An Evening with Michel Tremblay
Americas Society, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 7pm
Michel Tremblay
Dialogue in English; reading in French and English
Michel Tremblay, the renowned playwright and novelist, and Eleanor Wachtel, host of CBC Radio’s “Writers & Company,” will converse about the author’s prodigious and wide-ranging career. Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs, originally produced in 1968, was groundbreaking for its use of joual, the popular speech of urban Québec, as well as for its exploration of gender and class issues. Together with Albertine in Five Times and Hosanna, it remains his most popular dramatic work. Tremblay’s oeuvre includes a dozen novels and 27 plays that have been produced internationally. Presented in collaboration with the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. (lampbane)… (more)
Dialogue in English; reading in French and English
Michel Tremblay, the renowned playwright and novelist, and Eleanor Wachtel, host of CBC Radio’s “Writers & Company,” will converse about the author’s prodigious and wide-ranging career. Tremblay’s Les Belles-Soeurs, originally produced in 1968, was groundbreaking for its use of joual, the popular speech of urban Québec, as well as for its exploration of gender and class issues. Together with Albertine in Five Times and Hosanna, it remains his most popular dramatic work. Tremblay’s oeuvre includes a dozen novels and 27 plays that have been produced internationally. Presented in collaboration with the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. (lampbane)… (more)
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