Biennial of translation with Tim Crouch

11am // Meeting with Tim Crouch

read the biography of Tim Crouch

2.30pm // Reading of Beginners by Tim Crouch translated by Catherine Hargreaves

Beginners tells the story of three families trapped in a waterlogged holiday cottage over summer. The children are bored. The adults are down the pub. So far so normal.
An exquisite, funny and moving story that reminds us that the adult we’ll be and the child we were stay with us wherever we go.

Beginners is published by Bloomsbury Publishing in the Oberon Modern Plays series

Catherine Hargreaves is a director, actress, translator and artistic co-director of the company les 7 sœurs, an associate company of the MC2 in Grenoble where she will direct Back to reality in 2024, a bilingual play co-written with Adèle Gascuel. In 2017/2018, she researched Tim Crouch’s writing as an associate of the TNG-CDN in Lyon and directed An Oak Tree, I, Malvolio and I, Peaseblossom. She translated Beginners, the I, Shakespeare plays (co-translated with Adèle Gascuel), An Oak tree, and Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel by Tim Crouch; I do believe in monsters, Melissa Bubnic (co translated with Adelaïde Pralon), The wonderful world of Dissocia and Realism, Anthony Neilson, and War and breakfast, Mark Ravenhill.

Find out all about the programme for the biennial translation event on the Chartreuse-CNES Villeneuve lez Avignon website.

Based on Beginners by Tim Crouch
Translated by Catherine Hargreaves
A reading directed by Julie Moulier with the Chartreuse actor-reader group, Charly Breton, Béla Czuppon, Margot Madec, Aurélie Turlet and the child readers, Johan Bourges, Victoria Manfrini Tondre, Naìtché Mourles and Jeanne Quadri.

Production Chartreuse-CNES Villeneuve lez Avignon
Coproduction Maison Antoine-Vitez, la SCH Sélection Suisse en Avignon, DeAuteurs, ETC Caraïbe Festival d’Avignon, Comédie de Caen-CDN de Normandie