{"product_id":"9780889224667","title":"Twelve Opening Acts","description":"Alongside his dozens of fascinating and award-winning plays, and in addition to this great Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal series of six epic novels, his translations, adaptations, librettos, and acute portrayals of human emotions in a state of both crisis and redemption, Michel Tremblay has left his readers with three magical keys to the secrets of his great literary achievements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first of these, \u003ci\u003eBambi and Me\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eLes Vues animés\u003c\/i\u003e, Leméac, 1990], is a memoir of the movies that shaped his imagination as a child-those he watched in fascination and spent hours deconstructing with his mother, and those he watched on his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second, \u003ci\u003eTwelve Opening Acts\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003eDouze Coups de Théâtre\u003c\/i\u003e, Leméac, 1992], is an account of Tremblay’s discovery of the theatre as an adolescent: from his first breathtaking recognition of how the imagination is actually a public construct, while watching a performance of \u003ci\u003eBabar the Elephant\u003c\/i\u003e at the age of six; to his winning of the CBC drama competition with his first play, \u003ci\u003eLe Train\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween these parenthetical stories, Michel Tremblay offers the reader an entrance into his discovery of the theatricality of life itself-the personal dramas of his homosexuality, the death of his mother, the increasingly frail withdrawing of his father, even the completely unintentional, almost apolitical creation of his nationalist awareness-are recounted in narratives at once devoid of judgment, but at the same time ennobled with a complexity and intensity of passion operatic in its scope and merciless in its sweep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the most ruthless and unsparing, yet tender and evocative insight Tremblay has ever offered into the creation of his literary genius.","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022800011504,"sku":"9780889224667","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889224667_p0.jpg?v=1763855416","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889224667","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}