ÉCUME

By Anne-Marie White
Translated by Louis Patrick Leroux
In association with PTC and UpintheairTheatre

Directed by Heidi Taylor

“…the work of a lifetime.”
M. Rivet et G. Moffet, Journal VOIR

Adam refuses to believe in anything that science cannot prove then he meets Stella, a beautiful fish girl, and a trip to the sea to meet her dead mother. A journey along the winding rivers and up the rapids to dive into the human heart.

About the playwright

Anne-Marie White

A graduate of the University of Ottawa in theatre (1995) and directing at the National Theatre School of Canada (2003), Anne-Marie has been working in Quebec and Franco-Canadian circles for the past fifteen years. Assistant Artistic Director at Théâtre la Catapulte in the 1990s, founder of théâtre de la Cabane Bleue in 2004, Anne-Marie has been artistic and general director of the Théâtre du Trillium in Ottawa since 2008. She directed Belgian author Paul Emond’s Grincements and Other Sounds, Danish author Astrid Saalbach’s Le Bout du monde and her very first dramatic text, Écume. This production won first place in the 2010 Ottawa/Gatineau Show Awards, six nominations for the 2009 Rideau/Awards awards and will be on a national tour in the fall of 2011. Her second dramatic text, Déluge, was presented as a reading at the Festival du Jamais Lu in Montreal as well as at the construction sites of the Carrefour International de Théâtre de Québec.

About the translator

LOUIS PATRICK LEROUX

Louis Patrick is a professor of dramatic writing and literature in both the English and French studies departments at Concordia University. He holds a doctorate in theatre from Sorbonne nouvelle in Paris and a post-graduate diploma in administration of cultural organizations from HEC Montréal. He also conducts a Montreal working group on circus research.

His interest in the circus extends to writing for the body, dramaturgy and artistic discourse.

With Charles Batson, he co-authored a collective book, Cirque Global: Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016) and directed two scholarly journals on the circus, “Le Québec à Las Vegas” (L’Annuaire théâtral, 2009) and “North-South Circus Circulations” (Quebec Studies, 2014).

As author and director, several of his plays have been staged over the past 25 years. His latest research and creative work elaborated in the university context can be found at http://resonance.hexagram.ca.

In 2016-2017, Louis Patrick taught history and aesthetics of the circus and the performing arts in the professional program at the École nationale de cirque. He is also an active contributor to its Industrial Research Chair in Circus Arts.