A writing grant for Nathalie Doummar and a project around The Seagull for Catherine Vidal.
La Manufacture announced this week that the Jean-Denis Leduc Scholarship (2022-23) is awarded to Nathalie Doummar, the company’s author-in-residence until 2024. The scholarship, in the amount of 15,000 $, bears the name of the founder of La Manufacture and La Licorne. It has been recovered for nine years. Doummar has already created the parts coconut And Sisi at The Unicorn.
“The Unicorn is my cradle, a safe space. This is where I discovered myself as an author, ”she says in a press release. Recall that his piece momcreated last year, will be revived from July 14 to 29, at Duceppe, as part of the Just for Laughs Festival.
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Catherine Vidal is going to stage a show around The Seagullfrom Chekhov next season.
In addition, the French Theater of the National Arts Center (NAC) will present the project of its creator in residence, Catherine Vidal. It’s a show around The Seagull, by Chekhov, in a translation by Guillaume Corbeil. Vidal – who has just been appointed co-director of the Quat’Sous – will sign the staging.
His proposal is a “mise en abyme around the themes evoked in the work of the repertoire: art and creation, the generational gap, the thirst for taking its place for young artists, the expiry date feared by established artists , traditions and the avant-garde”…
The cast will feature Macha Limonchik, Renaud Lacelle Bourdon, Nathalie Claude, Simon Beaulé-Bullman, Olivia Palacci, Igor Ovadis and Mattis Savard-Verhoeven. The show will be presented at the NAC, in Ottawa, from April 11 to 13, 2024.