{"product_id":"les-belles-soeurs-paperback","title":"Les Belles Soeurs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichel Tremblay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Van Burek\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eBill Glassco\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermaine 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 selections ranging from new kitchen appliances to \"real Chinese paintings on velvet,\" she invites fourteen of her friends and relatives in the neighbourhood over to help her paste the stamps into booklets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaucous, reckless and rude, the women shamelessly share their most secret hopes and fears, complain stridently about their friends and relatives, fantasize wistfully about escaping the misogynist drudgery of their lives and surreptitiously tuck most of the stamps into their purses and clothing, self-righteously appropriating what they consider to be Germaine's \"illegitimate\" good fortune. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile earlier attempts had been made to stage the realities of Québécois life using colloquial language and a realist backdrop of working-class Montréal, these populist hits were considered rustic and anomalous, while \"real\" (Parisian) French continued to dominate theatre and \"high culture\" until the end of the 1950s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Québec searched for a new socio-political identity and a language that could articulate its rapidly emerging post-colonial reality throughout the \"quiet revolution,\" Michel Tremblay struggled to find an authentic Québécois voice. Written in 1965, it took three years for him get a first production of \u003ci\u003eLes Belles Soeurs\u003c\/i\u003e in 1968. Premiering at the Théâtre du Rideau-Vert in the same year that René Lévesque founded the nationalist Parti Québécois, this first of what was to become more than a dozen plays in Tremblay's Cycle of \u003ci\u003eLes Belles Soeurs\u003c\/i\u003e became an overnight success. In one fell stroke, Joual, the distinctive Québec vernacular that had evolved over centuries since the end of French colonial rule had been legitimized, and Michel Tremblay, much like Chaucer in English and Dante in Italian, had become \"the father of the Québécois language.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Tremblay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most produced and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian theatre, Michel Tremblay has received countless prestigious honours and accolades. His dramatic, literary and autobiographical works have long enjoyed remarkable international popularity, including translations of his plays that have achieved huge success in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAwards and Recognition*\u003cbr\u003ePrix du Grand (2009) \u003ci\u003eLa Traversée de la ville\u003c\/i\u003e (Leméac Editeur Inc.)\u003cbr\u003eBlue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix (2006)\u003cbr\u003eGlobe and Mail Top 100 Books (2003) \u003ci\u003eBirth of a Bookworm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2000) \u003ci\u003eFor the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChalmers Awards (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1989, 2000)\u003cbr\u003eGovernor General's Performing Arts Award (1999)\u003cbr\u003eMolson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1994)\u003cbr\u003eLouis-Hémon Prize (1994)\u003cbr\u003eMontreal Book Fair Grand Public Prize (1994)\u003cbr\u003eBanff Centre National Award (1992)\u003cbr\u003eOfficer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1991)\u003cbr\u003eChevalier of the Order of Quebec (1990)\u003cbr\u003eSan Francisco Lesbian and Gay Festival Long-Standing Public Service Award (1989)\u003cbr\u003eCBC Anik Prize (1988)\u003cbr\u003eAthanase-David Lifetime Achievement Prize (1988)\u003cbr\u003eQuebec-Paris Prize (1985)\u003cbr\u003eChevalier of Arts and Letters of France (1984). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Van Burek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Van Burek has been a practising theatre artist for over twenty years, in both French and English, throughout Canada. He has also worked in the fields of opera, film and television. He is also one of Canada's leading translators for theatre, most notably of Michel Tremblay's plays, including Les Belles-Soeurs (Talonbooks). Mr. Van Burek has received several awards and citations for his work, including the Toronto Drama Bench Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Canadian Theatre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Glassco\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Quebec, William Grant (\"Bill\") Glassco was a Canadian theatre director, producer and founder of Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. He then became the artistic director of the CentreStage Theatre Company which merged, in 1988, with the Toronto Free Theatre to become CanStage. In 1982, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702194049087,"sku":"9780889223028","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d29d0c379807aa4c11483e5379021855.webp?v=1765023506","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/les-belles-soeurs-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}