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International New Translation and Exchange: La Coalition de la robe

International New Translation and Exchange: La Coalition de la robe

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Bridging Borders, Cultures & languages

International New Translation and Exchange

Teatro Trieste Trentaquattro in collaborazione con Global Hive Labs, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective, il ChezActors presenta

LA COALITION DE LA ROBE

By Marie-Claude Garneau, Marie-Ève Milot & Marie-Claude St-Laurent
Translated to Italian by Carolina Migli
Featuring Elisa Ferrari, Sara Gurnari & Melania Mililli | Production dramaturgy by River Coello

When: Sunday, May 8, 2022
Time: 9 PM
Where: Teatro Trieste 34
(Via Trieste 34 – 29122 Piacenza, Italy)

“This work is necessary so Italian artists understand that the same problems are faced all over the world, even in a country as focused on human rights as Canada.” – Mirella Girometti, public

“I didn’t know that there were so many barriers to women in in theatre” – Elisabetta Molinari, public

“…the revival of Quebec’s feminist theatre, a vibrant homage to art, the place of women to challenge everything…” – Le Devoir

They appeared from the shadows, like from a horror movie, the invisible armed with all their crumpled and scraped ideas. In their hands were their stillborn dreams & characters.

Marie-Claude Garneau, Marie-Eve Milot and Marie-Claude St-Laurent investigate a story of invisibility and anonymity. This interdisciplinary document records the writers’ political awakening, and their discovery of a heritage not taught in school – the works of Quebecois women. They share their personal journeys, their theatre knowledge, their liberating anger in a collection of scenes, essays and manifestos. A new generation of writers, performers, and audiences is here to shake off their chains and take their rightful place.

To promote Canadian work over the pandemic, I reached out our international peers. With supported from CEAD, PTC and PWM, I supplied contemporary Canadian works in both official languages fitting each international company’s mandate to chose from; introduced like-minded artists and organisations; and supported funding applications and English language documents.

Translation for theatre falls in the professional category “Creative Translation”. By it’s nature Theatre is a collaborative effort, and translation for theatre is no different. A close cross cultural exchange between playwright and translator is crucial – providing understanding of the playwright’s motivations, choices, and the cultural understandings unique to the playwright’s culture, identity, etc.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Piacenza, Teatro Trieste 34, ChezActors & Piacenza Kultur Dom.

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About Our Partners

CHEZACTORS (Italy)

CHEZACTORS is a collective of professional artists working in a fusion of theatre, photography, activism, live music and electronic sessions, fashion, film, figurative, graphic and graffiti arts led by director, divisor, dancer Carolina Migli. With a focus on the now, the company revolutionizes the relationship between community and professional artists through new participation/ creation models.

PIACENZA KULTUR DOM & TEATRO TRIESTE 34 (Italy)

Founded in 1997, Piacenza Kultur Dom is a cultural association, cultural center and theatre that creates, produces, and presents live theater and the live performance arts in all its forms in Piacenza. Under the leadership of Filippo Arcelloni, we are the only independent producing theatre in the Piacenza region. For the last 20 years we have provided a home for independent music, contemporary dance, new works and creation, clown, and visual arts. Our productions are performed throughout Italy.

Special Thank you to our Supporters

Land Acknowledgement

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.
For more information on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada click here.

New Translation Canada: The Siminovitch Playwright Project

New Translation Canada: The Siminovitch Playwright Project

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Towards a national theatre

THE SIMINOVITCH PLAYWRIGHT
NEW TRANSLATION PROJECT

Every three years, 5 Canadian playwrights in both official languages (French & English) are nominated for The Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s leading national theatre award. Each of these playwrights represents a leading voice in Canadian playwriting as nominated by their peers.

We contacted each of the playwrights who shared our excitement for this vision. They each selected 1 piece from their body of work for translation. These works represent a diversity of leading Canadian playwrights from different regions, lived experiences, cultural and linguistic heritages and draw from across their careers–from early noted works to recent creations.

Working with a creative translation team drawn from leading theatre makers across Canada, we commissioned creative translation of the selected works.

www.newtranslationcanada.com

FREE EVENT

DATE
Sunday June 19, 2022

TIME
PT: 12PM | MT: 1PM | CT: 2PM | ET: 3PM | AT: 4PM

RUNNING TIME
2 HRS including Q&A with the playwright and translator

HOW TO ATTEND
Click the button below at showtime

Join us online
FREE event. No registration required. Capacity 100.

