Vancouver stage stars pitch in for Ruby Slippers Theatre's reading of Benevolence, January 8 at noon

Local playwright Leanne Brodie has created a new translation of the award-winning black comedy by Quebec’s Fanny Britt

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Leanne Brodie (left) has created a new translation of the award-winning play by Quebec’s Fanny Britt (above).

Leanne Brodie (left) has created a new translation of the award-winning play by Quebec’s Fanny Britt (above).

 
 

Ruby Slippers Theatre presents a free streamed reading of Benevolence on January 8 at noon, via Zoom

 

LOCAL ACTORS CHARLIE GALLANT, Lucia Frangione, Jovanni Sy, Raugi Yu, and Agnes Tong all take part in a live reading with Ruby Slippers this Friday at noon.

The well-known Vancouver actors are on hand to debut playwright Leanne Brodie’s new English translation of Benevolence. Quebec playwright Fanny Britt’s script won the 2012 Governor-General’s Award for Drama in the French-language category.

Brodie is well-acquainted with translating Quebecois plays; to date she’s created English versions of more than two dozen of them.

The black comedy focuses on a big-city lawyer who returns to his hometown of Benevolence due to a tragic accident that throws him into a moral dilemma.  

 
 
 
 

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