2025 Comedy Award Recipient
Supported by an Anonymous Donor
Home Deliveries translated by Leanna Brodie
Translation of Catherine Léger’s original play, Deux Femmes en or; Adapted from the screenplay by Marie-José Raymond and Claude Fournier
Two housebound neighbours – one on mat leave, one on anti-depressants – strike up an unlikely friendship. Since their husbands barely notice they exist, they realize they are free to take their pleasure into their own hands… and why go out shopping for sexual satisfaction, when you can get it delivered? This witty, raucous, and irreverent exploration of female desire is feminist comedy like you’ve never seen it before: juicy, fearless, and full of joie de vivre. You’ll never wait for the cable guy quite the same way again!
The peer assessment panel said: “Home Deliveries is a comedy about modern relationships in a disconnected transactional world with quirky women, snappy dialogue, and a unique theatricality.”
Leanna Brodie is an award-winning performer and writer as well as a leading translator of Québécois and Franco-Canadian playwrights. Recent premieres: David Paquet’s Wildfire (Factory Theatre, Toronto); Anaïs Pellin’s Clementine (Kleine Compagnie/Carousel Theatre/PHT, Vancouver); Fanny Britt’s Benevolence (Ruby Slippers Theatre/Pacific Theatre, Vancouver); Sébastien Harrisson’s From Alaska (Belfry Theatre, Victoria); Rébecca Déraspe’s I Am William (Stratford Festival, Théâtre le Clou). Her own plays include Salesman in China, written in colloboration with Jovanni Sy, which just premiered at the Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre to great acclaim. Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award, QWF Award, Flourish Prize, PGC (Tom Hendry) Award. Many thanks to Michael Petrasek at Kensington Literary Representation. www.leannabrodie.com
Catherine Léger writes for film, TV and theatre. Charlotte a du fun won Best Original Screenplay at the 2019 Canadian Screen Awards. The film, directed by Sophie Lorain, played at several festivals, including Tribeca, Tokyo and Angoulême. She also co-wrote La petite reine (2014), directed by Alexis Durand Brault, and adapted Geneviève Pettersen’s novel La déesse des mouches à feu, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and officially selected for the 70th Berlin International Film Festival 2020. Television: Les invisibles (TVA, 2019), Marche à l’ombre (Super Écran, 2017). Theatre: Princesses (Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, 2011), J’ai perdu mon mari (Quai des arts, Carleton-sur-mer, 2014), Filles en liberté (Théâtre La Licorne, 2018). Baby-sitter, presented at Théâtre La Licorne in April 2017, has been performed in Ohio, Limoges and Munich. The film, directed by Monia Chokri, opened in France and Canada in spring 2022, and was selected for Sundance and Tribeca. She recently premiered Changer de vie. A film adaptation of her play Deux femmes en or will be released in May 2025.
Special thanks to Comedy Award Peer Assessment Panelists: Kevin Loring (Chair), Natasha MacLellan, and Zahida Rahemtulla.