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Backstage : Mishka Lavigne & André Gélineau
2023 Siminovitch Prize finalist Mishka Lavigne and playwright/director André Gélineau go backstage to discuss the mysteries of suburbia, the role voyeurism plays in writing, and how the boundary between nature and urbanism glitches. Be a fly on the wall as leading French playwrights Mishka & André discover what makes the other tick.
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Playwright and Actor Caroline Bélisle: Flora, Fauna, and Femininity
When I write, I constantly return to zoology or botany. My fascination with flora and fauna guides my writing, inspiring many of the relationships between my characters and their environment, both concretely and metaphorically. I'm never more inspired than when confronted with the existence of a new mushroom.
I'm also very interested in femininity, whether it's felt, perceived or imagined. Writing characters that are resolutely feminine, yet complex and fundamentally different from one another, has proved extremely liberating in my writing, and has become like a quest that imposes itself with each new text I begin. READ MORE
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Siminovitch Recipients Collect Other Performing Arts Awards
It's theatre award season, and Siminovitch recipients have collected accolades from Alberta to Nova Scotia. And the winners are ...
Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Toronto, ON)
Joshua Quinlan - Outstanding Scenic Design (The Master Plan), Outstanding Achievement in Design (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812)
Chris Abraham - Outstanding Creative Direction (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812)
Raha Javanfar - Outstanding Lighting Design ((EVERYONE I LOVE HAS) A TERRIBLE FATE (BEFALL THEM))
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (Edmonton, AB)
Ronnie Burkett - Outstanding Performance by a Performer in a Leading Role (Wonderful Joe)
Robert Merritt Awards (Nova Scotia)
Hannah Moscovitch - Outstanding New Nova Scotia Adaptation (Fall on Your Knees)
Alisa Palmer - Outstanding Direction (Fall on Your Knees)
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Colleen Murphy Appointed to the Order of Canada
"Colleen Murphy is a unique and fearless voice in Canadian theatre. Her award-winning and ongoing body of work tackles difficult subjects and explores calamity in society. Committed to the future of playwriting and theatre, she is a stalwart supporter of young, emerging writers and women in the arts."
- From the office of the Right Honourable Mary Simon
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The Mountain and the Valley, Two Planks and a Passion (Canning, NS)
July 1 - August 8
Adapted from the beloved novel by Ernest Buckler and set in Nova Scotia, The Mountain and the Valley examines how community makes a person who they are, and is both familiar and universal, beautiful, funny, and poignant, and directed by Guillermo Verdecchia. LEARN MORE
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MixTape, National Arts Centre (Ottawa, ON)
July 16 - July 20
“Can you think of the first song you played over and over again? The first song that you would take the time to rewind on the cassette tape, because it was worth it.” The first thing we do in life is make sound. For writer, performer, and musician Zorana Sadiq, sound is our first, last, and most influential sense. In her first solo show, MixTape directed by Chris Abraham, Sadiq invites her audience into a life experienced through sounds and an obsession with making them. LEARN MORE
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Lulu, Hamilton Fringe Festival (Hamilton, ON)
July 19 - July 27
The time has come for Lulu to embark on an epic trial of a lifetime. Join her as she travels with Anansi through the spirit world to retrieve the key needed to save her ailing grandmother with her estranged father in tow. As she encounters folklore creatures and learns many lessons, how much of herself will she come to know? Lulu was written by Sashoya Simpson, directed by d’bi.young anitafrika, and stars daniel jelani ellis. LEARN MORE
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The Antidote to Life, Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador (Cow Head, NL)
July 25 - July 27
A beautiful exploration of life, aging, love (most profoundly for a beagle named Georgie Girl), and the unexpectedly halcyon early days of the pandemic. Bernardine Stapleton’s new one woman show is equal parts quirky and charming. LEARN MORE
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Tempting Providence, Perchance Theatre (Conception Harbour, NL)
July 27 - August 24
Based on the true story of Nurse Myra Bennett and her journey from England to Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula in 1921. Theatre Newfoundland Labrador (TNL) commissioned Robert Chafe to write this play in 2000, and hired Jill Keiley to direct it two years later. In the intervening 22 years, TNL’s hard work and dedication has seen the show travel across Canada multiple times, across the UK, Australia, and into the US with hundreds of thousands of audience members. LEARN MORE
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