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MICHEL MARC BOUCHARD (1958 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard emerged on the professional theatre scene in 1985. Since then he has written twenty-five plays and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including, in June 2012, the prestigious National Order of Quebec for his contribution to Quebec culture, and, in 2005, the Order of Canada. He has also received le Prix Litteraire du Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de lOutaouais, the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, and the Chalmers Award for Outstanding New Play. Translated into nine languages, Bouchards bold, visionary works have represented Canada at major festivals around the world.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Michel Marc Bouchard
Coronation Voyage, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780889224223 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12906 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Bouchard | |||||
| 1953 and a group of Canadians are sailing to England for the Coronation. The passengers include a woman who talks to her dead sons; a mobster on the run who gets a fourteen year old boy to sleep with a diplomat so he can get a visa and a concert pianist whose hands were crippled in a mobster hit who falls for his protege. | |||||
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Down Dangerous Passes Road | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books 2001 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224207 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12907 | |||
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Genre: | Translation. - - Gay, theme/character, full length | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Marc Bouchard | |||||
| Fifteen years after the death of their father three brothers drive to where it happened | |||||
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Heat Wave | ||
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| 1st Published: | Scirocco Drama 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781896239095 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13647 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Bouchard | |||||
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Lilies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canada | 1992 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780887545450 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82605 | |||
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Genre: | Gay, full length | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Bouchard. Lilies won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Chalmers Award for Best Play in 1992. The film adaptation became an audience favourite at the 1996 San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and won the Canadian Genie (equivalent to the American Academy Award) for Best Motion Picture of 1996. The love story no-one ever told you... | |||||
| Simon Doucet, unjustly imprisoned for nearly forty years, invites his old friend Bishop Jean Bilodeau to a special theatrical event designed to inspire him to confess the events of a fiery Autumn evening in 1912. Simon must know what happened to his beautiful young lover Vallier in "...those minutes that cost me the last forty years of my life". Lilies tells the romantic, sensual and moving story of Doucet and Bilodeaus shared Catholic past and tormented present. | |||||
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Madonna Painter, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #143838 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Marc Bouchard | |||||
| In an effort to stave off the Spanish 'flu epidemic at the end of the First World War, a parish priest commissions a foreign artist to paint a frescoe of the Virgin Mary. He is to choose from for cirgin villagers named Mary who will be his model | |||||
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Orphan Muses | ||
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| 1st Published: | Scirocco Drama 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781896239040 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12913 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Bouchard | |||||
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Tale Of Teeka, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780889224100 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12918 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Bouchard | |||||
| Quebec 1950. Maurice has taken refuge in a fantasy life. Left alone on the family farm one day he invites his pet goose indoors | |||||
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Tom At The Farm | ||
| 1st Produced: | (as Tom a la Ferme) Theatre d'Aujourd'hui, Montreal, Quebec | 11 Jan 2011 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889227590 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #150942 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Marc Bouchard. In a play that unfolds with progressively blurred boundaries between lust and brutality, between truth and elaborate ?ction, Bouchard dramatizes how gay men often must learn to lie before they learn how to love. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Tom at the Farm was produced in Quebec and France, as Tom à la ferme, and in Mexico, as Tom en la granja. Award-winning Quebec director Xavier Dolan adapted the play for the screen in 2013, with Caleb Landry Jones in the leading role. | |||||
| Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her son, Francis neither of whom know Tom even exists. Arriving at the remote rural farm, and immediately drawn into the dysfunction of the familys relationships, Tom is blindsided by his lost partners legacy of untruth. With the mother expecting a chainsmoking girlfriend, and the older brother hellbent on preserving a facade of normalcy, Tom is coerced into joining the duplicity until, at last, he confronts the torment that drove his lover to live in the shadows of deceit.The lover the friend, the son, the brother, the nameless dead man has left behind a fable woven of false-truths which, according to his own teenage diaries, were essential to his survival. In this same rural setting, one young man had once destroyed another young man who loved yet another. Like an ancient tragedy, years later, this drama will shape the destiny of Tom. | |||||
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Written on Water | ||
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| 1st Published: | Northwestern University Press, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82606 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel Bouchard | |||||
Synopsis: | A flood has washed away the old people's records and their written memories | |||||
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Escurial | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Modern Theatre volume Five" published by Doubleday Anchor | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100383 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 0 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Michel De Ghelderode | |||||
Synopsis: | The King, a monk and the Jester all wait as the Queen lies dying | |||||
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