He was delivered by Véronique Fontaine, president and general manager of the CALQ, during a ceremony held in the evening at the Théâtre aux Écuries, as part of the festival never read Montreal. The evening, hosted by the author and actor Jean-Philippe Lehoux, took place in the company of Rébecca Déraspe, winner of the 2023 edition.
Created in 2009 by the Foundation of the Center of Dramatic Authors, the Michel-Tremblay Prize aims to underline the excellence of dramatic French writing in Quebec, by rewarding a text created on the scene in the previous season. In addition to a scholarship of $ 10,000 offered by the CALQ, the price includes support in promoting the work and the course of its winner or winner. For this 15ᵉ edition, the scholarship is offered in partnership with the CEAD Foundation and Mr. Michel Tremblay.
The jury, composed of Frédéric Blanchette (author, translator, actor and director, member of the CEAD), Aki Matsushita (playwrights at the Playwrights Workshop Montreal and teacher at the National Theater of Canada) and Danièle Lévesque (scenographer and teacher L’Amoure looks something like you a “ Very successful fable which intimately tells a loneliness which, in the pandemic context, was collective. ».
Created by the company Exlibris, L’Amoure looks something like you Was presented at the Fred-Barry hall of the Denise-Pelletier theater, from August 29 to September 16, 2023. The text of the play is published by Hamac editions.
Spring 2020. While humanity goes back, an Rorqual ventures into the St. Lawrence River to the Port of Montreal. Isolated in his apartment, a non -binary person is developing a fascination of a distance for this humpback whale. Their mystical and dreamlike bond is anchored at the crossroads of affiliations to the genre, the living and the sacred. At the crossroads of the dramatic poem and the diary, this reading-performance offers a sensitive mapping of bodily, social and spiritual memories.
-– Summary of L’Amoure looks something like you
Éric Noël is a non-binary author, translator and performer established in Tiohtià: Ke-Mooniyang-Montréal. Graduate of the dramatic writing program of the national theater school in 2009, he stood out with Make children (Leméac, 2011), his first play created at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous, winner of the Gratien-Gélinas Prize. The work was subsequently translated into several languages.
In 2023, he wrote, featured and interpreter L’Amoure looks something like you Alongside ten LGBTQIA2S+artists, in a production praised in the Fred-Barry room. His room These romantic looks of altered boys (Leméac, 2025), first presented in reading at the festival never read, was created at the Prospero theater in April 2025 in a staging by Philippe Cyr. For the young audience, Éric Noël has signed several texts: The mother, the father, the little and the big (2012), Asteroid B 612 (Leméac, 2021), an adaptation of the small prince produced by the La Roulotte theater, as well as Pieces of light (2024), inspired by testimonies of young people in a situation of dependence.
Image credits: Eric Noël / Prix Michel-Tremblay
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