Shorelines
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- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2023
- Subjects
- Women Authors, Canadian
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- 9780369104632
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
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Description
A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned pool with what they are able to scavenge from the abandoned houses, while government official Portia returns to familiar places, her past colliding with the present. The planned evacuation notice that eventually reaches all cities has finally come, but the twins learn that survival is not guaranteed. As they rush to reach their grandmother, a retired journalist now living with dementia, her snippets of memories flow like humanity’s record player, skipping tracks before the final flood.
A non-linear poetic play that acts like a postcard from the future, Shorelines is about family and community in a world ravaged by climate change. It also speaks to the inevitable inequality of disaster response and how poorer communities are disproportionately affected by it. Mishka Lavigne’s message within her lyrical piece is urgent and multi-dimensional: it is a reminder that all things are connected and hope can only lie in the relationships we form with the people around us.
About the author
Mishka Lavigne (she/her) is a playwright, screenwriter, and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been produced and developed in Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Australia, Haiti, and the United States. Her play Havre was awarded the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama (French). Her play Copeaux, a movement-based poetic creation piece with director Éric Perron, premiered in Ottawa in March 2020 and was also awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2021 as well as the Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier—Outaouais. Albumen, her first play written in English, received the Prix Rideau Award for Outstanding New Creation in 2019 and the QWF Playwriting Prize in 2020. Mishka is currently working on a bilingual opera libretto with Montreal composer Tim Brady and on two new creations in French, as well as on some translation and screenwriting projects.
Awards
- Short-listed, Carol Bolt Award
- Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Awards
- Short-listed, QWF Prize for Playwriting
Editorial Reviews
Plays that linger, that evoke images we can't shake are the kind of plays we revisit to better understand our fears and the difficult truths that are easier to sweep away than confront. Cue the spotlight that reveals the price we pay when we bury our heads in the sand. Increasingly, sand is all that is left as fresh water recedes in Mishka Lavigne's harrowing Shorelines. Her gift as a playwright is to create a poetic vision of a world besieged by a crisis of our own making, and make us care about the fate of four deftly-etched characters as if our lives depended on it.
QWF Playwriting Prize Jury