Two Steps from the Stars
by Jean-Rock Gaudreault
translated by Linda Gaboriau
And here she is in person: Maggie. She appears on the sidewalk just as Junior makes a big decision: this very night, heâ??s going to make a run for it to achieve his great dream of becoming an astronautâ?¦
Youâ??ve got to run fast to escape from your childhood. Youâ??ve got to run fast to discover a larger world where you donâ??t have to ask permission to be free. But sometimes it happens that a stowaway threatens to give away your secret unlessâ?¦ unless she can go with you for awhileâ?¦ Sometimes the trains of childhood run very late. And rumours have a bit of truth to themâ?¦ And what if the new world were only two steps away?
close this panelJean-Rock Gaudreault is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canadaâ??s playwriting section. His first play, La Raccourcie, produced by Théâtre les gens dâ??en bas in 1997, was remounted and performed during the Festival de Théâtre des Amériques in Montreal and was nominated for a Masque for best regional production in the same year. His play for young audiences, Mathieu trop court, François trop long was nominated for a Masque for best script in 1999. Mathieu François et les autresâ?¦ presented the play more than 250 times in Quebec and Europe. The English-language production, Matthew and Stephen, was produced in Canada and the United States in 2002. His second play for young audiences, Deux pas vers les étoiles, first produced by Mathieu François et les autresâ?¦ in 2002, has been performed almost 300 times in Quebec and France. It won the Rideau Vox Pares award and a Masque for best play for young audiences in 2003. Jean-Rock Gaudreault won the 2003 Governor Generalâ??s Literary Award for Deux pas vers les étoiles, which was produced (in French) in Tokyo, in 2004.
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