Participants of the 2025 Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac

The Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac is taking place from June 18th to the 29th!

Known for encouraging rich, nuanced works, the Glassco Translation Residency fosters a thoughtful and generative translation process, grounded in collaboration and the deep exploration of the ideas woven into each play.

Unique au pays, cette résidence, qui a lieu dans l’historique Maison Fletcher à Tadoussac, au Québec, donne aux traducteurs le temps, l’espace et le soutien dramaturgique nécessaires pour la traduction d’une pièce de théâtre.

The program plays a vital role in Canada’s theatre-making landscape, and we’re pleased to announce this year’s playwright-translator pairs. You can click on each resident’s photo to learn more about their work.

Les glaces | Translation from French to English

Noémie learns that her son Théo has been accused of sexual assault. Meanwhile, childhood friends Sébastien and Vincent must revisit an event from twenty years ago, in a time they barely remember but which the women in their lives won’t let them forget. Rébecca Déraspe’s signature passion and wit abound in this Prix Michel-Tremblay-winning play which looks head-on at our notions of consent, asking where our loyalties lie when the harshest of accusations lands on one of our own. In translating Déraspe’s LES GLACES (for Talisman Theatre), Leanna Brodie renews a collaboration that has produced GAMETES, YOU ARE HAPPY, and I AM WILLIAM.

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Leanna Brodie

Translator

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Rébecca Déraspe

Playwright

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Seeker | Translation from French to English

Colorado, 2250. Lomond is a Seeker; because of a genetic mutation, he is able to see, feel and share others’ memories. When the army invites him to take part in a special mission whose full scope he has yet to discover, Lomond finds himself reunited with his ex-wife. Faced with one of the most complex enigmas of his career, he invests everything in him to bring to light a long-buried truth that will impact all of humanity.

This futurist philosophical tale by Marie-Claude Verdier crosses science fiction with theatre to explore notions of identity and to challenge who truly has the power to tell their own story. Seeker poses questions spanning the past, present and future.

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Alexis Diamond

Translator

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Marie-Claude Verdier

Playwright

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cockroach (曱甴) | Translation from English to French

A cockroach smoking catnip. A bard lamenting over immortality. A boy stuck in a sticky situation. Three splinters caught in a collision of language, longing, and lobsters (who sometimes bursts, and who sometimes burps). A play about the stories we tell ourselves to comfort, to survive, to resist, to overcome, and to be.

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Tamara Nguyễn

Translator

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Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)

Playwright

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White Hotel | Translation from English to Finnish

Wracked with tuberculosis and completely disenfranchised from her old life of passionate activism, Dinah Reisberg resides in the limbo of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium north of Montreal. Lost in this land of shadows, stripped of everything that once defined her, Dinah is caught in a love triangle between fellow inmate Jonah, romantic hero and soldier-poet, seductive harbinger of Death, and David, Dinah’s beau from the city, pragmatic delegate of Life, Orpheus to Dinah’s Eurydice. Jonah’s alluring romanticization of death will lead Dinah down a dark path. A contemporary Gothic drama that confronts the myths and limits of medical authority and power, the White Hotel investigates the precipice between love and lust, life and death.

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Sami Hilvo

Translator

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Alexis Diamond

Playwright

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Afrodisiaque | Translation from French to English

Qu’est-ce qui nous attire tant dans les cheveux de la femme noire, brune ou métissée ? AFRODISIAQUE est une conversation, une réflexion, une blessure et une guérison de nos racines passées sous silence. Ce one-woman show donne la parole au cheveu afro. Tantôt magique ou bien tragique : à travers plusieurs corps, histoires et voix, venez à la rencontre de Rhizome.

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Maryline Chery

Translator & Playwright

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Meet the Translation Dramaturg

We’re pleased to have Maryse Warda as the Glassco Residency’s translation dramaturg and residency host.

Born in Egypt, where she spent her childhood, Maryse Warda has been active on Quebec stages since 1992, and has translated more than seventy plays. Her work has helped introduce French-speaking audiences to many Canadian authors such as John Mighton, Morris Panych and George F. Walker. She has also translated many American, British, Scottish and Irish authors including Howard Barker, Margaret Edson, David Greig, David Ives, Cindy Lou Johnson, David Mamet, Douglas Maxwell, and Harold Pinter.

In 2011, she received the Governor General’s Award for her translation of The Toxic Bus Incident by Greg MacArthur. Her translation of Anthony Black’s One Discordant Violin – inspired by a short story by Yann Martel – was the subject of her work at the Glassco Translation Residency in 2019, and was presented at La Licorne in the fall of 2022. During the 2024-2025 season, a number of her translations were produced in Montreal : Clare Barron’s Dance Generation, Alice Birch’s Anatomy of a Suicide, Kate Hennig’s The Last Wife, and Gemma Brió’s Libert. Her translation of Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors will be presented at La Tohu in September 2025.

Since 2006, Maryse has benefited from the wonderful Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac on nine occasions. This is the fourth summer she serves as translation dramaturg and host.

About the Residency

The Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac is dedicated to the art of translation for the stage.

Tout au long de son histoire remarquable, cette résidence a servi de cadre à la traduction de pièces de théâtre en plusieurs langues, notamment en cri, en cantonais, en espagnol, en catalan, en portugais, en tagalog, en anglais et en français.

The Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac is made possible through our partnership with the Cole Foundation’s Intercultural Conversations Program, the dedication of Residency Producer Briony Glassco, and the support of the friends and family of the great Canadian theatre artist, Bill Glassco. We are also grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal for their ongoing support.