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Michel Tremblay’s award-winning play places Albertine, a Québécois woman living a luckless life, in Montreal's Plateau neighbourhood. Tremblay stages five Albertine’s at once, from age 30 to 70, for each decade of her life. Led by their sister Madeleine, they try to come to grips with a life filled with abuse, love, regret and happiness.
This new translation by Linda Gaboriau, commissioned for the prestigious Shaw Festival, celebrates this classic Canadian drama that captured international attention.
“The story of a life, told by Tremblay with immense compassion.”
– Toronto Sun
“A remarkable play… The conception is brilliant.”
– New Statesmen
Albertine in Five Times
by Michel Tremblay
Translation by Linda Gaboriau
Directed by William Wong and Briar Knowles
Featuring: Eilish Waller, Kristy Benz, Sarah Doyle, Julianne Dransfield and Julia Porter
September 10-12, 17-19, 2015
8:00pm
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
79 St. George Street *Wheelchair Accessible
RSVP Tickets: fiptix@gmail.com, $10 Student / $15 General
Talkbacks: Saturday nights following the performance.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born to a working-class family in Montreal, the works of novelist and playwright Michel Tremblay have been translated into over 40 languages. His works have received acclaim in Canada and around the world, for their complex portrayals of women and family. During his career he has received more than fifty awards, including the Governor's General Award for the Performing Arts in 1999 for Lifetime Achievement.
Linda Gaboriau is an award-winning literary translator based in Montreal. Her translations of plays by Quebec’s most prominent playwrights have been produced across Canada and abroad. Gaboriau has twice won the Governor General’s Award for Translation: in 1996, for Daniel Danis’s Stone and Ashes, and in 2010, for Wajdi Mouawad’s Forests.
Photo Matt Folliott. ©2012 Shauna Jean Doherty.
2015-08-20
Toronto: Freelance Intern Productions presents "Albertine in Five Times" September 10-19