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The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr
The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr
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Author: Jovette Marchessault Translated by: Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 104 Pub. Date: 1992 ISBN-10: 0889223149 ISBN-13: 9780889223141 Cast Size: 3 female, 1 male
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About the Play:
Winner of the 1990 Governor General's Award for drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize).
The
Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr (English version of Le voyage
magnifique d'Emily Carr) is a full-length drama by Jovette
Marchessault, translated by Linda Gaboriau. Follow the internal
life of one of Canada's most beloved artists and the interplay of her
perceptions and projections with her outer world. In her home,
christened The House of All Sorts, famed painter Emily Carr with all
her greatness and imperfections receives several visitors. The
Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr is a dramatization of the
internal life of the artist, projecting how she sees her world.
The
Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr takes a look at the life of a
great Canadian icon: famed painter Emily Carr. The West Coast painter lived in a magical home that she had christened "The
House of All Sorts". In this play, Emily Carr receives visits from
her sister, Lizzie, the epitome of Victorian society; from her First
Nations friend, Sophie; Lawren Harris, the young painter who wants to
revolutionize art in Canada; the Soul Tuner, who hears her cries of
compassion; and from D'Sonoqua, the Goddess-Mother who beckons from
the old world of legends.
Le
voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr premiered in 1990 at Théâtre
d'Aujourd'hui in Montreal and won the Governor-General's Award for
French drama in 1991. The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr
received its English-language premiere in 1992 at the Belfry Theatre
in Victoria.
Cast: 3 female, 1 male
What people say:
"A worthy trip home for one of Canada's greatest painters." — Globe & Mail
"Marchessault's images are as powerful and surreal as Carr's." — Theatrum Magazine
About the Playwright:
Jovette
Marchessault (1938-2012) was an award-winning Cree-Québécoise
novelist, playwright, and sculptor from Montréal.
Self-taught, her poignant work is marked by the harsh realities of
her working-class adolescence. Her novels have won the Prix
France-Québec, the Grand Prix Littéraire Journal de Montréal, and
the Grand Prix Littéraire de la ville de Sherbrooke, and the
Governor General's Award. As a visual artist, she had over thirty
solo exhibitions of her work in Québec, Toronto, New York, and
Brussels. She is also the author of a dozen plays, some of which have
also been performed in English in New York, Sherbrooke, Toronto,
Vancouver and Victoria, as well as in Montréal.
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Jovette Marchessault, Translated by Linda Gaboriau
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