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BOBBY THEODORE
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Bobby Theodore lives in Montreal and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canadas playwriting program. His first translation, François Archambaults 15 Seconds, was produced across Canada and earned him a nomination for the Governor Generals Award for Literary Translation in 2000. Since then, he has gone on to translate more than 12 plays, including the works of some of Quebecs most talented playwrights, such as Genevieve Billette and Nathalie Boisvert.
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15 Seconds
Brimming with a dark and brittle humour, 15 Seconds is a play about a young female advertising copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother handicapped by cerebral palsy. These four characters are constantly making choices about reality and illusion; imagination and fantasy; the hale and the handicapped; about the way things are and the way they might be. The plays characters each exist in their own worlds utterly without context: objectified to the point where their fantasies about who they might have been are all that define them to themselves, and who they superficially appear to be is all that defines them to each other. They are utterly unable to bridge this gulf and imagine each other; though they all remember that they should try to do so, they seem to have forgotten from where this moral imperative emanates. It is from this vestigial organ of empathy that much of the humour of the play is derived. While the inability of such profoundly superficial and alienated characters to understand each other is the stock-in-trade of stand-up comedians and variety shows, 15 Seconds does something completely unexpected with this materialthe audience is deprived of its traditional cathartic closure, and does not get to feel smug and morally superior after visiting with these characters. It is the characters themselves who, in their irredeemable banality, pronounce their own verdicts of condemnation. In the end, chance reigns supreme in a world where fifteen seconds of inattention or error can, and in fact does, irrevocably determine the shape of an entire lifetime.
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Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
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Original Playwright - Eric Durnez
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Catch a Tiger
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Original Playwright - Nathalie Boisvert
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Crime Against Humanity
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Original Playwright - Genevieve Billette
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Leisure Society, The
At a dinner party a thirty something couple who seem to have everything come to a crisis point
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Martian Summer
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Original Playwright - Nathalie Boisvert
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Theatre Direct Canada 2001
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Noirceur, La
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Original Playwright - Marie Brassard
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Offices
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Original Playwright - Alexis Martin
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Sheep and the Whale, The
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Original Playwright - Ahmed Ghazali
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Taster, The
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In a world where no trace of humanity is tolerated, Nils has gone to work for ODB Enterprises as a micro-chip taster
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Original Playwright - Genevieve Billette
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To Men of Good Will
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Original Playwright - Jean-Francois Caron
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