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Canadian Play Thing

Western Gold: The Ballad of Georges Boivin by Martin Bellemare, translated by Jack Patterson

Bouche Theatre Collective in association with Western Gold Theatre presents A Glimpse into New Translation: Online Workshop Series

Western Gold: The Ballad of Georges Boivin by Martin Bellemare, translated by Jack Patterson
Western Gold: The Ballad of Georges Boivin by Martin Bellemare, translated by Jack Patterson

Time & Location

Dec 13, 2020, 12:00 p.m. PST

Canadian Play Thing

About the Event

HOW TO ATTEND

Click the link below at showtime

https://bit.ly/CPTWesternGold

Doors 5 minutes prior to start. Capacity 100.

Latercomers welcome - audience does not appear on screen.

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.

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