Sunday Dec 13, 2020  - 12 pm Pacific / 3 pm Eastern / 8 pm GMT

 

Bouche Theatre Collective in association with Western Gold Theatre presents

A Glimpse into New Translation: Online Workshop Series

 

Join Bouche Theatre Collective for our New Translation online development series. Discover the leading new works of francophone Canadian theatre, meet the playwrights and their translators, and play a part in the new translation process.

 

Join us after the reading for an online conversation with the playwright and translator.

 

More info: www.bouchewhacked.com

 

WESTERN GOLD: THE BALLAD OF GEORGES BOIVIN

By Martin Bellemare

Translated by Jack Paterson

Translated from LE CHANT DE GEORGES BOIVIN (Quebec, Canada)

 

“…a theatrical road-movie brimming with vulnerability…this play destroys any prejudice that our seniors are devoid of passion. Even after great loss, love is possible.” - Alix Forgeot, L-Express.ca

 

At 77, Georges Boivin “gives the dice a roll”. Georges just lost his wife, you see, the “centre of his universe”. He’s terrified “he’s no longer exists for anyone”. But there is life after 70 and it must continue even after great loss. With his three friends, all the same age as he, he sets out on road trip from Québec to Vancouver, in search of his first love who he hasn’t seen in 50 years.

 

About the playwright: Martin Bellemare

A leading voice in francophone Canadian theatre, Martin Bellemare was recently nominated for this years Siminovitch Prize.  A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s writing program, was awarded the 2009 Gratien Gélinas Prize for Le Chant de Georges Boivin. La Liberté was presented at La Rubrique (Jonquière) in 2013 and in Montreal in 2015, and was scheduled to be staged in Ottawa in 2020. Maître Karim la perdrix (2018 Prix SACD de la dramaturgie francophone, awarded by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques) will premiere at the Théâtre des Capucins in Luxembourg in 2021. Moule Robert (CNL Scholarship, shortlisted for the 2017 Prix SACD de la dramaturgie francophone and the 2018 Michel Tremblay Prize) was produced simultaneously at La Rubrique and at the POCHE/ GVE in Geneva, then at the Théâtre de Belleville in Paris.  His work has been produced in Quebec, France, Poland and Switzerland and translated into German, Italian and Lithuanian.

 

Acknowledgements

This translation and workshop were made possible by grants from Canada Council for the Arts. Artists appear courtesy of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the Dance Opera Theatre Agreement.  This project is produced with the co-operation of the UBCP/ACTRA.

 

Special thank you to: Canada Council for the Arts, The Canadian Play Thing, Western Gold Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Global Hive Labs., PTC, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Centre des auteurs dramatique, The Presentation House Theatre, Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, & UBCP/ACTRA.