About the Plays:

The anthology Voices From France is the result of a rich collaboration between The Banff Centre, the Societé des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, supported by the French Embassy in Canada, and the Maison Antoine Vitez in France, and features English translations of five French contemporary plays. The exchange that begins at The Banff Centre between a playwright and a translator continues between the reader and the text, and the actor and the audience.

Plays includes Night Zoo by Michel Azama (translated by Linda Gaboriau), Baby Stain by Koffi Kwahulé (translated by David Hormel), The Last Morning by José Pliya (translated by Maureen LaBonté), Mathilde by Véronique Olmi (translated by Morwyn Brebner), and The Lighthouse by Timothée de Fombelle (translated by Don Hannah, based on a line translation by Glenn Nicholls).

About the Editor:

Maureen LaBonté is a dramaturge, translator, teacher, and program coordinator. She was named head of the Banff Playwrights' Colony in 2006, after working there as resident dramaturge since 2003. From 2002 to 2004, she was literary manager overseeing play development at The Shaw Festival. From 1993-2001, she worked at the National Theatre School of Canada where she developed and ran a two-year pilot Directing program and then coordinated the NTSC's Playwriting program and Playwrights'’ residency. She has translated more than 30 Québecois plays into English. She lives in Montreal.