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Self-representational and autofictional theatre that resonates with the audience through the use of familiar multimedia and feature film excerpts.
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Contents
Juvenilia-The Ur-Play (Dialogue: Flirtatious draft) ...
... here he comes with his ridiculous cape ...
Prolegomena (What they will not say) ...
Pianissimo ...
Dialogue, Take 2: The Chance Encounter of Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon on a Dissection Table. A film ...
A Moment of Authenticity ...
Sediments ...
Milford Haven, triptych ...
Dialogue, takes 3 and 4: Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon at the Hudson's By; filming the silent film ...
Metered Confessional. Second test of authenticit y...
Well, I like Sheep! ...
The Top Hat and the Sewing Machine ...
The Race. A description ...
Scene of Truth. A third attempt at authenticity ...
Failures. A "didascalogue" ...
False Starts. Discarded papers, found, pinned to a wall ...
The original French texts (a short history of their staging) ...
Notes on the English translation and acknowledgments ...
A propos de l'auteur
Louis Patrick Leroux is an associate professor in both the English and French departments at Concordia University. A playwright and theatre director, he is also a scholar whose academic research focuses on cultural discourse, research-creation, Québec theatre and contemporary circus. He was playwright in residence at Sudbury's Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (1993-94, 2005-06, and 2006-07), the Leighton Artists' Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1994, and the CEAD International playwrights residency in 1999. He founded and managed Ottawa's Théâtre la Catapulte over the 1990s and has since focused on impossible, improbable, necessary drama.
Alexander Rock was born and raised suburban Québec. He lives in Montréal, where he studies at the Université de Montréal. His work has appeared in
The Puritan and
Matrix and his translation of Hugo Beauchemin-Lechapelle's "untitled/sans titre" can be found in Tightrope Books'
The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2016. He has also modestly worked as a playwright and dramaturge.
Katia Grubisic is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has appeared in various Canadian and international publications, and her collection of poems
What if red ran out won the Gerald Lampert award for best first book.
Résumé
False Starts presents a series of determining moments between two people stuck reliving the same moment over and over, but in unexpected ways and in different genres (from diary to dramatic dialogue, film script to sound installation). Their interdependence and fundamental inability to say how they feel for one another over twenty years – in spite of their eloquence, in spite of their creativity – constitutes the background of the ongoing spectacle of their relationship.
Made up of a series of short pieces originally published in French as Dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus, this translation by the author and Alexandre St-Laurent with Katia Grubisic, also offers previously unpublished texts. Originally staged for the stage, screen, and elevator at Montreal’s matralab.
