By Alidor Aucoin on February 11, 2010
Imagine, if you will a shoot -out between two of North America’s most
famous French-Canadian word slingers, Michel Tremblay and Jack
Kerouac. George Rideout’s Michel & Ti-Jean, playing at the Centaur
until March 7, is an unexpected surprise, a daring, novel audacious
idea that actually works on stage. The encounter between the two takes
place in 1969, one month before Kerouac drank himself to death.
Tremblay, who was then 27 and anxious to validate himself as a writer,
hitchhikes to St. Petersburg, Fla., with a copy of his then as yet
unproduced play, Les Belles Soeurs in his knapsack to give to Kerouac
to read.
