Michel Tremblay - complete guide to the Playwright, Plays, Theatres, Agent

	MICHEL TREMBLAY (1942 - )
	Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a
	Literary Agent: Agence Goodwin English Language: represented by Alan Brodie

Michel Tremblay was born in Montreal in 1942. He is the most important playwright in the history of Quebec theatre and the most produced. Internationally he is considered one of the leading French-language Dramatists writing today. His plays have been translated into over 20 languages and staged worldwide. He has written nearly 30 plays, 20 translations and adaptations, 7 screenplays, the books of 3 musicals, an opera libretto, 12 novels, and 4 volumes of autobiography. He is the recipient of many honours and awards from home and abroad. Tremblay's career is distinguished by his sustained commitment to chronicling in his plays and novels the lives of the people of Plateau Mont-Royal, the francophone working-class area in Montreal where he grew up. An aspect of this has been his creative exploration of the resources of the urban dialect spoken there. The distinctive French of Quebec is known as Quebecois. In the 1960s the Montreal demotic variety was stigmatised by detractors as joual, or 'horse language' -- joual being the Quebecois pronunciation of standard French, cheval = 'horse'. Tremblay's 1968 play LES BELLES SOEURS (THE GUID SISTERS) proved a landmark work of considerable controversy because of its unapologetic assertion ofjoual -- and more broadly of Quebecois -- as a vehicle fit for serious and artistically ambitious Drama. LES BELLES SOEURS was first produced at the Theatre du Rideau Vert, in Montreal. It was immediately acclaimed by critics and public alike and has since been performed in many countries. In 1973, the Paris production, presented at l'Espace Cardin by the Montreal-based Compagnie des deux chaises, was declared the best foreign production of the year. LES BELLES SOEURS has been called the single most important event in the history of Quebec theatre. The 25th anniversary production in 1993, by La Compagnie Jean Duceppe, played to more than 100 sold-out houses at Place des Arts in Montreal, and on tour throughout Quebec. In 1972, Michel Tremblay wrote his first full-length film script, II eTAIT UNE FOIS DANS L'EST, which was directed by Andre Brassard in 1973. In 1974, the film represented Canada at the Cannes and Chicago Film Festivals. Brassard and Tremblay had previously collaborated on a short film, FRANcOISE DUROCHER, WAITRESS, which won three Canadian Genie prizes in 1972. In 1976, Tremblay wrote a second full-length film script, LE SOLEIL SE LeVE EN RETARD, which was also directed by Andre Brassard. His play, MESSE SOLENNELLE POUR UNE PLEINE LUNE D'eTe was given its first production by the Compagnie Jean Duceppe, in February, 1996. It has since been seen in translation under the title SOLEMN MASS FOR A FULL MOON IN SUMMER at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and subsequently at the Barbican Theatre, London in 2000. His most recent play ENCORE UN FOIS, SI VOUS PERMETTEZ was first produced in 1998 at the Theatre Rideau Vert and almost simultaneously performed by Centaur Theatre in the English version FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAIN. In 1999-2000 this last production was seen on a Canadian tour. He has received 6 grants from the Canada Arts Council, as well as many honours, including Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France in 1984 (promoted to Officier in 1991). In the same year he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Quebec.He has been given four honorary doctorates by Concordia University and McGill University in Quebec, the University of Windsor in Ontario, and Stirling University in Scotland. In 1999 he received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award.

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Michel Tremblay

MARTIN BOWMAN

Albertine In Five Times

1st Produced:	- - -			0
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	in The Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London,			ISBN/ASIN:	978-185491180
Music:	-			doollee no	#4164
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	6
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay
	Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine. Albertine at 30 is recuperating in the country after viciously beating her 11-year-old daughter; Albertine at 40 is a virago at war with the world; at 50 she has rejected her past by reinventing it; at 60 she has given in to depression; at 70 she's found a kind of peace. First performed in London in 1986 at the Donmar Warehouse.
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BILL FINDLAY

