The Center for Dramatic Authors Foundation (CEAD) awarded its Michel-Tremblay prize for the best text created on stage to Marie-Claude Verdier for her play Seeker.
The jury underlined his “mastery in writing, his sure rhythm and his precise and refined language”. Seeker was created by the Collectif Point bleu in co-distribution with the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in 2021. The author of the plays Let’s constitute and Savage, Savagewins a $20,000 scholarship.
“Marie-Claude Verdier explores a genre that is not very present on the stages, that of science fiction, the codes of which she handles with great skill, wrote the jury. In addition to being original and captivating, the world she imagines in Seeker acts as a powerful revealer of our societies and stimulates brilliant philosophical reflection. »
The CEAD awarded two other prizes. First the Louise-LaHaye prize, for the excellence of a text for young audiences, awarded to Olivier Sylvestre for his text In the lost forest, created by the White Dahlia Company, which leaves with a $10,000 scholarship. And the Gratien-Gélinas prize, which rewards an emerging author, awarded to Maud de Palma-Duquet for her text Volunteering. She also leaves with a scholarship of $10,000.