About the Play:

Remember Me (English-language version of Les anciennes odeurs) is a full-length drama by Michel Tremblay. A successful television actor Luc drops in on his former lover Jean Marc, a college French teacher, to ask him if he will visit Luc's dying father. The two men finally say everything that went unsaid during their relationship, including Luc's thirst for any port in a storm and Jean Marc's forbidden lust for his students. The play swings from hysteria to moments of tenderness as two desperate lives are laid bare.

Remember Me is an intimate dialogue between former lovers who have both established their professional careers but are still searching for artistic and emotional satisfaction. It has been some time since Luc, a 32-year-old actor and Jean-Marc, a 38-year-old French professor, have seen each other, but the wounds from their 7-year love affair are only partially healed. Each of them has current worries as well: Jean-Marc, still living in the house he bought with Luc, but now with current partner Paul (scathingly referred to as 'Natasha' by his ex), is tired of the endless procession of insensitive and seductive students; he has also realized that he will never be the great novelist he had hoped to become. He feels, in a word, mediocre. Luc, after years as an obscure stage actor, has found popular success playing "a nut case with a lisp" on a TV sitcom, but along with fame has come an unexpected and unwelcome loss of privacy and a struggle for self-respect. To make matters worse, Luc's father is dying. During this evening at Jean-Marc's house, the two men dredge up the good and the bad memories; they confront each other about past injustices; they examine each other's grey hairs; finally, they confess their fears and disillusionments and they comfort each other.

Remember Me had its English-language premiere in 1984 at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg. Since then the play has been successfully staged at several professional theatres across Canada and has been performed in college and fringe theatre productions.

Cast: 2 male

"[Tremblay] has entered a new phase of his dramatic art." — Canadian Literature

About the Playwright:

Michel Tremblay has been one of Québec's most prominent playwrights since the end of the 1960s. One of the most produced and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian theatre, he has received countless prestigious honours and accolades. His dramatic, literary and autobiographical works, originally written in French, have long enjoyed remarkable international popularity and translations of his plays have received huge success worldwide.