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.
Meet GG Award Winning Playwright Mishka Lavigne
About the playwright
Mishka Lavigne
About the translator
Neil Blackadder
Neil Blackadder (he, him) is a translator of drama and prose from German and French, specializing in contemporary theatre, and recently retired from a 25-year career teaching theater at Knox College and Duke University. Neil’s translations have been staged in New York, London, Chicago, and elsewhere, and widely published. Playwrights Neil has translated include Lukas Bärfuss, Rebekka Kricheldorf, Ewald Palmetshofer, Ferdinand Schmalz, Mishka Lavigne, and Thomas Arzt. He is also the author of Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience. (www.neilblackadder.com)
January 28 – February 13, 2022
(Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm)
Talkback: Feb. 3 & 6
Matinées: All Sundays (January 30, February 6, 13)
Viewing available both in-person and on-line
Jericho Arts Centre
1675 Discovery Street,
Vancouver BC V6R 4K5
Tel: 604-224-8007
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United Players
English Language Premiere of GG Award winning play (French Language Drama, 2019)
HAVEN
By Mishka Lavigne | Translated by Neil Blackadder
Directed by John Jack Paterson
Featuring Tina Georgieva and Alexander Lowe
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.
Viewing is available both in-person and on-line
Assistant Directed by Hannah Siden | Stage Managed by Maria Denholme | Technical Direction by Karen Chiang | Associate Technical Director Kaeden Atkinson Hill | Set & Projections Design by Joel Grinke | Lighting Design by Vanka Chaitra Salim | Associate Lighting Designer @Kai Wong | Set Decoration & Props by Alis B | Sound Design & Composition by Georgia Zell Couver | Costume Design by Shasta Lily Barkman | Produced by Fran Burnside
** Mask and vaccine mandates are in effect in all venues in British Columbia.**
** 50 % capacity limits are enforced.**
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Bouche’s activities take place on and are launched from the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish People: the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We recognize and honour the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation commission and acknowledge the importance of Indigenous sovereignty on this unceded territory.
*A territorial or land acknowledgement is an act of reconciliation that involves making a statement recognizing the traditional territory of the Indigenous people who called the land home before the arrival of settlers, and in many cases still do call it home.
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