The Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui awarded young playwright Camille Paré-Poirier its playwriting prize for the 2022-2023 season.
Her play Je rai less often was chosen for this prize along with a $10,000 creation grant from the Michelle-Rossignol Endowment Fund.
This prize is awarded by the public, who must give their opinion at the end of each performance of the season. The winner is then chosen in proportion to the number of tickets issued.
I will come less often, presented at the Salle Jean-Claude-Germain just recently, was the subject of a podcast entitled Someone Immortal. For four years, Camille Paré-Poirier recorded her conversations with her grandmother Pauline as she passed through the final stages of her life.
“It is with complete happiness that I welcome this award!” I searched for a long time how to tell our story, that of Pauline and me. A story about caring and what it means to be there. I searched for so long how to tell our story that I lost my grandmother in the process of writing. For me, remembering is a gesture of fiction, of invention. We write every day revisiting the past and fantasizing about the future. Sometimes we are lucky and the reality is even more beautiful than in our fantasies. Today I am lucky. And my joy is truer than true! I share it with each member of the I will come less often team, ”said Camille Paré-Poirier in a press release.
