Nino Haratischwili: Canadian Stage and Rehearsal Room

nino haratischwili: At Canadian Stage, he's about to direct the English-language premiere of Liv Stein, a play by a young Georgian playwright named Nino Haratischwili, who lives in Hamburg and writes in German, according to Globe and Mail. One of the joys of Jocelyn's tenure at the head of Canadian Stage over the past seven seasons has been his introduction of artists such as Haratischwili to Toronto audiences. As 2017 begins, Jocelyn, sitting down for his first interview with The Globe and Mail since the Canstage SoWhite controversy, seems ready to move forward and is happy to be back in a rehearsal room. Unlike previous regimes, he's been a leader in producing international work first, rather than waiting for a script to first be given the stamp of approval in New York or London. As it turns out, Jocelyn connected strongly and personally with a script he calls a good old-fashioned play for which he has commissioned a translation by local German-speaking playwright and director Birgit Schreyer Duarte. In this case, Liv Stein came to Jocelyn's attention not during his own European travels, but via local actor Alon Nashman who, he says, had seen the play on holiday, not understood a word and yet felt it would be right up Canadian Stage's alley. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.