La photo by Marie-Line Laplante
1 actor, 1 actress | 20 minutes
What do you do when a customs officer scrupulously studies your passport and insists that you aren’t who you say you are because the photo he sees doesn’t match the face standing before him in the flesh… a face that unquestionably corresponds to the individual whose name is printed on the passport? In other words, what is identity?
After studying fine arts and philosophy in Montreal, Marie-Line Laplante discovered playwriting. To date, she has had about a dozen works read or produced on stage, both in Quebec and in France, some of which have been published by Dramaturges Éditeurs, Lansman, or in book form by Éditions Bonhomme Vert. Several have won awards and have earned her a writing residency grant. She has lived in Europe since 2003, where she has devoted herself to writing.
Followed by Portrait d'une vie rêvée by Dominick Parenteau-Lebeuf
1 actor, 1 actress | 20 minutes
Maribel Duclapier-Delagarenne tells Mr. Mirabeau, a funeral director, that she is going to die. Or at least she is seeing signs of her imminent demise: her body is, quite simply, failing her, even though she is only thirty years old. In spelling out her last wishes to Mirabeau, she also conjures up her past, as we discover her destiny, and she tells him of the dream life that haunts her.
Born in Quebec in 1971, Dominick Parenteau-Lebeuf spent part of her youth in France and in Australia. A playwright and scriptwriter, a translator at times, and a playwriting graduate of the National Theatre School (1994), she is the author of some fifteen plays, including several published by Lansman Éditeur, and translated into German, English, Bulgarian, and Italian.
