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Les Canadiens
Les Canadiens
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Author: Rick Salutin, Preface by Ken Dryden Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 186 Pub. Date: 1977 ISBN-10: 0889221227 ISBN-13: 9780889221222
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About the Play:
Les Canadiens is about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor — and a play about hockey using Quebec and Canada as its setting. The book contains a preface by Ken Dryden, former goalie for the Montréal Canadiens, and an introduction on hockey, politics and theatre by Rick Salutin.
The play begins on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when a French-Canadian soldier throws his rifle to his son and it becomes a hockey stick. It ends in the Montréal Forum on the night of November 15, 1976, when Montréal Canadien fans turn a hockey game into an election victory rally for the indépendantiste Parti Québécois.
Les Canadiens was commissioned by and first performed at Centaur Theatre in Montréal in February, 1977. It won the Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Play.
Cast of 7 men.
What people say:
"An examination of the Canadiens has never been mastered so well — even in a town that searches every pore of its sports heroes." — Montréal Gazette
About the Playwright:
Rick Salutin is one of Canada's most experienced authors, a playwright and editor, and columnist for the Globe and Mail. His many plays include 1837, on the movement for independence from the British Empire; and Les Canadiens, about the famed hockey team and its relation to the spirit of Quebec nationalism, which received the Chalmers award for best Canadian play in 1977.
His TV work includes Maria, about union organizing in the textile industry. He has written biography and history, as well as three novels, one of which, A Man of Little Faith, won the Books in Canada best first novel prize. His most recent book is The Womanizer, a novel. |
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