Latecomers welcome – audience does not appear on screen.

The SPNTP Collective
In association with Théâtre Français de Toronto and Théâtre Action

Crawlspace

By Karen Hines
Translated to French by Mishka Lavigne

“A blistering commentary on our consumer culture. Pitch-black funny.”
– Jo Ledingham, The Courier

“Hines at her most horrifyingly hilarious.” – J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe & Mail

Award-winning writer and performer Karen Hines explores the darker side of real estate in CRAWLSPACE, a comic, Kafka-esque monologue that snakes through the brutal battleground of real estate, decorative twig orbs and the state of the human soul.

CRAWLSPACE is inspired by Hines’ true story of buying a fully detached ‘condo alternative’ in a hip downtown neighbourhood in a heated market… and how it all went horribly, nightmarishly wrong. The story became a National Magazine Award-nominated feature called My Little House of Horrors (Swerve Magazine). It was then adapted as a stage play and readings were performed for ‘boutique’ audiences in an Edmonton basement, a Northern Ontario dining room, and a tiny Toronto kitchen. CRAWLSPACE premiered publicly at Videofag, a cultural hub in a storefront space in Toronto’s Kensington Market.

Crawlspace created and performed by Karen Hines (2017)

 

Meet the Playwright & Translator

Karen Hines (she, her)

Karen Hines’ multi-prize-winning plays offer keen musings on modern life, combining such disparate elements as magical realism, pink-brand feminism and environmental disarray. Her solo performances and ‘little’ films featuring her darkly comic character ‘Pochsy’ have traveled the globe. Hines has collaborated as a director and dramaturg with many fellow artists, and her productions, plays and performances have seen venues like One Yellow Rabbit, Joe’s Pub (Public Theatre), Astor Place Off-Broadway, Tarragon, Videofag, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, NAC. For Festival du Jamais Lu 2022, Hines’ ‘Tous les petits animaux que j’ai dévouré’ was translated and staged (Mishka Lavigne; Lisa L’Heureux) and Hines’ real estate horror Crawlspace continues to micro-theatres across Canada in French and English. Crawlspace is being adapted as screenplay, and is now a CBC podcast (PlayMe; Radio One). Upcoming, Pochsy IV premieres January 2023.

Mishka Lavigne (she, her)

Mishka Lavigne (she, her) is a playwright and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been produced, read and developed in Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany and the United States. Her plays Havre and Copeau were awarded the Governor General’s Literary Prize for Drama (French). Her recent play Copeaux, a movement-based poetic creation piece with director É Perron premiered in Ottawa in March 2020. She is currently working on her new play Shorelines and her first opera libretto with composer Tim Brady. Mishka is a National New Play Network (USA) alumni playwright as well as a member of the PGC and CEAD.

Meet the workshop team

MIRIAM CUSSON | CREATIVE TRANSLATION DRAMATURG

Miriam Cusson (she, her) is a director, actor, author, creator and dramaturg. Her work explores the poetry of violence and cruelty in contemporary society while questioning the foundations of our community. Her approach embraces the collisions between vulnerability and strength, between creation and destruction, and seeks to provoke a reflection on expectations, conventions and preconceived notions. She has often been called a rebel. It suits her perfectly. Miriam is the recipient of the Ontario Arts Council’s JOHN HIRSCH Award, the Greater Sudbury Mayor’s Award for the Arts and Laurentian University’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Miriam has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Theatre Department since August 2021.

KARINE RICARD | ACTOR

Artistic Director of the Théâtre français de Toronto since 2021, Karine Ricard (she, her) is an actor, director, director and author. Recently she directed her first feature film Les Liaisons dangereuses : correspondances inédites. At TfT she performed in Molière’s Le Misanthrope, Marivaux’s La seconde surprise de l’amour and in English in The Numbers Games. Her play Les sept péchés capitaux was presented at the Des Feuilles Vives festival in Ottawa. She is currently directing Yassama et la calebasse aux cauris at the WEE Festival in Toronto.

