THE DESERT (Olivier Sylvestre): Why am I still in your bed? And will I be there tomorrow? This poetic and physical solo performance speaks of addiction, and also of disorientation… the kind that comes when you’re high; when you wake in the middle of the night; when love is leaving you. Bouchewhacked Theatre Collective has commissioned a translation of Le désert, which premiered to critical acclaim at Théâtre Prospero in 2018 and was published – in a beautiful format that highlights its surreal and poetic quality – in 2019. (1M)

TALES OF THE SNOW (Philippe Soldevila): Octavio struggles to fit in with his very homogeneous community… a goal not helped by the foreign ways of his artist dad. Continuing the Emigration Trilogy that began with his acclaimed Tales of the Moon, Soldevila’s Conte de la neige follows his young hero Joan to Quebec City in the 1960s… but now Joan is a father, seen from the point of view of his exasperated young son. This autobiographical trilogy takes us through three generations and concludes with Tales of the Sun. This translation has also been commissioned by Bouchewhacked Theatre Collective. (2M/1F).

TALES OF THE SUN (Philippe Soldevila): Étienne is the son of Octavio, a newly-divorced dad who is also a playwright/actor struggling with writer’s block … so it’s no surprise that Étienne ends up feeling like the grown-up in the relationship. It takes a magical journey to the past to bring father and son together again. The final part of he autobiographical Emigration Trilogy that began with his acclaimed Tales of the Moon, Soldevila’s Conte du soleil follows his young hero Octavio to modern-day Montréal… but now Octavio is a father, seen from the point of view of his exasperated young son. This translation has also been commissioned by Bouchewhacked Theatre Collective. (2M/1F)

AUDITIONS, OR, ME, MYSELF, AND I (Angela Konrad) Ricky is an auteur, an enfant terrible, and all the other French words for a controlling pain in the ass. As she holds auditions for her radical version of Richard III, we see her grip on power and reality unravelling as relentlessly as Richard’s own. This translation is being commissioned by La Fabrik. (4F/2M)