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2005 Governor General’s Award for Literature in the theatre category
Prime à la création 2001
Timothée and Sammy, two young boys, meet secretly in an alley behind a theatre. Because they think that kisses and hugs are counted, they prepare to flee in search of a country where knees are like “public places” … While Sammy waits outside, Timothée enters the theatre for a last trip to the bathroom before they make their departure. Sarah, a little girl who can sing the highest note in the human vocal register, is trying to escape from that very theatre, where she has lost her voice. An unexpected event interferes with their leaving, but not with their quest for tenderness. Timothée and Sarah find themselves alone, prisoners in the theatre. Their only way of keeping hope alive is to open up to each other. From this friendship comes their rescue. Both inside the theatre and in the alley where Sammy waits, the issue is that of great love, a love that cannot survive without disobedience.
With a bachelor’s degree in French studies at Université de Montréal and a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada, Geneviève Billette was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award in 2000 for her plays Le Goûteur and Crime contre l’humanité, premièred by Théâtre PàP and published by Leméac. Le Goûteur was presented in Limousin, France, at the Festival international des francophonies, and Crime contre l’humanité was translated into Spanish and produced in Mexico. Geneviève Billette a writer in residence in Mexico in the fall of 2003 as recipient of a Québec/Mexique grant. Three of Geneviève Billette’s plays have been broadcast on the cultural radio network of Radio-Canada, including Le Pays des genoux, which won the 2004 Paul Gilson Award. Involved in the community since she graduated from the National Theatre School in 1998, Geneviève Billettte has been a member of the board of the Centre des auteurs dramatiques and the Fonds Gratien Gélinas, which had awarded her the Prime à la création 2001 for Le Pays des genoux.
“Presented by the Quebec company Le Carrousel, which has already given us Petit Pierre, this show for young audiences is full of the treasures of tenderness and humour. ‘Why does my mouth always betray my heart?’: Ringing absolutely true to the image of this line by Sammy, always held in check by his mother, the text by Geneviève Billette is remarkably served by the play of the young actors Francis Ducharme and Audrey Talbot, who are as spontaneous as children know how to be.
Gervais Gaudreault’s direction is also wonderful. Sammy’s face, appearing intermittently projected on a screen, makes this intimate story, which raises questions about how children are treated, even more poignant. Wouldn’t they have less difficulty growing up if adults knew better how to preserve a bit of their own childhood?”
Not presented this year.
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During his training in the Option-théâtre program at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, Francis Ducharme stepped into the world of theatre for young audiences with the play Tara au théâtre de l’océan. In 2003, he completed a course on masked play in Paris with Guy Freixe and founded the troupe Taxe Récréative Incluse. Francis Ducharme became known to the general public with Aphrodite en 04 at the Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental. He played Arthur Rimbaud in Carnet de damnés, inspired by Une saison en enfer, at the Salle Fred-Barry, and in 2005, he is appearing in Le traitement directed by Claude Poissant at Espace Go. Drawn to movement and body play, he is performing in works by the choreographer Dave St-Pierre: Le no man’s land show et La pornographie des âmes. Since he graduated from Option-théâtre in the spring of 2003, he has been seen on television in Grande Ourse, Watatatow, and Les Bougons – C’est aussi ça la vie, and in the films C.R.A.Z.Y. and Elles étaient cinq.
Since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1999, Danny Gagné has been moving back and forth between the stage and television. In theatre, he has worked with a number of Montreal companies under directors André Brassard, Patriq Chénier, Yves Desgagnés, Christina Iovita, Éric Jean, and Jean-Stéphane Roy. Quebecers have seen him on stage in Elle, la Nuit des rois, Jacques le fataliste,Cul-sec, and Marianne Vague. He has also appeared on television in the series Annie et ses hommes, Coroner, Bouscotte, and Quatre et demi. In 2000, he played the narrator in the Berlioz opera Béatrice et Bénédict, directed by Alice Ronfard. During his training, he played the title roles in Zorro and L’Oiseau vert, two shows for young audiences presented by La Roulotte. 
Trained in the Option-théâtre program at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, in 2002 Audrey Talbot continued her education in acting before the camera with actress Danielle Fichaud and in the art of tragedy with director Alice Ronfard. After graduating from the school in 2001, she performed for young audiences in a show inspired by a Grimm tale, De celui qui partit en quête de la peur, produced by Théâtre du Bonheur perdu. In 2002, she played Édith Fromage in and co-directed J’ai rêvé à des crêpes, a collage of texts by Christopher Durang, at La Petite licorne. Then, she was in the cast of La Méduse and Les quatre jumelles by Copi, two staged readings presented by young artists. In 2004, Audrey Talbot played in L’Oiseau vert at Salle Fred-Barry, a commedia dell’arte show presented again in 2005, in which she brilliantly plays the characters of Tartagliona and Smeraldina.
