The Guid Sisters and other plays

Michel Tremblay

The Guid Sisters and other plays
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
10 October 1991
Pages
169
ISBN
9781854591180

The Guid Sisters and other plays

Michel Tremblay

Three plays from the renowned Quebecois writer.

The Guid Sisters is a Scots version of Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles Soeurs (Montreal, 1968), by Bill Findlay & Martin Bowman.

Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

Manon/Sandra is a controversial but humane duet crosscutting between the lives of Manon, an obsessively religious girl, and ‘Sandra’, a sex-obsessed transvestite.

Albertine in Five Times is a one-act portrait of a woman at five different ages.

‘When Tremblay’s Les Belles Soeurs opened in Montreal in 1968 it shocked, it confounded, and extablished the then 26-year-old playwright’s reputation immediately … Tremblay is not merely a Quebecois writer, he is a cultural hero’
- Guardian on ‘The Guid Sisters’

‘A sharp, merciless black comedy … the Tremblay dialogue - written in the once despised 'joual’ French dialect of Quebec - translates into urban Scots as though the languages were long lost twins’
- Scotsman on ‘The Guid Sisters

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