Albertine in Five Times

by Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay's well-loved and award-winning play presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. The older Albertines warn the younger ones of what is to come--"Our fate depends on you," Albertine at 70 says to Albertine at 30. Together, these five Albertines provide a moving portrait of the extraordinary life of an "ordinary" woman.

This new, updated translation by Linda Gaboriau, commissioned for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088922627X
• ISBN13: 9780889226272
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

What a good play should be

Most inventively, Tremblay sets the same character, Albertine, at five distinc periods of her life. Thus, five actresses will each play Albertine at a certain age and react with one another. This idea alone is worth the price, but has genuine directions takes place and crafted acting moves-in, the hidden textual pearls of wisdom will remind you that the ones who think only Shakespear had genius are trully insignificant snobs. (and I taught they were all guillotined in 1789. Best of all, the text and ideas brought forward are as universal as can be. Glenn St-Yves