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Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay is the most important playwright in Quebec theatre history. Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman have translated eight of Tremblay's plays into Scots, capturing the energy and versatility of…
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A housewife wins a million trading-stamps and invites her friends over to paste them into books. Cast of 15 women.
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Michelle Tremblay
City Moose and Wilderness Moose Trade Places is a heartwarming tale that encourages young readers to embrace differences, explore the unknown, and cherish the unique qualities that make each individual…
Michael Tremblay’s 1968 play, Les Belles-Soeurs, takes a crate of gift stamps, a Montreal kitchen, and fifteen women steeped in ‘joual’. Mixing dialogue, monologue and chorus, he produces a critique…
A Crossing of Hearts continues the Desrosiers Diaspora novel series, a family saga set in Montreal during World War I.
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At the crossroads that lead to the end of childhood, Nana faces the hectic passage of her adolescence and the new responsibilities that fall on her shoulders when her grandmother…
Michel Tremblay’s Twists of Fate gathers volumes 6 and 7 of the critically acclaimed Desrosiers Diaspora series of novels, If by Chance (set in 1925, about the great Ti-Lou, the…
In this second Plateau Mont-Royal novel, three schoolgirls live the mysteries of their rites of passage.
Two ex-lovers meet and compare and confess their fears and disillusionments. Cast of 2 men.
Fifth in a series of six novels juxtaposes the childhood experiences of the fat woman’s son and his gifted cousin.
Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay.
With humour and poignancy, Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together.
Tremblay recounts, with grace and tenderness, his mother’s death as a coda to his Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal series.
This is the third volume in Michel Tremblay’s Chronicles of the Plateau Mount-Royal.
A fusty academic falls in love with a young actor who also has a four-year-old son.
This fourth novel in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal follows Edouard, the fat woman’s brother-in-law, as he explores Paris.
An account of Michel Tremblay’s discovery of theatre, from his first recognition of the imagination to his first drama-competition win.
An opera diva newly returned from Paris, her celebrity mother and idealistic daughter. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
A tour of books that inspired Michel Tremblay’s imagination.
Albertine, Tremblay’s most unforgettable heroine, sets out to re-conquer her lost beau. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
The stormy relationship between Claude and his father Alex displays cruel irony on an Alzheimer’s ward. Cast of 2 men.
This delightful collection of eight autobiographical narratives offers the reader an exquisite remembrance of Michel Tremblay’s childhood past.
A remembrance of childhood in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, recrafted for the stage. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.
New translation of Tremblay’s moving portrait of an extraordinary ordinary woman in this Chalmers Award-winning play. Cast of 6 women.
Quebec’s literary supernova take his readers on delightful, historic (1913) cross-country train ride where we encounter a charming cast.
An evocative account of romantic adventure stamped with Tremblay’s signature wit and ironic humour.
A novel of wandering and the quest for a better life elsewhere.
Seven women in a Francophone working-class Montreal neighborhood are pregnant, but only the fat woman bears a child of love.
Patricia Awe
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Kanada, Note: 1,7, Universitat Augsburg, Veranstaltung: Kanadistik - Sprache und Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wider Erwarten sind die Chroniques nicht nur…
The life of a working-class family on The Main in East End Montreal. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
Plays by Quebec’s best-known playwright: La Duchesse de Langeais; Berthe; Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs; Surprise, Surprise; Gloria Star.
Cultural awakening and a country-and-western singer from Montreal’s The Main. Cast of 4 women, 13 men and a chorus.
Two interweaving monologues on the sacred and the profane. Cast of 1 woman and 1 man.
Three sisters have an impromptu and re-examine their personal and social problems. Cast of 4 women.
A rich, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 boy.
It’s May 1922, wedding preparations are in full swing, and old memories, past desires, and big regrets threaten to turn the big celebration into a big melee.
On six moonlit Montreal balconies, on a sultry summer’s evening, 11 people share their stories of love. The play has been translated into Scottish colloquial dialect from French Canadian.
New translation of Tremblay’s seminal 1970 play, where one family battles its awful past while facing a haunted present.
The stunning final two books of the magisterial Desrosiers Diaspora series Survive! Survive! transports readers to September 1935, to glorious, tragic times in the colourful company of Ti-Lou and the…
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Wider Erwarten sind ‘Les Chroniques du Plateau-Mont-Royal’ nicht nur eine Familiengeschichte, die in die soziale und historische Realitat Quebecs der 1940er und 1950er Jahre eingebettet ist, sondern sie werden erganzt…
A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men.
Young playwright draws on family as the raw material for his first work. Cast of 4 women and 3 men.
How our innocent childhood games come back to haunt our adult life. Cast of 4 women and 1 adolescent male.
Tremblay’s penetrating analysis of a Quebec family unit. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.
In a time when an unquestionable link between anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and climatic changes has finally been acknowledged and * widely documented through IPCC reports, the need for…
