You’ve heard of the Montreal English Theatre Awards, established in 2012? The peer-juried METAs celebrate exceptional artistic work in Montreal’s English theatre, in order to increase visibility of professional and emerging English theatre artists and companies and promote a critical discourse about theatre among Montreal’s artists and the community at large. (Please read their “Training Your Critical Eye” brochure.) For its seventh annual edition, the META jury will award 17 awards, including the new Outstanding Choreography and/or Movement Direction Award, two honorary awards and a community award. The ceremony, which will take place on Nov. 3 at the Monument-National’s Salle Ludger-Duvernay, will be directed by Cristina Cugliandro and written by and hosted by Tatyana Olal with two-time nominee Patrick Émmanuel Abellard. Party guaranteed. www.METAS.ca
After celebrating last year the company’s 50th anniversary, a wind of change is moving through the only bilingual Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) in Canada: Youtheatre. The new artistic duo Véronique Bossé and Jeremy Segal take the wheel of Quebec’s oldest theatre for young audiences. Open to new interdisciplinary forms and sharp story-telling, the pair is about to launch a series of workshops around Molecular Futures, the company’s coming children’s premiere. www.youtheatre.ca
Discover the National Theatre School’s graduating class of 2020 in acting, playwriting, production design and technical arts, and set and costume design. The graduating students present Métis performer and playwright Marie Clements’ play Burning Vision, in which she traces the journey of uranium from the bowels of the Northwest Territories to the atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man. Directed by award-wining Montreal-based actor and Geordie Theatre artistic director Mike Payette in the fabulous Ludger-Duvernay Theatre at the Monument-National. And pay what you can! (Dec. 9–14). www.ent-nts.ca