BIANCA RICHARD | ACTOR

Bianca Richard (she, her) is an actor and puppeteer who also writes for theatre and film. Originally from New Brunswick, she received her bachelor’s degree in drama from the Université de Moncton in 2013. Since then, she has navigated between acting on television (À la Valdrague, Newbies), theatrical creation (Radi, Les limites du bruit possible, ‘T”, Pépins) and producing short films (Out of tune, Al-Ghoula à la plage). Since 2019, she been developing the play Parler Mal in collaboration with Gabriel Robichaud. She is also the new co-host of the national youth TV series ONIVA! (Radio-Canada).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of

Land Acknowledgement

Activities related to this project take place on the traditional unceded territories of several First Nations and Indigenous groups in the territory now known as Canada. These include: (Vancouver, British Columbia), Kanien’kehá:ka Nation (Montreal, Quebec), Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), Tsuut’ina Nation, Nakoda Island First Nations and Métis Nation (Region 3) (Treaty 7 Territory, Calgary, Alberta), Anishinaabe-Algonquin Nation (Ottawa, Ontario) and Mi’kmaq Nation (Nova Scotia). 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.

For more information on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada click here.

International New Translation and Exchange: Silence by Trina Davies

International New Translation and Exchange: Silence by Trina Davies

by | | 3.Development, International Projects, News

Bridging Borders, Cultures & languages

International New Translation and Exchange

Teatro Trieste Trentaquattro in collaborazione con Global Hive Labs, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective, il ChezActors presenta

Frammenti da

SILENZIO

By Tina Davies
Translated to Italian by Carolina Migli
Translated from Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell

When: Saturday, April 23, 2022
Time: 9 PM
Where: LA SERRA del PALAZZO GHIZZONI NASALLI
(Vicolo Serafini, 12 – 29121 Piacenza, Italy)

“The workshop presentation gave life to a deeply poetic reflection on our way of communicating and on the place of human beings in the world, thanks to the skillful translation work of Carolina Migli… Between beautiful vintage costumes and soulful music , the exciting and delicate reading staged at Palazzo Ghizzoni Nasalli is only the beginning of the story of how Mabel and Alec supported and challenged each other in the service of the good. Of a feeling that overcomes physical barriers and class prejudices…A concrete hope that accessibility and inclusion can become a priority focus also for Italian theater.”
– Micaela Ghisoni, www.piacenzasera.it

It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk and lip-read in multiple languages. At nineteen, she married a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell and became the most significant influence in his life. Mabel’s unique perspective on her remarkable life, and beautiful and true love story about how we communicate.

Canadian playwright Trina Davies working with Italian translator Caarolina Migli

To promote Canadian work over the pandemic, I reached out our international peers. With supported from CEAD, PTC and PWM, I supplied contemporary Canadian works in both official languages fitting each international company’s mandate to chose from; introduced like-minded artists and organisations; and supported funding applications and English language documents.

Translation for theatre falls in the professional category “Creative Translation”. By it’s nature Theatre is a collaborative effort, and translation for theatre is no different. A close cross cultural exchange between playwright and translator is crucial – providing understanding of the playwright’s motivations, choices, and the cultural understandings unique to the playwright’s culture, identity, etc.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Piacenza, Teatro Trieste 34, ChezActors & Piacenza Kultur Dom.

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About Our Partners

CHEZACTORS (Italy)

CHEZACTORS is a collective of professional artists working in a fusion of theatre, photography, activism, live music and electronic sessions, fashion, film, figurative, graphic and graffiti arts led by director, divisor, dancer Carolina Migli. With a focus on the now, the company revolutionizes the relationship between community and professional artists through new participation/ creation models.

PIACENZA KULTUR DOM & TEATRO TRIESTE 34 (Italy)

Founded in 1997, Piacenza Kultur Dom is a cultural association, cultural center and theatre that creates, produces, and presents live theater and the live performance arts in all its forms in Piacenza. Under the leadership of Filippo Arcelloni, we are the only independent producing theatre in the Piacenza region. For the last 20 years we have provided a home for independent music, contemporary dance, new works and creation, clown, and visual arts. Our productions are performed throughout Italy.

Special Thank you to our Supporters

Land Acknowledgement

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.
For more information on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada click here.

Active Access Design International: PALAZZO DEL MONDO

Active Access Design International: PALAZZO DEL MONDO

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Towards an Inclusive Theatre

Active Access Design International Lab.

