canada) and Piacenza Kultur Dom (Italy), it is wonderful to see such interest in Canadian work abroad.

Super Abile INAILE is the monthly EU online and print magazine of Super Able, a resource and service centre for disability issues. The article, DISABILITÀ E TEATRO by Antonella Patete, examines and showcases artists, companies, stories and characters in the Italian Disability Theatre Arts.

Teatro Trieste Trentaquattro in collaborazione con Global Hive Labs, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective, il ChezActors presenta

Frammenti da

SILENZIO

By Tina Davies
Translated to Italian by Carolina Migli
Translated from Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell

When: Saturday, April 23, 2022
Time: 9 PM
Where: LA SERRA del PALAZZO GHIZZONI NASALLI
(Vicolo Serafini, 12 – 29121 Piacenza, Italy)

“The workshop presentation gave life to a deeply poetic reflection on our way of communicating and on the place of human beings in the world, thanks to the skillful translation work of Carolina Migli… Between beautiful vintage costumes and soulful music, the passionate and delicate reading staged at Palazzo Ghizzoni Nasalli is only the beginning of the story of how Mabel and Alec supported and challenged each other in the service of the good. Of a feeling that overcomes physical barriers and class prejudices…A concrete hope that accessibility and inclusion can become a priority focus also for Italian theater.”
– Micaela Ghisoni, www.piacenzasera.it

It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk and lip-read in multiple languages. At nineteen, she married a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell and became the most significant influence in his life. Mabel’s unique perspective on her remarkable life, and beautiful and true love story about how we communicate.

Canadian playwright Trina Davies working with Italian translator Caarolina Migli

To promote Canadian work over the pandemic, BTC reached out our international peers. With supported from CEAD, PTC and PWM, we supplied contemporary Canadian works in both official languages fitting each international company’s mandate to chose from; introduced like-minded artists and organisations; and supported funding applications and English language documents.

Translation for theatre falls in the professional category “Creative Translation”. By it’s nature Theatre is a collaborative effort, and translation for theatre is no different. A close cross cultural exchange between playwright and translator is crucial – providing understanding of the playwright’s motivations, choices, and the cultural understandings unique to the playwright’s culture, identity, etc.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Piacenza, Teatro Trieste 34, ChezActors & Piacenza Kultur Dom.

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About Our Partners

CHEZACTORS (Italy)

CHEZACTORS is a collective of professional artists working in a fusion of theatre, photography, activism, live music and electronic sessions, fashion, film, figurative, graphic and graffiti arts led by director, divisor, dancer Carolina Migli. With a focus on the now, the company revolutionizes the relationship between community and professional artists through new participation/ creation models.

PIACENZA KULTUR DOM & TEATRO TRIESTE 34 (Italy)

Founded in 1997, Piacenza Kultur Dom is a cultural association, cultural center and theatre that creates, produces, and presents live theater and the live performance arts in all its forms in Piacenza. Under the leadership of Filippo Arcelloni, we are the only independent producing theatre in the Piacenza region. For the last 20 years we have provided a home for independent music, contemporary dance, new works and creation, clown, and visual arts. Our productions are performed throughout Italy.