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Les Belles-soeurs
Augustana performs a Canadian play, set in Quebec in the 1960s Murray Green, Staff Reporter
Sunday March 12, 2006 Camrose Canadian — It is a Canadian classic. The Augustana Campus, University of Alberta’s department of fine arts will be performing Les Belles-soeurs at the theatre centre March 16 to 19 and again March 22 to 25 with a 7:30 p.m. curtain opening.
“We have 15 students in the play that is set in Montreal in 1965 (it first appeared in 1968). A working class woman wins a million supermarket trading stamps which can be traded in for anything from furniture to fridges,” said director Kevin Sutley.
Sisters
“The play starts with two people and it quickly expands as more people come on stage. The entire cast is on the stage for almost the whole play and everyone has a major role to play.”
Les Belles-soeurs, meaning sisters-in-law, has family members fighting over what winner Germaine Lauzon should buy.
They all have their opinion and even want to put in a word for themselves to receive some benefit the big win.
Lauzon makes the mistake of inviting all of the women in the neighbourhood to help her paste the stamps into books in order to redeem them. They begin to discuss their own tedious lives but then things take a turn for the worse.
Experience
“Having 15 people in the play allows us to have more people gain experience. It gives everyone a chance to have a good part.
“We have a lot of good first year students so I decided to try it. It also gives us a chance to showcase a good Canadian play.”
This is a drama that can be enjoyed by the entire family.
History
“This is set in an important time in history in Quebec. The working class were held back by the Conservative government and the wealthy English.
“People began to talk of separation and it was before the 1972 FLQ killings. It is a comedy, but it is serious as well.”
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