“This project makes it very clear. It is our responsibility to ensure the availability of art to everyone. that it is not just about making shows for certain types of people but all the people. Art must be accessible on every level to everyone.”
– Jonathon Papa Marenghi, Minister of Culture, Comune di Piacenza

“Accessibility as a springboard towards new forms of communication. Accessibility not simply as a practice for otherwise excluded audiences, but as added value. Accessibility as a creative challenge and experimentation with new languages.”
– Antonella Patete, www.redattoresociale.it

Signdance Collective International (UK), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Canada), Chezactors (Italy), & Global Hive Labs presente

PALAZZO DEL MONDO

LABORATORIO INCLUSIVITÀ & ACCESSIBILITÀ ININTERNATION
INTERNATIONAL INCLUSIVITY & ACCESSIBITY LABORATORY

Join us in an international conversation and exploration of accessibility in the performing arts.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022
9 PM
Pay Whay You Can

Palazzo Farnese
Cittadella Square, 29
29121 Piacenza, Italy

Ivani Ca & Golda Dahan (Signdance Collective) in PALAZZO DEL MONDO

Carolina Migli (ChezActors) & Golda Dahan (Signdance Collective) combine BSL & shadow puppetry

Working closely with stakeholders in the community, our Active Access Design Labs. examine how to integrate Access tools and Cross Sensory Translation directly into the generative process of theatre weaving access into the very fabric of a work. Almost 2 years later to the day after the Atlantide Project, we are thrilled to return to Italy and Teatro Trieste 34 with an international team from the remarkable Signdance Collective International (UK), and ChezActors (EU) for 2 weeks of Active Access Design research and exploration.

Bouche Theatre Collective Team (Canada):
Joel Grinke (Creative Technologist), Jack Paterson (Devisor, Director, Translator), Anika Vervecken (Sur-title Artist/ Access Co-Ordinator).

ChezActors (Italy):
Ricardo Arias Callejas (Architecture), Fabiola Filace (Dancer), Carolina Migli (Playwright, Performer, Director), Silvia Rastelli (Dancer), Alice Robbi (Dancer), Ranjana Siva (Traditional Dance).

Signdance Collective International (UK, Portugal, & Croatia):
Isolte Avila (Coreographer), David Bower (Dancer, Actor), Ivani Ca (Performer), Robert Corcoran (Media), & Golda Dahan (Dancer)

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Arts Council of England, The Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Piacenza, Teatro Trieste 34, ChezActors & SignDance Collective International.

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About Our Partners

SIGNDANCE COLLECTIVE INTERNATIONAL (UK)

“Hypnotic, poetic, and unruly. The Signdance Collective represents the ungovernable energy of art itself, railing and raging against tyrannical forces. Beautiful to behold” – Caridad Svich

Signdance Collective International is a UK & European-based dance theatre company. We are the pioneers of Signdance Theatre. A fusion of sign (language) theatre, dance, and live original music. The Company is led by a collective of Deaf, disabled, and diverse artist/producers. www.signdancecollectiveinternational.com

CHEZACTORS (Italy)

CHEZACTORS is a collective of professional artists working in a fusion of theatre, photography, activism, live music and electronic sessions, fashion, film, figurative, graphic and graffiti arts led by director, divisor, dancer Carolina Migli. With a focus on the now, the company revolutionizes the relationship between community and professional artists through new participation/ creation models.

PIACENZA KULTUR DOM & TEATRO TRIESTE 34 (Italy)

Founded in 1997, Piacenza Kultur Dom is a cultural association, cultural center and theatre that creates, produces, and presents live theater and the live performance arts in all its forms in Piacenza. Under the leadership of Filippo Arcelloni, we are the only independent producing theatre in the Piacenza region. For the last 20 years we have provided a home for independent music, contemporary dance, new works and creation, clown, and visual arts. Our productions are performed throughout Italy.

About Active Access Design

Active Access Design was born from my work with Global Hive Labs., an international network of artists and companies, co-founded with Denise Yvette Serna (USA), Katie Merrit (UK) and Carolina Migli (EU), working together in devised creation. With collective members across multiple countries, we identified access as a priority.

The 2019/20 Global Hive Labs. international collaborations Medusa USA (Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, Pop Magic Productions) and Medusa UK (London’s The Pleasance Theatre, The Cockpit Theatre, & Fusion Theatre), we focused on incorporating Audio Description and Touch Tours into Dramatic Narrative.

Spring 2020, we teamed up with Teatro Trieste 34 (Piacenza, Italy) and asked ourselves, how could we take this further? On the devised creation project Atlantide, we were able to test the early concept of Active Access Design (AAD) and Cross Sensory Translation. The potential was revealed.

