| Albertine, en cinq temps Academic Tour 2006-2007 |
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In Michel Tremblay’s Albertine, en cinq temps, the title role is played by five different performers, each one portraying the same woman at particular ages over five decades. Chandelle's adaptation of Albertine presents Tremblay’s text with a single actress to embody the distinct individuality of one woman at five different moments in her life, each one colored by a particular life-changing, usually tragic, event. Audiences bear witness to the evolution of one character over five decades as Albertine confronts and enters into dialogue with snapshots of herself at various stages of life. She is simultaneously one and five persons, distinctly different, yet overarchingly the same... |
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Michel Tremblay – author, playwright -– was born in 1942 in Plateau Mont Royal, a working-class neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec. In high school, at the ripe age of 17, he began writing poems, plays and novels and fantasy stories. He eventually published a group of fantasy stories under the title Contes pour buveurs attardés. At 19, Tremblay studied at the Institut des arts graphiques where he trained to be a linotypist, a trade he invested in to support himself from 1963 to 1966. Even as he worked, he continued to write. In 1964, he submitted a play, Le train, to Radio-Canada's competition for young authors. It won the jury's first prize and a Canada Council grant. In 1967, André Brassard staged a selection of Tremblay’s fantasy stories from [italics] Contes pour buveurs attardés [end italics] in a theatrical production that brought him greater public notoriety. In 1968, Les Belles Soeurs , one of Tremblay’s best-known plays, made its debut at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert in Quebec. In 1973, Les Belles Soeurs earned the prize for the best foreign play in Paris. Since the 1970s, Tremblay has continued to write film scripts, plays, novels and stories. He has received numerous awards, and his works have been performed abroad and published in at least 25 languages. Tremblay is known as a daring and original writer in Quebec literature, an author who shook the establishment in the 1970s because he wrote in "joual," an otherwise spoken dialect particular to the working-class districts of Quebec. He is also appreciated for the compassionate and humorous manner in which he stages the struggles of working-class men and women of Montreal. Albertine, en cinq temps(1984) is just one of those plays. |
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