Les Belles Soeurs

Les Belles Soeurs
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1992
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780889223028

A housewife wins a million trading-stamps and invites her friends over to paste them into books. Cast of 15 women.

The Guid Sisters

The Guid Sisters
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781550965230

This classic play has been translated before, but only into a pallid approximation of the original joual. Scots, however, is an energetic and earthy vernacular with a distinctive sound system equal to joual. The play, a landmark in Canadian theatre, can now be truly appreciated in this superb translation, just as audiences in Glasgow and Moscow have learned to laugh with these ladies.

National Performance

National Performance
Author: Erin Hurley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442640952

In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs, Carbone 14's image-theatre, Marco Micone's writing practices, Celine Dion's popular music, and feminist performance of the 1970s and 80s, Hurley reveals the ways in which certain performances come to be understood as 'national' while others are relegated to sub-national or outsider status. Each chapter focuses on a particular historical moment in Quebec's modern history and a genre of performance emblematic of the moment, and uses these to elaborate the nature of the national performances. Winner of the Northeast Modern Language Association's Book Prize, National Performance is sophisticated yet accessible, seeking to enlarge the parameters of what counts as 'Quebecois' performance, while providing a thorough introduction to changing discourses of nation-ness in Quebec.

The Unmanageable Sisters

The Unmanageable Sisters
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Female friendship
ISBN: 9781848427440

Green Shield Stamps, a million of them, and Ger Lawless has won them all. It's Ballymun, it's 1974, and she has fifteen friends round for a stamp-sticking party. Over one fateful night, fifteen determined women bring you into their lives in this funny and furious new version of Michel Tremblay's fêted Québécoise comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs.

The Rez Sisters

The Rez Sisters
Author: Theatre Aquarius Archives (University of Guelph)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1994
Genre:
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Bonjour, Là, Bonjour

Bonjour, Là, Bonjour
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1988
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780889222526

A beloved brother returns to his family. Cast of 6 women and 2 men.

Forever Yours, Marie-Lou

Forever Yours, Marie-Lou
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780889223493

Tremblay's penetrating analysis of a Quebec family unit. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

La Maison Suspendue

La Maison Suspendue
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher: Longueuil : Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille
Total Pages: 101
Release: 1991-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780889222953

A rich, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. Cast of 3 women, 4 men and 1 boy.

Sainte-Carmen of the Main

Sainte-Carmen of the Main
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1981
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Cultural awakening and a country-and-western singer from Montreal's The Main." Cast of 4 women, 13 men and a chorus.