“…a full house for Teatro Trieste 34 …a fusion of epic and contemporary, myth and poetry, in a fascinating total and inclusive theatre…” – Liberta

“…smashing nationality and accessibility borders in a Total theatre merging so many artistic languages in a complete emotional voyage…” – IMA Magazine

Special Thank you to our Supporters

Land Acknowledgement

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.
For more information on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada click here.

Meet GG Award Winning Playwright Mishka Lavigne

Meet GG Award Winning Playwright Mishka Lavigne

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A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE IS A DIFFERENT VISION OF LIFE

Haven Digital / Live Talk Back & Q&A

Sun, Feb 6, 2022 | 3:45 pm PT / 6:45 pm ET

Join us for a Digital / Live post show chat with multiple GG Award winning playwright Mishka Lavigne and translator Neil Blackadder | Moderated by Jack Paterson

About the playwright

Mishka Lavigne

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.

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
Email: info@unitedplayers.com

United Players of Vancouver – Theatre Company

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.**

Land Acknowledgement

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.
For more information on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada click here.

Haven World English Language Premiere

Haven World English Language Premiere

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DATES & Times

January 28 – February 13, 2022 (Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm)

Viewing available both in-person and on-line

Location

Jericho Arts Centre
1675 Discovery Street,
Vancouver BC V6R 4K5
Tel: 604-224-8007
Email: info@unitedplayers.com

Website

United Players of Vancouver – Theatre Company

English Language Wold Premiere

UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER
In association with BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective

HAVEN

By Mishka Lavigne | Translated by Neil Blackadder
Directed by Jack Paterson | Featuring  Tina Georgieva and Alexander Lowe

“…a moving and sensitive production of this GG-award-winning play…the perfect play for the pandemic: two lonely figures, reaching out, and discovering they have many points of connection..” – Toph Marshall, Artistic Director, United Players

“…convincing, nuanced performances… a fine example of the resilience of the human spirit.” – reviewvancouver.com

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. ‘Haven’ (Havre) won the 2019 Governor-General’s award for French drama, and is here produced for the first time in English.

Creative Team

Directed by Jack Paterson | Assistant Directed by Hannah Siden | Stage Managed by Maria Denhole | Technical Direction by Karen Chiang | Set & Projections Design by Joel Grinke | Lighting Design by Vanka Chaitra Salim | Set Decoration & Props by Alis B | Sound Desiign & Comosition by Georgia Couver | Costume Design by Shasta Lily Barkman | Head Carpentery by Bruce Suttie | Produced by Fran Burnside

Gallery

HAVEN By Mishka Lavigne & Translated by Neil Blackadder, United Players of Vancouver (2022)
Directed by Jack Paterson | Featuring Tina Georgieva and Alexander Lowe
Photos by Nancy Cadwell

Rencontre / Encounter

Mishka Lavigne

Join us for a Digital / Live post show chat with multiple GG Award winning francophone  playwright Mishka Lavigne and translator Neil Blackadder

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.

PRE & POST SHOW SHORT FILM SERIES

CONNECTORS

Conceived of by Jack Paterson | Curated by Hannah Siden

A series of local, national and international short films and media created over the pandemic.

Sunset in Spring, Wuhan | A film by: Haylin Cai. Shot when lockdown was lifted after the first wave in Wuhan, China.

Vancouver April 2020 18:59:30 PT | A film by: Ann Marie Fleming. Commissioned by “Greetings From Isolation”.

Óljós | Director/ Cinematographer: Ash Tailor-Jones. Shot in self-isolation in Toronto, Canada.

Plastic Wings | Music: David Beckingham. Choreographer: Emily Chessa. Director: Hannah Siden. In collaboration with Ballet BC.

Isolations | Director: Talia Shea Levin. Choreographer: MUDA/Maritza Navarro. Music: Amanda Leigh Jerry. In loving memory of Kat Devoe-Peterson.

East Vancouver April 7 2021 | A film by: Ann Marie Fleming. Commissioned by “Greetings From Isolation”.

We Rise Again – Cross Canada Virtual Choir Tour | Featuring: The Elmer Iseler Singers joined by Agincourt Madrigal Singers, Cape Breton Chorale, Thunder Bay Symphony Chorus, Whitehorse Community Choir, Wiarton Concert Choir.