From Alaska
By Sébastien Harrisson | Translated by Leanna Brodie
(London UK)
September 2019
From Alaska
By Sébastien Harrisson | Translated by Leanna Brodie
With British Equity WSW London Branch
One summer night, a wild-eyed teenage boy bursts into the quiet suburban home of a woman he knows only as “Miss”, declaring that neither of them will leave her house until he gets answers for questions are too painful to ask.
Nominated for the Carol Bolt Award for Best New Play in September 2020. Winner of the Critic’s Prize for best play of the Montréal season. Nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for Drama.
Special thank you to the wonderful artists Joan Blackham and James Watterson; Vancouver translator Leanna Brodie joining us in London at 6AM Vancouver time by Skype, and Lola May for organizing it!
About the playwright
SÉBASTIEN
HARRISSON
One of the most innovative voices in contemporary Quebecois theatre, Sébastien Harrisson trained in drama writing at the National Theatre School of Canada. He is the author of over a dozen plays, he is established on both on the Quebec and French stages. With his work has been translated into German, English, Spanish and Flemish.
About the translator
Leanna Brodie
Leanna Brodie is an actor, playwright, and translator whose passions include lifting up the stories and voices of women, and championing a new generation of French-Canadian playwrights by transmitting their extraordinary theatrical visions into the English language. Her original plays The Vic, For Home and Country, The Book of Esther, and Schoolhouse (Talon Books) have been performed across Canada. Her translations include Christian Bégin’s After Me and Why Are You Crying?; Louise Bombardier’s My Mother Dog; Annie Brocoli’s Stardust; Rébecca Déraspe’s You Are Happy, I Am William, and Gametes; Amélie Dumoulin’s Violette; Sébastien Harrisson’s From Alaska and Two-Part Inventions; Catherine Léger’s Opium_37 and I Lost My Husband!; David Paquet’s Wildfire and The Shoe; Olivier Sylvestre’s The Paradise Arms; Philippe Soldevila’s Tales of the Moon; Larry Tremblay’s Panda Panda; and multiple plays by Hélène Ducharme of Théâtre Motus, whose acclaimed, Dora Award-winning Baobab continues to tour China and the Americas after more than 600 performances. www.leannabrodie.com
About our partner
British Equity
WSW London Branch
The West and South West London Branch of Equity UK. Equity is the UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners.