Michel Tremblay Summary

Michel Tremblay is the first Canadian playwright to have won international recognition. His plays have been translated into many languages and performed successfully on three continents. Starting from... Read more

Critical Essay by Martin Gottfried Though ["Hosanna"] goes over homosexual materials with which we are twice too familiar, and while it tells more than it shows, the play creates a fully... Read more

Critical Essay by 2. the Main: Nightlife, Prostitution, Homosexuality This is a world of false glitter and real pathos: the world of La Duchesse de Langeais, of Hosanna, of Berthe, Carlotta and Gloria... Read more

Critical Essay by Elaine R. Hopkins Les Anciennes Odeurs, is a play about feelings, more specifically about the tenderness that remains in a relationship after the passion of love has died. (p. 796) L... Read more

Critical Essay by Martin Knelman The title character of Saint Carmen of the Main is a woman, and not a writer but a popular singer in a sleazy nightclub in the East End of Montréal. But when Ca... Read more

Critical Essay by John Ripley In slightly more than a decade of sustained productivity, Michel Tremblay created no less than eleven plays set in the working-class environment of east-end Montreal. Wit... Read more

Critical Essay by Douglas Hill The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant … lives up to the promise of its marvellously evocative cover—a hand-tinted photograph, from a family album, of the aut... Read more

Critical Essay by Boyd Neil Even in translation, it is obvious that [Tremblay] is a formidable wordsmith. His dialogues are spare and forceful. Words are used not just to explain character but to expr... Read more

In the following essay, McQuaid explains Tremblay's success in English Canada by examining the social concerns, "highly" theatrical nature, and indigenous québécois ... Read more

In the favorable review below, Moss summarizes the plot and themes of Thérèse et Pierrette. Shelia Fischman has performed another valuable service for Anglophones in translating Michel T... Read more

In the following review, Paul comments on Tremblay's critique of patriarchy in Albertine in Five Times. The chief difficulty in translating [Albertine in Five Times], originally published in Fr... Read more

Critical Review by Kathy Mezei SOURCE; "Poet's Dilemma," in Canadian Literature, Vol. 135, Winter, 1992, pp. 130-31. In the review below, Mezei faults Tremblay's "cl... Read more