by Michel Tremblay
English translation by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco
Directed by Esther Jun
This production contains coarse language, actions of elder abuse, discussion of abortion and rape and smoking of e-cigarettes. It also makes use of haze effects.
“a lively, crowd-pleasing production” – The Globe and Mail
“universal and timeless” – Toronto Star
A KITCHEN TABLE CONFIDENTIAL
After 32 years, Michel Tremblay's masterpiece, which revolutionized Québécois theatre and is renowned the world over, returns to Stratford on the Festival Stage. Written in 1965, Les Belles-Soeurs portrays 15 Québécois women expressing their anger, desperation and frustration loudly, rudely and audaciously. Germaine Lauzon has won a million stamps in a contest. She invites her family and neighbours into her kitchen to help paste them into booklets. Fighting for any power in their suffocating lives, the women yell, backstab, dream and steal in grand theatrical style.
Setting: Montreal, 1965.
House Program: Les Belles-Soeurs
Runtime: Two hours and 22 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission*
*Please note that all run times are approximate.
Production Co-Sponsor:
Production support is generously provided by Sylvia D. Chrominska, by Cathy & Paul Cotton, by Jane Fryman Laird, by Dr. Robert J. & Roberta Sokol and by Dr. John H. Whiteside.
Support for the 2023 season of the Festival Theatre is generously provided by Daniel Bernstein & Claire Foerster.
Photo credits: From left – Lucy Peacock, Allison Edwards-Crewe and Seana McKenna. Photo by Ted Belton.
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