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The Guid Sisters and other plays

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Three plays from the renowned Quebecois writer. The Guid Sisters is a Scots version of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs (Montreal, 1968), by Bill Findlay & Martin Bowman. Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out. Manon/Sandra is a controversial but humane duet crosscutting between the lives of Manon, an obsessively religious girl, and 'Sandra', a sex-obsessed transvestite. Albertine in Five Times is a one-act portrait of a woman at five different ages. 'When Tremblay's Les Belles Soeurs opened in Montreal in 1968 it shocked, it confounded, and extablished the then 26-year-old playwright's reputation immediately ... Tremblay is not merely a Quebecois writer, he is a cultural hero' — Guardian on 'The Guid Sisters' 'A sharp, merciless black comedy ... the Tremblay dialogue - written in the once despised 'joual' French dialect of Quebec - translates into urban Scots as though the languages were long lost twins' — Scotsman on 'The Guid Sisters'

Author Biography:

Michel Tremblay is a French Canadian novelist and playwright, born in Montreal, Quebec. His first professionally produced play, Les Belles-Sœurs, was written in 1965 and premiered at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert on August 28, 1968. It stirred up controversy by portraying the lives of working-class women and attacking the straight-laced, deeply religious society of mid-20th century Quebec. A version of the play in Scots English, The Guid Sisters, translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman, was premiered at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 1989; and a version set in Ireland, The Unmanageable Sisters by Deirdre Kinahan, premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2018. His other notable works include: À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou (1970); La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte (1978); Albertine, en cinq temps (Albertine in Five Times) (1984); Le Vrai Monde? (1987); and Messe solennelle pour une pleine lune d'été (Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer) (1996).
Release date NZ
October 10th, 1991
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Translated by Bill Findlay
  • Translated by Bill Glassco
  • Translated by John Van Burek
  • Translated by Martin Bowman
Pages
169
Dimensions
132x198x14
ISBN-13
9781854591180
Product ID
1941447

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