Dates:
January 28 – February 13, 2022 (Thurs-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm)
Preview: January 28 ($15.00)
Opening: January 29
Talkback: Feb. 3 & 6
Matinées: All Sundays (January 30, February 6, 13)
Viewing available both in-person and on-line
Venue:
Jericho Arts Centre
1675 Discovery Street, Vancouver BC V6R 4K5
Tel: 604-224-8007
Email: info@unitedplayers.com
United Players of Vancouver
HAVEN
By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Directed by Jack Paterson
Featuring Tina Georgieva and Alexander Lowe
Elsie and Matt meet when a hole opens up in her road. She’s just lost her mother; he is tracing his ancestry in Sarajevo. Both are adults feeling voids concerning their parents, and they find what they need in their memories and each other. ‘Haven’ (Havre) won the 2019 Governor-General’s award for French drama, and is here produced for the first time in English.
Creative Team
Directed by Jack Paterson | Assistant Directed by Hannah Siden | Stage Managed by Glee Devereaux | Technical Direction by Karen Chiang | Associate Technical Director Kaeden Atkinson Hill | Set & Projections Design by Joel Grinke | Lighting Design by Vanka Chaitra Salim | Associate Lighting Designer Kai Wong | Set Decoration & Props by Alis B | Sound Design & Composition by Georgia Zell Couver | Costume Design by Shasta Lily Barkman | Head Carpentry by Bruce Suttie | Produced by Fran Burnside
Gallery
HAVEN By Mishka Lavigne & Translated by Neil Blackadder, United Players of Vancouver (2022)
Directed by Jack Paterson | Featuring Tina Georgieva and Alexander Lowe
Photos by Nancy Cadwell
Mishka Lavigne
Mishka Lavigne is a playwright and theatre translator based in Ottawa-Gatineau. She has written ‘Cinéma’, produced in 2015 by the Théâtre la Catapulte and Théâtre Belvédère, and ‘Vigile’, produced in 2017 by Théâtre Rouge Écarlate. She also wrote ‘Havre’ (Haven) as playwright-in-residence at Théâtre la Catapulte; the play was translated into English by Neil Blackadder, and into German by Frank Weigand. ‘Havre’, in French, premiered in Saskatoon in 2018, and was also produced in Geneva, Switzerland in 2019; it was subsequently awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada’s most prestigious literary prize.
Mishka’s first English-language play ‘Albumen’ premiered in 2019 at Arts Court Theatre. The play won “Outstanding New Creation” at the Prix Rideau, Ottawa’s professional theatre awards. Mishka is currently working on ‘Copeaux,’ a mouvement-based poetic creation piece, and ‘Shorelines’ as playwright-in-residence with Ottawa’s Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre.
Mishka is also a translator, translating both into French and English, and is part of the Anglophone reading committee of La Maison Antoine-Vitez, an international centre for theatre translation in Paris, France.