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Lemeac, Collection Théâtre canadien, 29 [Published Date: 1973]. Paperback, 214 pp. Text in French. De l’autre côté du mur suivi de cinq pièces courtes. Also includes: Rendez-vous du lendemain, Le visiteur, L'aiguillage, Le père idéal, Les frères ennemis.
In good condition. Illustrated paper covers have a 1/2" tear to the fore-edge of the back cover and light bumping and creasing to edges and corners of covers. Moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to cover as well with a dark stain on the top edge of the front cover and a bit of the top edge of the text block. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes 13 pages of black and white photo reproductions from some of the productions. Marcel Dubé, arguably one of the province's most prolific and influential writers, was second in a short line of playwrights, after Gratien Gélinas and before Michel Tremblay, who contributed to the birth of a national theatre commenting on the struggles of working-class Quebeckers.His vast collection of plays, novels and television dramas were set from the 1950s to the end of the Quiet Revolution in 1970, and captured the dramatic changes the writer witnessed in society around him – secularization, the creation of a welfare state and the division of Quebec into federalist and separatist factions.Modest by nature, he was, by his own admission, "a simple playwright," who used sparse but powerful language to make a living, as meagre as it was. Embarrassed by the accolades heaped on him, he was more comfortable hanging around with the stage lighting and sound crews than politicians, actors and the elite.