An Anglophone is Coming to Dinner

The play, Un Anglophone Vient Souper, written by a little-known Quebec playwright, has been translated into English by Jim Bob himself, except for “the swearin’” which he decided sounded better in the original French. Colliding worlds of culture and language are served up Texas style in this social satire of a Québécois family playing host to a bewildered, Ontario-born English professor.

AUTHOR

George Rideout

George Rideout was raised in Texas and moved to Canada in his teens. He now teaches theatre at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec, where the annual New Plays Festival presents one-act plays written in his playwriting class. His own work as a playwright is more widely celebrated, winning numerous regional and national playwriting awards. His plays often reflect on cross-cultural relationships, particularly as they exist in times of great social change. They include Texas Boy (which has had more than thirty different productions), The Longstreth Line, Walking on the Moon, 689 Spadina Ave., The Austin Texas Twist Championship, The Tall Girl_, and An Anglophone Is Coming to Dinner.

Reviews

“Funny, though provoking, and multi layered…”
– Diahann Nadeau

Only an expatriate Texan like Rideout can walk in where angels fear to tread… everything moves like clockwork in this hilarious satire on post-referendum entente. —Pat Donnelly, The Montreal Gazette

“Funny, thought provoking, and multi-layered…” —Diahann Nadeau, The Sherbrooke Record

“…full of clever mispronunciations, word play, and digs at Quebec society… [Anglophone] grabbed the audience and kept them laughing all the way through.” —Wendy Denman, The Stanstead Journal