Paperback / softback
ISBN:
9780889223493
Pages: 80
Pub. Date:
January 1 1994
Dimensions: 8.25" x 5.25" x 0.25"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Non-Fiction / FAM041000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings
This second revised edition of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, which played at the 1990 Stratford Festival, is John Van Burek and Bill Glassco’s new translation of Michel Tremblay’s original French text.
“Brilliantly insightful, uncompromising drama.”
— Detroit News
“One of Tremblay’s infinitely hot and dense family dramas ...”
— Globe & Mail
“one of Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay’s greatest works, the Long Day’s Journey into Night of his oeuvre”
– Globe and Mail
“…its themes – Catholicism, sexuality, domestic abuse, and the legacy of a tragic death – are universal … Tremblay is produced around the world. His people exist in every society, not just Montreal’s Main.”
– NOW Toronto
By Michel Tremblay
One of the most produced and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian theatre, Michel Tremblay has received countless prestigious honours and accolades. His dramatic, literary and autobiographical works have long enjoyed remarkable international popularity, including translations of his plays that have achieved huge success in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.
Awards and Recognition*
Prix du Grand (2009) La Traversée de la ville (Leméac Editeur Inc.)
Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix (2006)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Books (2003) Birth of a Bookworm
Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2000) For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
Chalmers Awards (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1989, 2000)
Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (1999)
Molson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1994)
Louis-Hémon Prize (1994)
Montreal Book Fair Grand Public Prize (1994)
Banff Centre National Award (1992)
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1991)
Chevalier of the Order of Quebec (1990)
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Festival Long-Standing Public Service Award (1989)
CBC Anik Prize (1988)
Athanase-David Lifetime Achievement Prize (1988)
Quebec-Paris Prize (1985)
Chevalier of Arts and Letters of France (1984).
