Ruby Slippers Theatre & The Richmond Gateway Theatre
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The List
By Jennifer Tremblay
Translated by Shelley Tepperman
Featuring France Perras*
Set and Lighting Design by John Webber | Costume Design by Drew Facey | Sound Design by Mishelle Cuttler | Stage Manager Lois Dawson | Directed by Jack Paterson*
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.
* Members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association or U.B.C.P.
The Press
“The List grapples with guilt in a gorgeous production…deeply moving”
The Georgia Straight
“…an hour of power…taking us into the soul of a woman punished by guilt…a powerful one-woman play blanketed in loneliness and regret, and served as an ace… leaving us to ponder the moments in this woman’s life that are uncomfortably familiar — and re-examine our own”
The Richmond News
“The List rhymes off our frailties poignantly…As directed by Jack Paterson, this show works exceedingly well…Perras is quiet, forceful, embracing and compelling. Truth and love flow from her richly…with with grace and subtlety. But most importantly, with believability…the show impacts viscerally…had me wet with tears… Perras is nuanced and subtle and poised and pained as she struggles with her guilt, anger and hurt …This is tender touching theatre.”
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About the playwright
Jennifer Tremblay
Jennifer Tremblay (born 1973) is a Canadian writer living in Quebec. In 1990, she published a collection of poetry Histoires de foudre. She went on to graduate in creative writing at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995. Tremblay contributed short stories and articles to various magazines and wrote episodes for the Radio-Canada television series Les Chatouilles and Bouledogue Bazar [fr]. In 2004, she published her first novel Tout ce qui brille. In 2004, she co-founded the publishing house Éditions de la Bagnole [fr], which publishes books for youth. It is now part of Groupe Livre Québecor Média [fr]. She received the Governor General’s Award for French-language drama in 2008 and the Prix Michel-Tremblay in 2010 for The List, the first of a three play including Carrousel and Deliverance.
About the translator
Shelley Tepperman
Shelley Tepperman is a Toronto-born, Montreal-based writer, dramaturge, and translator. Working from French, Spanish, and Italian, she has brought more than twenty-five plays into English, including Serge Boucher’s Natures Mortes and Les Bonbons qui sauvent la vie. Shelley’s translations have been produced at CBC Radio and on stages from coast to coast, and she was twice nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Translation. From 1994–1998 she worked for CBC Radio developing, adapting, and producing radio dramas for broadcast. Shelley also writes, story-edits, and directs for documentary film and television.
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