Michael tremblay biography
Michael tremblay biography
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Tremblay, Michel
BORN: 1942, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NATIONALITY: Canadian
GENRE: Drama, fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
Stories for Late Night Drinkers (1966)
Les Belles-soeurs (1968)
Like Death Warmed Over (1970)
Hosanna (1973)
The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant (1978)
Overview
Michel Tremblay is one of the first Canadian playwrights to have won international recognition.
His plays have been translated into many languages and performed successfully on three continents. In Quebec, his work is frequently classified as “theatre of liberation” and given political significance due to his introduction of the Montreal working-class French joual (dialect) as a stage idiom, as well as to his merciless naturalism and the political parables that underlie many of his plays.
Viewed from a
wider perspective, Tremblay's work is impressive particularly because of its memorable characters, sophisticated methods of dramatic composition, and the richness and complexity of its levels