Bouche Theatre Collective
in association with British Equity WSW London Branch
THE SHOE
With WSW British Equity London Branch (London UK)
Featuring Natasha Mendez, David Mildon, Caroline Moroney (London, UK), Sonja Zobel (Salzburg, Austria), translator Leanna Brodie (Vancouver, Canada) and playwright David Paquet (Montreal, Canada). Produced by Lola May
Melanie’s son Benoit, age 8, has a pain that won’t go away, so she takes him to the dentist. Naturally, this results in an epic meltdown. With Benoit, nothing is ever simple… In the end, Melanie – with the help of a kindly alcoholic receptionist, and a dentist who prefers plants to people – must face the fact that her son’s problems are much larger than a simple toothache. Le Soulier is a bipolar comedy, a hilarious and unsettling play in which empathy triumphs over illness.
Meet the Playwrights & Translator
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
DAVID PAQUET (he, him, his)
David Paquet is a Canadian playwright, who won the Governor General’s Award for French-language drama at the 2010 Governor General’s Awards,and the Prix Michel-Tremblay, for his play Porc-épic. His other plays have included 2h14, Appels entrants illimités, Le brasier and Papiers mâchés. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
LEANNA BRODIE (she, her, hers)
Leanna Brodie is an actor, playwright, and translator whose passions include lifting up the stories and voices of women, and championing a new generation of French-Canadian playwrights by. Her original plays The Vic, For Home and Country, The Book of Esther, and Schoolhouse (Talon Books) have been performed across Canada. Her translations include Christian Bégin’s After Me and Why Are You Crying?; Louise Bombardier’s My Mother Dog; Annie Brocoli’s Stardust; Rébecca Déraspe’s You Are Happy, I Am William, and Gametes; Amélie Dumoulin’s Violette; Sébastien Harrisson’s From Alaska and Two-Part Inventions; Catherine Léger’s Opium_37; David Paquet’s The Shoe; Olivier Sylvestre’s The Paradise Arms; Philippe Soldevila’s Tales of the Moon; Larry Tremblay’s Panda Panda; and multiple plays by Hélène Ducharme.
About Bouche & our Partners
Bouche Theatre Collective (Vancouver, Canada)
Founded in 2012, Bouche has been bringing artists and audiences together separated by language, distance, and culture locally, nationally, and internationally. With a specific focus on the cross pollination between Canadian francophone and anglophone artists and the international community, Bouche reaches out through translation, multi-lingual work, and devised creation. www.bouchewhacked.com
British Equity WSW London Branch (London, UK)
The West and South West London Branch of Equity UK. Equity, formerly officially titled the British Actors’ Equity Association, is the trade union for actors, singers, models, performers, directors, choreographers, designers, stage managers, and other creative workers in the United Kingdom. It was formed by a group of West End performers in 1930 and incorporated the Variety Artistes’ Federation in 1967.