By Alidor Aucoin on October 1, 2009
If there’s any doubt that Michel Tremblay is a national resource, all
you have to do is look around . He’s everywhere. Tremblay’s latest
play – his 30th– Fragments des mensonges inutiles, is at the Theatre
Jean Duceppe until October 17. His fifth novel, La Traversée des
sentiments, comes out in November, and a musical based on his
classic, Les Belles-Soeurs, (lyrics by René Richard Cyr and music by
Daniel Bélanger) will be staged next spring at Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui,
and is already a box office hit. Tremblay is also doing the French
translation of Steve Gallucio’s farce, Piazza San Domenico, which
opens the Centaur season Oct. 6 , Michel Tremblay is also a character
who banters with Jack Kerouac in George Rideout’s play, Michel &
Ti-jean, at the Centaur in February. A production of Albertine in Five
Times is at the Shaw Festival until mid October, and next year,
Stratford will produce For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again.
