Fanny Britt, Rébecca Déraspe and Marie Leofeli Romero Barlizo are the finalists for the Jovette-Marchessault award, which aims to pay tribute to the women who have had an influence on the theater scene in Montreal.
This is the third time this award will be given by the Conseil des arts de Montréal. Designer Nancy Tobin and director Catherine Vidal were the first to receive the award, which included a $ 20,000 cash prize.
Three playwrights are running
A prolific author, Fanny Britt has produced about fifteen theatrical works, the most recent being Everythinga play on female friendship to be screened this Tuesday at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous.
It was the theater that showed me the way to a collective, collaborative act, where the whole is valued more than the sum of the parts, and where we get developing as a group.said Fanny Britt in a statement.
It was also theater that, more than any other art form, made me think about the idea of women’s voices.said the publisher also published two novels, a children’s book and an essay.
A graduate in dramatic writing from the National Theater School, Rébecca Déraspe is having a particularly prosperous year in 2022, with seven plays she has written or adapted which have been or have been presented to Quebec boards, but also around the world.
In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Prix Michel-Tremblay for Those who evaporatedan exploration of the phenomenon of johatsuthose people from Japan who choose to voluntarily disappear from society.
My texts are inhabited by characters who move me, who hurt me, characters who sometimes hide so badly behind my own shortness of breathsaid the Rivière-du-Loup-born playwright.
I always try to renew the form to be as close as possible to the object of my current obsession. So that what lives in me is measured by the community.
Originally from the Philippines, Marie Leofeli Romero Barlizo stands out in her physical and spiritual approach to creating theater. Its main purpose is to bring more Asian stories, and more specifically Filipino stories, to the Canadian stageshe said in a statement.
In 2017, he saw his story at Christmas First Christmas In Montreal will be recited as part of Urban Tales, an event centered on immigration stories, at the Centaur Theater.
His piece Luckywhich focuses on the encounter of a former skinhead and a young woman of Filipino descent, will tour Canada this year.
The name of the winner will be announced on May 18 on a special night at the ESPACE GO Theater in Montreal.
Source: Radio-Canada