2013 Gordon Armstrong
Playwright’s Rent Award.
Presented as part of
the Jessies Nomination Party
Congratulations
to all the Jessie Nominees! We are pleased to celebrate this year’s
GAPRA.
Gordon was a
B.C. playwright who had been developing a national reputation when sadly he
died of AIDS related illness in 1996. With support from playwrights Dennis Foon
and Tom Cone, Gordon’s mother, and Origins Theatre Projects, this award was
established at that time.
As our community
looks back on its past accomplishments, this CASH award looks to the future of
what might appear on our stages down the road. Thank you to this year’s donor,
a long time Vancouver theatre supporter, Bruce Gregg.
The final
adjudicator from London England, Mr. John Patterson reports that it was a
difficult choice. We salute everyone who faces the blank page.
In this
year’s recipient’s own words, she says of the two plays she is currently
working on that they
‘…strive to
give voice to those who are marginalized in North American society, allowing
the characters to speak truth to power not as victims – as they are so often
portrayed – but as complex human beings who are not without their own flaws and
uncertainties. As a Canadian artist of Chinese descent, I am passionate about
contributing a different perspective to the conversation of what it means to be
Canadian…”
Also noted
for the last coproduction with Visceral Visions, Urban Ink and the late
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Confessions
of the other Women, the 2013 recipient is……
Valerie Sing Turner.
Thank-you!
