Translations
Ravage of Life
For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...
The Enchanted Loom
The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...
Andy's Gone
What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?
In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...
The Law of Gravity
Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything.
Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But ...
The Breathing Hole
Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.
In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she ...
Amaryllis & Little Witch
In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children ...
The Bears Sleep at Last
Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn’t come.
The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do ...
Straight Jacket Winter
When Esther and Gilles decided to move from Montréal to Vancouver, they didn’t expect their lives to change so starkly. All they wanted was to start a new life for themselves, to find new artistic ...
Birds of a Kind
Is it really important to cling to our lost identities?
A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, a Moroccan graduate ...
Small Talk
“There can be no fullness without emptiness. And there can be no conversation without a void. ”
Everyday conversation has always been a challenge for Julie, a lonely and anxious researcher who spends ...