Anne Legault
Canadian actress, writer and educator
Anne Legault (born July 7, 1958) is a Quebec actor, writer and educator.[1]
She was born in Lachine and studied at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. Legault performed in children's theatre and on television before she began writing in 1984. Between 1984 and 1994, six of her plays were produced in theatres in Montreal.[1] She received the Governor General's Award for French-language drama in 1986 for her play La Visite des sauvages.[2]
English translations of two of her plays O'Neill and Alma and Mrs Woolf : An Imaginary Encounter were produced in New York City.[1]
Selected works
- Les ailes ou La maison cassée (1985)
- Signer (1988), about the people who signed the Refus Global manifesto
- O'Neill (1990), about playwright Eugene O'Neill
- Conte d'hiver '70 (1992), about the October Crisis
- La balance (1996), based on Shakespeare's play Henry V
- La mémoire de Rhéa (1994)
- Une fille pas comme les autres, youth novel (1997), illustrated by Leanne Franson
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References
- ^ a b c d "Anne Legault". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ a b "Legault, Anne" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
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Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama
- Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations (1981)
- John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982)
- Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land (1983)
- Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog (1984)
- George F. Walker, Criminals in Love (1985)
- Sharon Pollock, Doc (1986)
- John Krizanc, Prague (1987)
- George F. Walker, Nothing Sacred (1988)
- Judith Thompson, The Other Side of the Dark (1989)
- Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1990)
- Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar (1991)
- John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night (1992)
- Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas (1993)
- Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth (1994)
- Jason Sherman, Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1995)
- Colleen Wagner, The Monument (1996)
- Ian Ross, fareWel (1997)
- Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet (1998)
- Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy (1999)
- Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex (2000)
- Kent Stetson, The Harps of God (2001)
- Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918) (2002)
- Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift (2003)
- Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004)
- John Mighton, Half Life (2005)
- Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You (2006)
- Colleen Murphy, The December Man (2007)
- Catherine Banks, Bone Cage (2008)
- Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (2009)
- Robert Chafe, Afterimage (2010)
- Erin Shields, If We Were Birds (2011)
- Catherine Banks, It Is Solved by Walking (2012)
- Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays (2013)
- Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (2014)
- David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave (2015)
- Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl (2016)
- Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm (2017)
- Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (2018)
- Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game (2019)
- Kim Senklip Harvey, Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story (2020)
- Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (2021)
- Dorothy Dittrich, The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key (2022)
- Cliff Cardinal, As You Like It: A Radical Retelling (2023)
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