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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
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: | - | doollee no | #123381 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Larry Tremblay | |||||
| 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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Anatomy Lesson | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34920 | |||
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Talking Bodies | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224452 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34921 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Larry Tremblay | |||||
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Ventriloquist, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Factory Studio, Toronto | 22 Apr 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889225367 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133681 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Larry Tremblay | |||||
| 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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