Les Belles Soeurs

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About the Show
Two-act play written in 1965 by Michel Tremblay. The impact of this work is still being argued in Quebec today, but suffice it to say that it changed much of what was believed to be Quebec culture; language, the form of theatre, which plays should be done at which theatres, the displacing of the Old Guard. (Indeed, when it was proposed for the Dominion Drama Festival it was turned down by the jury.) It was Tremblay's first professionally produced (and now his most-produced and most often translated) work. It set off a storm of controversy, firstly because of the language (a particularly raucous - some say vulgar - joual ), and then because it dared to portray working class women doing working class things. Also, it went after men. None of this sounds particularly special today, but in 1968, theatre in Quebec was just releasing itself from religious and morality plays.

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