Dear Chekhov
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A table set outside in beautiful fall weather. A turkey roasting in the oven. Everything seems set for a festive family dinner - except that the playwright wants to rewrite his play. In Dear Chekhov, renowned playwright Michel Tremblay (re)examines an old unfinished script, a tribute to the legendary author of The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull. Will the play stand up in performance? The question obsesses the narrator, Tremblay's alter ego Jean-Marc. And then there is Benoît, the author-brother, who settles his accounts with a detestable young critic, the current flame of their sister. This Great Actress has given her career a boost by working with a trendy millennial director, trashing Chekhov - and their mother's memory in the process. Dear Chekhov presents Michel Tremblay in total control of his art, holding a mirror up to the theatre in an irresistible "Chekhovian reflection of what we are."
Cast of 3 women and 5 men
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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 thirty plays, thirty-one novels, eight collections of autobiographical stories, a collection of tales, seven screenplays, forty-seven trans¬lations and adaptations of works by foreign writers, ten plays and fifteen stories printed in diverse publications, an opera libretto, a song cycle, a Symphonic Christmas Tale, and two musicals. His plays have been published and translated into forty-three languages and have garnered critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and more than fifty countries around the world.