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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here are suggestions for a few Québec plays in translation – the last four are in my anthology :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Raoul Granger, <i>Bonneau et la Bellehumeur</i> (bilingual publication)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Laurier Gareau, <i>La trahison </i>(Louis Riel)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Louisette Dussault, <i>Mommy</i> (autobiography)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jovette Marchessault, <i>The Edge of Earth is Too Near, Violette Leduc</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Michèle Magny, <i>Marina, the Blush of Life</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pol Pelletier, <i>Joy</i> (autobiography)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Louise Forsyth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Canadian Theatre Research [mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA] <b>De la part de</b> T. Berto<br><b>Envoyé :</b> 30 octobre 2013 14:13<br><b>À :</b> CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA<br><b>Objet :</b> Looking for Canadian biogrpahical dramas<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Hello Candram:<br><br>Wondering if you could help. I'm trying to put together a reading list of Canadian biographical dramas for a first year course. That is plays that are based on real person(s) from history. <br><br>I have a few but would love to get more. Here's what I've come up with off the top of my head.<br><br>Bill Bishop goes to war - Eric Peterson<br>Walsh - Sharon Pollock<br>It's all true - Jason Sherman<br>His Greatness - Daniel MacIvor<br>The Golden Thug - Edward Roy<br>Cavafy<br>Pasolini/Pelosi<i><br></i>Capote at Yado<i><br></i>In Which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini" title="Pier Paolo Pasolini">Pier Paolo Pasolini</a> Sees His Own Death in the Face of a Boy <br>My Night With Tennessee <br>More Divine<br>The Emotionalists - all by Sky Gilbert<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_Creature:_A_Visitation_from_Gwendolyn_MacEwen&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen (page does not exist)">Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen</a><br>Maggie and Pierre - Linda Griffiths<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Detaining_Mr._Trotsky&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Detaining Mr. Trotsky (page does not exist)">Detaining Mr. Trotsky</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fothergill_%28playwright%29&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Robert Fothergill (playwright) (page does not exist)">Robert Fothergil</a>l<br>The Palace at the End - Judith Thompson<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angelique_%28play%29&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Angelique (play) (page does not exist)">Angelique</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lorena_Lillian_Gale&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Lorena Lillian Gale (page does not exist)">Lorena Lillian Gale</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_plays_%28A-F%29#cite_note-41">[</a><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Dr. T. Berto<br>School of English and Theatre Studies,<br>University of Guelph.<br><a href="mailto:aberto@uoguelph.ca">aberto@uoguelph.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>