5 faces of Camille Brunelle
By Guillaume Corbeil | Translated by Jack Paterson
Sunday May 19, 2013
East15 Acting School
London, UK
5 Faces of Camille Brunelle
By Guillaume Corbeil
Translated by Jack Paterson
Workshop artists: Roman Blomme, Owen Clark, Ming Hudson & Courtney Larkin
Five characters reveal their lives and relationships though a series of social networking websites. Scene after scene, they shape and reshape their identities, seeking to prove their own uniqueness.
About the playwright
Guillaume Corbeil
In 2008, Guillaume Corbeil presents a collection of stories entitled L’art dela fugue (éditions L’Instant Même); He has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s award and was awarded the Prix Adrienne-Choquette. In September 2009, his first novel, Pleurer comme dans les films, was published by Leméac. He has also written a biography of Director André Brassard. In 2011, he finished training in playwriting at the national theatre school of the Canada. Since, for the scene he written sevral plays including Le Mécanicien, Tu iras la chercher et Nous voir nous, presented by PàP under the title Cinq visages pour Camille Brunelle.
About the translator
Jack Paterson
Launching from Vancouver, Jack is an award-winning divisor, director, dramaturge, translator, actor and creative producer whose work and practice have taken him across North America, the UK and around the world. Productions have ranged from contemporary devising, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary projects to main stage and classical theatre in contemporary form.
He is the founder of Vancouver’s award-winning Mad Duck Theatre Collective for whom he adapted and directed Julius Caesar, Vancouver’s first female Prospero in The Tempest and the Vancouver premieres of Titus Andronicus and Shakespeare’s R&J. In 2012 he founded, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective dedicated to shared practiced exchange between francophone and anglophone Canadian practitioners. He is the co-founder of Global Hive Labs, a network of international artists and organizations working in shared practice.
Shows under his direction have garnered over twenty-five Jessie award nominations with many wins. He is a recipient of “The Ray Michal Award”, “The Cole Foundation Award for Emerging Translators” and “The John Moffat & Larry Lillo Award for Outstanding West Coast Artist”.
Jack trained at Circle in Square (NYC, USA), GITIS The University of Performing Arts (Moscow, RU), The Indonesian Institute of the Performing Arts (Denpasar, IND) and received his MFA in Theatre Direction from the renowned East 15 Acting School (London, UK).
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