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The Real World?
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco
A play within a play. A young playwright draws on his family as the raw material for his first work. Cast of four women and three men.
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A play within a play. A young playwright draws on his family as the raw material for his first work. Cast of four women and three men.
Michel Tremblay
A major figure in Québec literature, Michel Tremblay has built an impressive body of work as a playwright, novelist, translator, and screenwriter. To date Tremblay’s complete works include twenty-nine plays, thirty-one novels, six collections of autobiographical stories, a collection of tales, seven screenplays, forty-six translations and adaptations of works by foreign writers, nine plays and twelve stories printed in diverse publications, an opera libretto, a song cycle, a Symphonic Christmas Tale, and two musicals. His work has won numerous awards and accolades; his plays have been published and translated into forty languages and have garnered critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and more than fifty countries around the world.
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- Dimensions 96 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 x 6 mm
- Published January 1, 1988
- Publisher Talonbooks
- Category Drama
- Keywords Canadian
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