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Larry Tremblay

LARRY TREMBLAY   (1954 - )

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Larry Tremblay (b at Chicoutimi, Que 17 April 1954) is a writer, director, actor and specialist in Kathakali, an elaborate dance theatre form which he has studied on numerous trips to India. He has published twenty books as a playwright, poet, novelist and essayist. The recent publication of Talking Bodies (Talonbooks, 2001) brought together four of his plays in English translation. He played the role of Leo in his own play Le Declic du destin in many festivals in Brazil and Argentina. The play received a new production in Paris in 1999 and was highly successful at the Festival Off in Avignon in 2000. Thanks to an uninterrupted succession of new plays (Anatomy Lesson, Ogre, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, Les Mains bleues, Teleroman, among others) in production during the 90s, Tremblays work continues to achieve international recognition. His plays, premiered for the most part in Montreal, have also been produced, often in translation, in Italy, France, Belgium, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and Scotland. In 2001, Le Ventriloque had three separate productions in Paris, Brussels and Montreal; it has since been translated into numerous languages. More recently, Tremblay collaborated with Welsh Canadian composer John Metcalf on a new opera: A Chair in Love, a concert version of which premiered in Montreal in April 2005. One of Quebecs most versatile writers, Tremblay currently teaches acting at lecole superieure de theatre de lUniversite du Quebec a Montreal.

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Larry Tremblay

CHANTAL BILODEAU  

Abraham Lincoln Goes To The Theatre

1st Produced:

Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary (Alberta)

2010

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1st Published:

Talonbooks, 2010

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0889226494

Music:

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Genre:

Translation

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Original Playwright - Larry Tremblay

Abraham Lincoln Goes To The Theatre

The actor John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. Mark Killman - a feared but much admired director - draws inspiration from this historical fact to create a show about the schizophrenia of America. He hires two actors to reenact the Presidential assassination through the comic characters of Laurel and Hardy and keeps for himself the role of Abraham Lincoln's wax figure. Why is Killman interested in this political assassination? Why does he want to stage a tragedy using the means of a comedy? And by the way, who is hiding behind Abraham Lincoln's wax figure?

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LARRY TREMBLAY  

Anatomy Lesson

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1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,

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SHELIA FISCHMAN  

Talking Bodies

1st Produced:

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n/a

1st Published:

Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0889224452

Music:

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Original Playwright - Larry Tremblay

Talking Bodies

n/a

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KEITH TURNBULL  

Ventriloquist, The

1st Produced:

Factory Studio, Toronto

22 Apr 2006

Organisations:

n/a

1st Published:

Talon Books 2006

ISBN/ASIN:

978-0889225367

Music:

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Genre:

Translation

Parts:

Male

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Female

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Parts other:

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Notes:

Original Playwright - Larry Tremblay

Ventriloquist, The

Gaby is given a pen for her 16th birthday. Everything she writes comes true. She starts to write a great love story - then her brother steals the pen. Years later in therapy her doctor is trying to get her to finish the story

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