Albertine In Five Times

1st Produced:	- - -			0
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	in The Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London,			ISBN/ASIN:	978-185491180
Music:	-			doollee no	#11665
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	6
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay
	Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine. Albertine at 30 is recuperating in the country after viciously beating her 11-year-old daughter; Albertine at 40 is a virago at war with the world; at 50 she has rejected her past by reinventing it; at 60 she has given in to depression; at 70 she's found a kind of peace. First performed in London in 1986 at the Donmar Warehouse.
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LINDA GABORIAU

Albertine In Five Times

1st Produced:	- - -			- - -
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	in The Guid Sister, Nick Hern Books, London,			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0889226272
Music:	-			doollee no	#34922
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	6
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay
	Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine. Albertine at 30 is recuperating in the country after viciously beating her 11-year-old daughter; Albertine at 40 is a virago at war with the world; at 50 she has rejected her past by reinventing it; at 60 she has given in to depression; at 70 she's found a kind of peace. First performed in London in 1986 at the Donmar Warehouse.
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1st Produced:	La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 >>>			01 Dec 1983
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#34926
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Genre:	Play/Drama
Parts:	Male		1	Female	1
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay
Synopsis:	The play explores one of humanity's oldest questions: "where do I belong?" Through the intertwining monologues of Manon, an introverted Catholic zealot whose previously direct line of communication with God has collapsed, and Sandra, a flamboyant transvestite who has begun to realize that her existence cannot be built on the backsides of her lovers, each strives to find their solution in the sacred and the sacrilegious. We see that perhaps these two characters have more in common than they ever could have imagined.
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1st Produced:	Bijou Theatre, Broadway, NY			1977
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0889222960
Music:	-			doollee no	#124404
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Genre:	Play/Drama
Parts:	Male		2	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay. Translated by John van Burek and Bill Glassco
	Middle age couple, a drag queen and a biker bicker, but are in love.
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1st Produced:	Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>			2002
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#4169
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		1	Female	1
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay. Translated By Martin Bowman And Bill Findlay
Synopsis:	explores different stages in the relationship between Tremblay and his lively outspoken mother.
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1st Produced:	Lawrence centre, Toronto			03 Apr 1973
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	Talonbooks >>>			ISBN/ASIN:	978-0889223028
Music:	-			doollee no	#13645
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		-	Female	15
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Playwright - Michel Tremblay. Translated by Bill Glassco And John Van Burek
	Germaine Lauzon has just won a million trading stamps in the local lottery. To get them pasted into books, she invites her four sisters and a variety of close friends to assist her. While Germaine dreams of things she's always wanted and can now buy for herself, her sisters and friends scheme to thwart her, as they turn jealous with no understanding as to why Germaine should win, anything. Each sister explains her view of Germaine's life while they scheme to pilfer stamps away from her. Thrown into the wacky group is Germaine's daughter, Linda, who, going through the Dramatic changes of a misunderstood teenager, needs help dealing with her mother, and invites her friend Lisette to the house. But Lisette needs advice too, being newly pregnant, and finds Dear aunt Pierrette, the black sheep of the family, to advise her on whether to have an abortion, put the baby up for adoption, or any other alternative. Germaine battles with Linda, when she suddenly, realises some of her stamps are missing and catches the lad
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1st Produced:	Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>			2000
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	Nick Hern Books, London, 2000			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#4174
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Genre:	Translation
Parts:	Male		5	Female	6
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay. Translated By Martin Bowman And Bill Findlay
Synopsis:	on six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. Each pieces together the landscape of an affair, tracing the graduations between intoxicating highs and heartbreaking lows.
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1st Produced:	- - -			1964
Organisations:	n/a
1st Published:	I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.			ISBN/ASIN:	-
Music:	-			doollee no	#53983
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Genre:	Play One Act
Parts:	Male		-	Female	-
Parts other:	-
Notes:	Original Playwright - Michel Tremblay
Synopsis:	n/a
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MICHEL TREMBLAY (1942 - )

Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Michel Tremblay

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