Audience (Václav Havel) and Catoblépas (Gaétan Soucy): Two Student Productions at the University of Ottawa.
Photo of Paul Rainville by Wayne Cuddington.
Two candidates for the M.F.A. degree in directing with the Theatre Department of the University of Ottawa recently presented their first stage projects in the Léonard-Beaulne Studio. The directing projects were supervised by Kevin Orr who is a professional director and a professor in the programme. In English, Martin Glassford directed Václav Havel’s play Audience, and in French we saw Catoblépas, a text by Québec novelist Gaétan Soucy, directed by Sariana Monette-Saillant. I found the evening so interesting I would like to comment on some of the more noteworthy aspects of these shows.