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April 2012

Thursday April 19, 2012

Down Dangerous Passes Road - Michel Marc Bouchard - Encore Theatre

Michel Marc Bouchard

Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard made his professional debut in 1983. Since then he has written 25 plays, and he is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including: le Prix Journal de Montréal, Prix du Cercle de critiques de l’Outaouais, the Governor General’s Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, and the Chalmers Award for Outstanding New Play. The Vancouver productions of Lilies (1993) and The Orphan Muses (1995) also garnered nine Jesse Richardson Theatre Awards. Translated into nine languages, his bold and visionary works have represented Canada in major festivals around the world and been produced by theatres on four continents. Though the subjects of his plays are often serious, Bouchard is no stranger to comedy. Several of his plays like Les entreprises amoureuses, Le Désir and Pierre et Marie, have been mounted at summer theatres in French and English. Bouchard is also the author of Written on Water, Down Dangerous Passes Road, The Coronation Voyage, which was performed in 2003 as the first Canadian-authored play at the Shaw Festival in 25 years, and The Tale of Teeka, all available in English from Talonbooks.

January 2011 : Entrevue avec Michel Marc Bouchard et Claude Poissant

November 2010 : The Madonna Painter For The Very First Time!

November 2010 : Congrats on the GG, Linda Gaboriau!

October 2010 : The Madonna Painter Comes to UBC!

BOOK AWARDS

Finalist for the 2000 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation

QUOTES OF NOTE

“Gaboriau’s extensive experience in translating Québécois drama … enable[s her] to bring out the richness and subtleties of the [French text].”
— Canadian Literature

“This is a witty satire of one of the more tragic effects of globalization: the disregard for collective memory and for those who, like senior citizens, embody it or, like writers, wish to preserve it… Gaboriau has done a superlative job in reproducing the profound disarray underlying the characters’ caustic humour and their violent reactions to differing points of view.”
— University of Toronto Quarterly

QUOTES OF NOTE

Tackles the themes of sacrifice and forgiveness, the interpretation of history, the lost (i.e. sacrificed) generation, innocence, family and love.
— La Presse

Brilliant, artful and satirical.
— CBC Radio