A SEX EDUCATION GUIDE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
By Olivier Sylvestre | Translated by Bobby Theodore
Ages 13+
An exploration of young desire the confusion of sexual fluidity. 17-year-old So and Oli swear to make love by a thistle after graduation. Then Ben appears. In a frantic race to find out who they are before the end of the world sweeps them away, each will discover something you can’t learn in class.
This play was presented at Montreal’s Jamais Lu; received 2018 résidence at CUBE; shortlisted for le prix SACD de la dramaturgie francophone.
Cast Size: 2M/ 1F
Running Length: 1h
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
OLIVIER SYLVESTRE
Olivier Sylvestre is a Montreal based playwright. He is most noted for his first theatrical play La beauté du monde, which won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas and was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General’s Award for French-language drama (2015),[2] and his short story collection Noms fictifs, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction (2018). Sylvestre holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology, and a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada. His monologue Le désert was premiered in January 2018 at Théâtre Prospero in a production by Le Dôme – creations théâtrales, a company Sylvestre co-leads. His play La loi de la gravité, Éditions Passages(s), has won numerous awards in Europe and was translated into English by Bobby Theodore. Other plays have included Guide d’éducation sexuelle pour le nouveau millénaire, and the French translations of Jesse Stong’s You Can Do Whatever You Want and Waawaate Fobister’s Agokwe. His play La loi de la gravité was translated into German Das Gesetz der Schwerkraft by Sonja Finck (Gatineau) and performed at the Theaterfestival Primeur (Saarbrücken) in 2016.
This translation was made possible by a grant from Canada Council for the Arts.
