Swollen Tongues, the gender-bending romantic comedy in verse by Georgia Straight theatre writer Kathleen Oliver, is bound for France.

The play, which won Canada's 1997 National Playwrighting competition, is getting a French translation and is set to debut from September 17 to 22 at Theatre L'Escale in Levallois, just outside of Paris, with hopes of travelling to the City of Lights in the near future.

Swollen Tongues premiered at the 1998 Women in View Festival in Vancouver, winning a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for playwrighting. It has since travelled to London with Off the Cuff Theatre Company (where TimeOut called it "A delightful two hours’ entertainment, embroiling Shakespearean gender-bending, Moliere-esque rapier thrusts of comic verse and a ‘Cyrano’-style faith in poetic panache and the powers of wooing by proxy. Warmly recommended"), followed by appearances in Toronto and Ottawa.