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An Anglophone is Coming to Dinner

by George Rideout

“I love Shakespeare, I love Chekhov, I love Michel Tremblay…” With a backdrop of the Lone Star and the Fleur-de-Lys flags, Jim Bob Baker introduces himself and his troupe, The Lubbock Little Theatre, who have come all the way from Texas to perform for a Canadian audience. The play, Un Anglophone Vient Souper, written by a little-known Québec playwright, has been translated into English by Jim Bob himself, except for “the swearin'” which he decided sounded better in the original French. Colliding worlds of culture and language are served up Texas style in this social satire of a Québecois family playing host to a bewildered, Ontario-born English professor.

“Only an expatriate Texan like Rideout can walk in where angels fear to tread… everything moves like clockwork in this hilarious satire on post-referendum entente.
—Pat Donnelly, The Montreal Gazette

“Funny, thought provoking, and multi-layered…”
—Diahann Nadeau, The Sherbrooke Record

“…full of clever mispronunciations, word play, and digs at Quebec society… [Anglophone] grabbed the audience and kept them laughing all the way through.”
—Wendy Denman, The Stanstead Journal

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