Writing at night
The National Arts Centre is proud to announce that Nuits claires, a major pan-Canadian project initiated by Mani Soleymanlou, artistic director of NAC French Theatre, and Cory Haas, artistic and managing director of Vancouver’s Théâtre la Seizième, will kick off in a few weeks.
Writing the night: on and during the night, to see what this space liberates by moving away from the usual questions of identity and language. Taking twelve authors on a journey from West to East – against the spindle, in other words – this ambitious adventure will unite them in a creative exploration of the night and its mysteries.
The participants will be chosen to reflect the diversity of the contemporary world, with close supervision by the two dramaturges-accompagnateurs to script and edit the material produced. The project, combining play, nocturnal exploration and transnational collaboration, promises to reveal new voices and visions within the Francophonie in relation to the vital issues of our time.
A vast French-language writing relay project from Vancouver to Caraquet
Beginning in July 2024, the year-long project will be launched in British Columbia, then progress to New Brunswick in the spring of 2025; each month, each of the twelve companies will designate a playwright whose mission will be to produce a ten-minute text based on playful instructions and constraints developed and sent by Danielle Le Saux-Farmer and Gabriel Plante. Working in tandem, their task will also be to orchestrate the final presentation of the project, a gathering of all the writing segments that will take place in the federal capital in September 2025 as part of the next edition of Zones Théâtrales.
