It was during a ceremony held in the stables on the occasion of the never read festival that the Center of Dramatic Authors Foundation has given the Michel-Tremblay 2024 prize to Éric Noël for his play L’Amoure looks something like you. This prize, which has rewarded since 2009 the best text brought to the scene during the previous season, is accompanied by a scholarship of $ 10,000 offered by the Quebec Arts and Letters Council.
Graduated from the dramatic writing program of the National Theater School in 2009, Éric Noël won the Gratien-Gélinas Prize in 2010 for Make children (Leméac). His room These romantic looks of altered boys (Leméac) is currently presented in the intimate room of the Prospero theater in a staging by Philippe Cyr.
To describe L’amoure looks something like youa play published in 2022 by hammock and created the following year by the company Exlibris with 11 artists LGBTQ+ in the Fred-Barry hall of the Denise-Pelletier theater, the jury made up of Frédéric Blanchette and Aki Matsushita, authors, and Danièle Lévesque, scenographer, spoke of a “very successful fable that tells which, in the pandemic context, was collective ”.
-Regarding this mystical love story between a non -binary person and a humpback whale, the jury added: “From very rich metaphors which were put at the service of a deep and generous introspection, this text went able to touch everyone. The jury was particularly seduced by writing a rare sensitivity, sometimes very raw, but above all of great poetry. »»
The other four finalists of the Michel-Tremblay 2024 prize were Pascal Brullemans for Homicide (Publisher dramatist), Olivier Choinière for The last cassette (Atelier 10), Francis Monty pour My fire tale. By bike between the bombs that fall (Leméac) and Mishka Lavigne for Murs (L’Alligne).
Let us recall in finishing that the winner of the Michel-Tremblay prize last year was Rébecca Deraspe.
