Description
Over one fateful night, fifteen determined women bring you into their lives in this funny and furious new version of Michel Tremblay's f ted Qu b coise comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs.
Author: Michel Tremblay
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 04/09/2019
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781848427440
ISBN10: 1848427441
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Women Authors
- Drama | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Deirdre Kinahan is a Dublin-based playwright and theatre producer who founded and runs the production company Tall Tales. Deirdre's first play published by Nick Hern Books - Moment - played at the Bush Theatre, London to critical acclaim and sell-out audiences.
Michel Tremblay is a French Canadian novelist and playwright, born in Montreal, Quebec. His first professionally produced play, Les Belles-Soeurs, 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).