New Translation Development – Rural Arts
Bouche Theatre Collective & Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival Present
NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
FACELIFT
By Nathalie Boisvert
Translated by Johanna Nutter
Translated from FACELIFT (Quebec, Canada)
Featuring Dawn Basset
Ryga Arts Festival (www.rygafest.ca)
Thursday Sept. 18 @ 1 PM
Summerland Librairy
9533 Main Street, Summerland, BC
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Join us for a Q & A with the playwright and translator after the reading.
Dawn Basset in Facelift
(Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival 2025)
Photo: Ricardo Fernandez
SYNOPSIS
First the foundation, then the eyes and finally the mouth… The activity of daily make-up turns into an examination a woman’s life, questioning the relationship between women and beauty, seduction, ageing and the subject of women’s freedom in the face of social diktats. A brand new work by award winning Quebec playwright Nathalie Boisvert.
CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM
Featuring Dawn Bassett | Playwright: Nathalie Boisvert | Translator: Johanna Nutter | Venue Technician: Andy Sandberg | Creative Producer: Jack Paterson | General Manager: Trista Bassett
GALLERY
Dawn Basset in Facelift (Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival 2025)
Photo: Ricardo Fernandez
MEET THE ARTISTS
Nathalie Boisvert | Playwright
Nathalie Boisvert (elle) holds an M.A. in Dramatic Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and is the author of both poetry and theatre. Her fifteen plays include L’histoire sordide de Conrad B. (produced in Belgium and France) and L’été des Martiens (produced in Quebec, Toronto, France and Belgium, as well as in two different German translations in Dusseldorf and Berlin). Her work has received several major awards: the Prix Journées de Lyon des auteurs du théâtre for her play Vie et mort d’un village in 2006, and the Prix Gratien-Gélinas for Buffet chinois, produced at Espace Go in Montreal in 2010. Her latest work, Antigone au printemps (Antigone in the Spring), won the Prix Émilie Augier from the Académie Française and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Theatre in French.
Johanna Nutter | Translator
Johanna Nutter (she, they) is a Montreal-based performance maker and facilitator devoted to authentic storytelling. Her award-winning work has toured bilingually across Canada and Internationally. In 2016, she formed creature/creature, consolidating her passion for negotiating the delicate spaces between people, subjectivities, and artistic practices. Nutter is also devoted to advancing creative, active pedagogy, producing interactive educational programming in various African countries.
Dawn Bassett | Reader
A graduate of Studio 58 and SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Dawn considers herself a “Jill of all trades” in the theatre world, having performed, directed or stage managed for Many Hats Theatre, The Ryga Arts Festival, Summerland Singers and Players, Showtime Theatre Company, Tempest Theatre and Cat’s Paw Productions.
Dawn enjoys building relationships in the arts and rolling up her sleeves to help out wherever needed, so don’t be surprised if you see her in multiple places throughout the festival.
ABOUT SUMMERLAND’S RYGA ART FESTIVAL
Summerland is a rural municipality on the west side of the Okanagan Lake in Interior BC.
Every year since 2015, Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival reimagines our small town to be a vibrant meeting place of the arts and community. For a full week, presentations, performances, new creations, concerts, readings & symposiums on contemporary social issues take place in parks, street fronts, local shops, galleries, etc. All within walking distance from each other.
We aim to bridge barriers that may prevent anyone from participating in our communities and the arts, be these ability, cultural, economic, historic, physical, regional or otherwise. We will find a role for you.
NEW WORKS DEVELOPMENT
Summerland’s Ryga Arts Festival aim to empower BC Interior artists’ of all walks of life ito express their own stories, in their own voices, and their own creativity through their own art. We do this by placing the needs of the artists we work with first.
Drawing from our local, regional and national partners and connections, Theatre Makers receives a bespoke New Works Process developed to meet the individual artist’s unique creative, cultural, disciplinary and other needs.
Land Acknowledgment
The Ryga Arts Festival acknowledges with respect that this event takes place on the ancestral and unceeded lands of the Sylix peoples, who have cared for these lands since time immemorial. We are grateful for their ongoing stewardship & hold ourselves responsible for listening, learning, and building right relations through the work we do.
For more information on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada click here. www.nctr.ca
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