Two plays from one of Quebec’s most beloved playwrights.Jay returns to his northern Ontario hometown, seeking reconciliation with a father, a family, and a life he left seven years ago. The world he returns to is one of anger and violence, a world raw with hurt, and love. Winner of the 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award, Jean Marc Dalpé’s Le Chien is a modern tragedy set in the desolation and beauty of the North about the fine line between love and hate, and the impossibility of burying the past.Despite their dreams of wealth, fame, and success, Bernie and his friends are going nowhere fast. When a horse-racing scheme presents itself, the group decides to gamble their meagre savings, intertwining their lives with the fortunes of a horse. Lucky Lady is an exhilarating comedy, published here for the first time in English.

Lucky Lady and Le Chien

Literature & Fiction

Dalpé, Jean Marc

Dramas & Plays

Playwrights Canada Press

Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show is a flamboyant epic, constructed as a series of tableaux, about the struggles of the Métis in the Canadian West. It is a multilayered and entertaining saga with a rodeo vibe, loosely based on Buffalo Bill’s legendary outdoor travelling show. In 1885, following the hanging of his friend Louis Riel, bison hunter Gabriel Dumont fled to the United States. There he was recruited by the legendary Buffalo Bill, founder of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, a gigantic outdoor travelling show that re-enacted life in the American West. It made a huge impression on Dumont, and he dreamed of putting together a similar show to tell the story of the struggle of Canada’s Métis to reclaim their rights.\nThe creative team behind Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show – including ten authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, French- and English-speaking men and women – brings Dumont’s dream to life in a captivating, joyously anachronistic saga. The theatrical version of Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show presented by the National Arts Centre was one of a number of exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter initiative. (Adapted from nac-cna.ca/en/wildwestshow.

Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show

Nolan, Yvette

Robinson, Mansel

Martin, Alexis

Williams, Kenneth T.

Granger, David

Menard, Andrea

Lussier, Laura

Poulin-Denis, Gilles

Prudat, Paula-Jean

Talonbooks

Un soir de juillet. Un soleil fou ne veut pas se coucher dans le ciel immense du Nord. Une maison mobile au bout d’un chemin de terre. Un chien fou s’enrage. Jay revient après sept ans de « trips de fou aux États, dans l'Ouest » … ailleurs. Le fils errant retourne chez son père et l’accule au pied du mur qu'il a dressé entre eux. Pour l’amour de sa mère, de sa sœur et de soi, il faut en finir. - « T'es encore vivant, toé ? » Prise de parole présente ici la troisième édition de la première pièce solo de Jean Marc Dalpé qui lui a valu son premier prix du Gouverneur Général en 1988.

Le chien (French Edition)

PRISE DE PAROLE

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