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Michel Tremblay

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Poor Wet Cat Redux

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Nelligan, Monument National

by Lev Bratishenko
08.03.2010

André Gagnon’s opera Nelligan premiered in 1990 at the Grand Theatre de Québec with a pop cast. On Saturday, the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal reprised it, twenty years on, at the Monument National. A more ambitious production than anything the Opéra de Montréal has dared at Place des Arts, it is full of [...]

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THEATRE

A Night to Remember

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Michel & ti-Jean, Centaur Theatre

by Marianne Ackerman
06.02.2010

For the record, a young Michel Tremblay never went stateside to track down the legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac, though watching George Rideout’s brilliant new play inspired by What if … you’ll be tempted to believe he did. Michel & ti-Jean’s invitation to suspend disbelief is easy to accept.

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Plus ça change…

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Fragments de mensonges inutiles, Théâtre Jean-Duceppe

by Mélanie Grondin
23.09.2009

Comment auriez-vous réagi, en 1959, si vous aviez appris que votre enfant était homosexuel? L’auriez-vous injurié, lui auriez-vous tourné le dos ou l’auriez-vous soutenu à votre corps défendant? En maintenant, maintenant que le mariage gai est légal et que les couples homosexuels peuvent adopter un enfant, comment réagiriez-vous?

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