What If?

Au Manitoba Theatre for Young People, le jeu tient la vedette. Debout au milieu de la scène, William, dix ans, répète un formidable nouveau rôle : celui de Leslee Silverman, la force visionnaire derrière le seul théâtre professionnel du Canada anglais destiné au jeune public. Leslee Silverman l'observe, avec la sagesse et la bonne humeur qui la caractérisent. Puisant à même la riche tradition culturelle de Winnipeg, elle entraîne les jeunes dans l'aventure du théâtre, mue par la conviction que l'art appartient à tous. Et elle n'oublie jamais de jouer.

An award-winning actor, writer, producer and director, Gross has struggled, like writers and filmmakers before him, to find the right balance between the heart and the head, between intellect and emotions. But sometimes a story lodges captivating a filmmaker and simply won't leave. For Paul Gross, this story was Passchendaele. The seeds of the film sprang from Paul's grandfather's experiences in the WWI battle, a battle that claimed the lives of thousands of Canadian infantrymen and became synonymous with Canada's courage and resolution in the face of epic tragedy. This film was produced for the 2009 Governor General's Performing Arts Award.

George F. Walker's career has spanned almost four decades, more than 20 plays, and a number of award-winning television series, but Rolly and Stevie (from Walker's play Criminal Genius) have succeeded in tying the notoriously elusive dramatist down. To a chair. With lots of rope. Director Scott Smith's wicked reversal of theatrical order, puts Walker in the centre of one of his own creations.