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Books by Michel Marc Bouchard
Lilies
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Michel Marc Bouchard
Michel
Marc Bouchard is
a playwright and actor. After graduating from Université d’Ottawa
in theatre studies, he worked in various Franco-Ontarian theatres as
dramaturge and actor. His first play, Les Porteurs d’eau, was
staged by the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury in 1981, followed
by La Contre-Nature de Chrysippe Tanguay, écologiste (1983),
which attracted much positive attention from critics. It portrays a
homosexual couple in confrontation with society’s traditional norms
as they seek to adopt a child.
Bouchard’s greatest success
to date came with Les Feluettes (1987), translated as Lilies
(1988) and now considered one of the major works of modern Canadian
theatre (it won both the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Chalmers Award
for Best Play in 1991). It has played with great success at the National
Arts Centre in Ottawa, in Montréal, Toronto and elsewhere in Canada;
in France, Italy and Holland; in Mexico and Uruguay; and it has been
translated into several languages. An English-language film version
was completed in 1996.
Bouchard is the author of more
than 20 plays, most of which have been produced professionally. Most
notable are La Poupée de Pélopia (1984), Les Muses orphelines
(1988), and the political allegory Le Voyage du Couronnement
(1995).
Bouchard was artistic director
of Ottawa’s Trillium Theatre from 1989 to 1991 and is currently vice-president
of Montréal’s prestigious Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui.
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