news | Monday May 6, 2013

Montreal Celebrates Fifty Years of English Theatre!

Ann-Marie MacDonald, writer, actor and television personality, will host the 50th Anniversary Gala Event, and welcome writers and guests from across Canada.

On May 6 2013, renowned playwrights from Quebec and across Canada are gathering in Montreal to commemorate the last fifty years of contemporary writing for the stage.

The ‘50th Anniversary Gala Event: 50 Years in the Making’ at Centaur Theatre celebrates a half-century of performance writing under the umbrella of the Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal (PVM), a professional theatre centre based in Montreal and dedicated to the development of Canadian work and new writers for the stage.

Quebec writer Michel Marc Bouchard and actor Briony Glassco will offer a special tribute to Linda Gaboriau for her work in translation. Gaboriau has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences by writers such as Michel Marc Bouchard, Wajdi Mouawad and Michel Tremblay.

Tickets are available online at www.playwrights.ca or via email at admin@playwrights.ca.