If only life could be like the movies! This fizzy concoction takes the classic ingredients of romantic comedy, love, humour, coincidence and fantasy and serves them up with a surprisingly touching twist in this tender and witty comedy by an extraordinary new voice from Quebec.

Writer and actress Evelyne de la Chenelière is an essential figure within Québec theatre. Translated and presented throughout the world, her plays question the limits of language and the experience of writing. In 2017 she was a finalist for the Siminovich Prize for excellence and innovation in Canadian theatre. Among her works, La vie utile, created at Espace GO and staged at the Festival TransAmériques, received the Marcel Dubé Award from the Académie des lettres du Québec, and premiered in German in Frankfurt. Bashir Lazhar was adapted into the film Monsieur Lazhar by Philippe Falardeau and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her most recent play, Le traitement de la nuit, was directed by Denis Marleau in Montréal, premiered in Frankfurt in German translation, and was the subject of a public reading at the Comédie Française in Paris. Evelyne de la Chenelière’s journey is marked by formal exploration and a desire to question living art, both through writing and acting. A singular artist who defies expectations, her work is present in major institutions in Québec and abroad, but also lives within their hidden margins.

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Morwyn Brebner’s debut play, Music for Contortionist (Scirocco Drama, 2001), was co–produced by the Shaw Festival and the Tarragon Theatre in 2000 and nominated for a Dora and a Chalmers award. Other plays include Liquor Guns Karate and the musical Little Mercy’s First Murder (Scirocco Drama, 2004) (with composers Paul Sportelli and Jay Turvey; winner of seven Dora Mavor Moore awards, including outstanding new musical). The Optimists (Scirocco Drama, 2005) was nominated for five Betty Mitchell awards, including best new play (Theatre Junction, Calgary). Brebner is a graduate of the National Theatre School and a playwright–in–residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.

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