It is the glorious second day of May, 1942. The sun is drawing the damp from earth still heavy with the end of a long Quebec winter, the budding branches of the trees along rue Fabre and in Parc Lafon
The year is 1967 - Expo - and everyone else in Montreal is waiting for the great day when they can visit the exotic foreign pavilions. For the characters of The Red Notebook, the second in Tremblay's
Talonbooks is pleased to announce a new edition of one of Michel Tremblay’s most unusual novels. First published in English translation by M&S in 1989 under the title The Heart Laid Bare [Le coeur
This play takes a crate of gift stamps, a Montreal kitchen, and 15 women, and mixing fast-moving dialogue, monologue and chorus, produces a critique of "women's place", Quebec society, and m
Alongside his dozens of fascinating and award-winning plays, and in addition to this great Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal series of six epic novels, his translations, adaptations, librettos, and
Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monolog
An opera diva, Patricia, (almost 50) meets her Waterloo singing Salome at the Opera Bastille in Paris. In an impromptu get-together in her Nuns’ Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from E
In Albertine in Five Times, Michel Tremblay portrayed one of his most unforgettable characters during five decades of her life, beginning in her thirties. Now, in Past Perfect, we meet Albertine at tw
Green Shield stamps, a million of them, and Ger Lawless has won them all. It's Ballymun, it's 1973 and she's got 15 friends round for a stamp-sticking party. Over one night, the lives of 15 women coll
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Reauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay’s work as ?Nana,” was sent with her two younger sisters, Bea and Alice, to be r
Assorted Candies for the Theatre is a stage adaptation of Michel Tremblay's fourth book of autobiographical sketches, Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies, offering a rich and colourful cast of charact
It has been some time since Luc, a 32-year-old actor and Jean-Marc, a 38-year-old French teacher, have seen each other, but the wounds from their seven year love affair are only partially healed. Each
Carmen returns home to convince Manon, her sister, to end ten years of mourning the death of their parents, Léopold and Marie-Louise. Past and present intermingle as the two daughters struggle to reco
In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Celine Poulin works the night shift at a cheap and popular restaurant, Le Select, serving hamburger platters and s
Bambi and Me consists of 12 autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the young life of Michel Tremblay, one of their biggest fans. Among others, he talks about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
August 1915. Montreal is stifled by a heat wave while war rages in Europe. Maria takes her children, Nana and Theo, for a week-long trip to the Laurentians to visit family. Those encounters crystalliz
When Fine Dumas’s notorious transvestite Boudoir is shut down after Expo 67, Celine is condemned to go back to working as a waitress at Le Select, attending to the frustrated appetites and exquisite p
Michel Tremblay’s well-loved and award-winning play presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. The older Albertines warn the younger ones of what is to come??Our
An evening at the opera spills out onto the street and into an odyssey through Montreal by night. The narrator, both innocent and cynical, rushes headlong down what appears to be the road to ruin?or p
Germaine Lauzon has won a million trading stamps from a department store. Her head swimming with dreams of refurbishing and redecorating her working-class home from top to bottom with catalogue select
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is Tremblay’s homage to his mother, who nurtured his imagination, his reclusive reading habits and his love for the theatre and the arts, yet who did not live to w
March, 1963. Winter has launched its final assault on Montreal. The Fat Woman, Therese, Edouard, Pierrette, Marcel, all the star-crossed characters of Tremblay’s Chronicles of Plateau Mont-Royal are h
This classic play has been translated before, but only into a pallid approximation of the original joual. Scots, however, is an energetic and earthy vernacular with a distinctive sound system equal t
In Michel Tremblay’s classic play about identity in crisis, Claude leaves the conformity of small-town Quebec to realize a new life and a new persona among the drag queens and prostitutes of Mon
From AIDS to yellow fever, this family album of 233 diagrams of viruses (selected from the English, French, and German literature) offers a unique pictorial portrayal of their life cycles. In this se
Presents a thought-provoking examination of the links between homosexuality and suicide among North American males ages fourteen to twenty-five, arguing that there is a definitive link between the soc
In one of his most daring theatrical achievements, Michel Tremblay presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. The older Albertines warn the younger ones of what i
