BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective & Ruby Slippers Theatre present
Ta Gueule Translation Workshop & Reading Series
In Association with PTC
West Coast English Language Premiere
NOUS VOIR NOUS
By Guillaume Corbeil
Translated by Jack Paterson
Dramaturged & Directed by Heidi Taylor
Featuring Trisha Li, Sarah Roa, Kacey Rohl, Sean Patrick Sonier & Deneh Thompson
“I’m not who you think I am, I’m just me”
Five young people reveal their lives and relationships though a series of social networking websites. Scene after scene, they shape and reshape their identities, each seeking to prove their own uniqueness.
1h30
About the Playwright: Guillaume Corbeil
In 2008, Guillaume Corbeil published a collection of short stories entitled L’art de la fugue (éditions L’Instant Même) that was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and recipient of the prix Adrienne-Choquette. In 2009, he published his first novel, Pleurer comme dans les films published by Leméac then in 2010 for Libre Expression, he wroteBrassard, a biography of the famous Director André Brassard. In 2011, he completed his training in playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada. Since then, he has written for the stage Le Mécanicien, Tu iras la chercher,Unité modèle – which will be presented in 2016 Centre du théâtre d’aujourd’hui. Nous voir nous produced in 2013 by Pap theatre under the title Cinq visages pour Camille Brunelle and presented at Espace Go in Montréal, at the Théâtre de la Manufacture in Avignon and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The play has been awarded le prix de la critique for Outstanding New Text, le prix Michel-Tremblay and the audience award at the Primeurs Festival in Saarbrücken, Germany. In September 2014, it was produced in German, at the Theater der Jungen Welt, Leipzig.