Assorted Candies for the Theatre
- ISBN-10
- 0889225729
- ISBN-13
- 9780889225725
- Category
- Drama / Canadian
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Author
- Michel Tremblay
Description
Assorted Candies for the Theatre is a stage adaptation of Michel Tremblay's fourth book of autobiographical sketches, Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies, offering a rich and colourful cast of characters in this exquisite remembrance of childhood past in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood.
Much more than a mere adaptation of a prose memoir for the stage, in re-crafting his characters from the realm of thought and memory to the present action of the theatre, Tremblay generously reveals how it's done.
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