Paperback / softback
ISBN:
9780889222137
Pages: 136
Pub. Date:
January 1 1983
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Drama / SOC010000
One night in the Promised Land of the North of the Americas, at the centre of a fabulous vortex, four women—Laure Conan, Germaine Guèvremont, Gabrielle Roy and Anne Hèbert—meet, and perform six tableaux. Onstage, the women talk and gallop, they sit and rock; they descend from the heavens like angels, they menstruate, they sing; they bake bread, they eat, they say Mass; they trade secrets, recite poetry, share their hopes and fears, their dreams and private terrors; they look into history, decide to collaborate, they write; they become hens, they support and give birth to each other—and to all women everywhere. Saga of the Wet Hens is Jovette Marchessault’s first full-length play and a major poetic dramatic literary work.
“Potent feminist literature.”
—Quill & Quire
“[Marchessault’s] fiction is lyrical and heartfelt, her drama literary, allusive and absolutely original.”
—Books in Canada