(En français... "I just Facebooked your mother.")
...turning 50...Upstage Contributor Alison Louder spoke with Co-Director Christian Lapointe about National Theatre School’s current bilingual presentation of En français comme en anglais, It’s easy to criticize. Below is an abridged version edited by Estelle Rosen, CharPo Editor-in-chief.
UPSTAGE
With us in studio is Christian Lapointe Co-Director of En français comme en anglais, It’s easy to criticize, a freely adapted work on writings of local writer and performer Jacob Wren being presented by the National Theatre School French and English graduating classes in a first ever collaborative project.
LAPOINTE
For the last year, the school has been celebrating its 50th anniversary. They wanted to close the celebrations with a collaborative work which has never happened in 50 years. When the school started I think classes were together but productions were not done together. With the two schools being separate, it was like two different schools under one roof.
Chris Abraham and I were asked to co-direct a piece with the graduating students. Though we looked at many options, we decided on Jacob Wren’s En français comme en anglais, it’s easy to criticize. We wanted the play to talk about our reality as a group of performers who have to work together with the challenge of translation and getting to know each other.
