LES BELLES-SOEURS

A KITCHEN TABLE CONFIDENTIAL

After 32 years, Michel Tremblay's masterpiece, which revolutionized Québécois theatre and is renowned the world over, returns to Stratford on the Festival Stage. Written in 1965, Les Belles-Soeurs portrays 15 Québécois women expressing their anger, desperation and frustration loudly, rudely and audaciously. Germaine Lauzon has won a million stamps in a contest. She invites her family and neighbours into her kitchen to help paste them into booklets. Fighting for any power in their suffocating lives, the women yell, backstab, dream and steal in grand theatrical style.

Produced by the Stratford Festival at the Festival Theatre.

Creative Credits

PLAY BY MICHÉL TREMBLAY
ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY JOHN VAN BUREK AND BILL GLASSCO
DIRECTED BY ESTHER JUN
ASSISTANT DIRECTED BY TREVOR BARRETTE
MOVEMENT DIRECTION BY ALYSSA MARTIN
SUPERVISING FIGHT DIRECTION BY GEOFF SCOVELL
SCRIPT CONSULTING BY LYDIE DUBUISSON
PERFORMED BY LUCY PEACOCK, SEANA MCKENNA, BOLA AIYEOLA, JOELLA CRICHTON, DIANA LEBLANC, JANE LUK, IRENE POOLE, SHANNON TAYLOR, JENNIFER VILLAVERDE, AKOSUA AMO ADEM, DEJAH DIXON-GREEN, ALLISON EDWARDS-CREW, IJEOMA EMESOWUM, MARISSA ORJALO, JAMILLAH ROSS, TARA SKY, LIZA HUGET, JAMEELA MCNEIL, GLYNNIS RANNEY, and ANTONETTE RUDDER.
SOUND DESIGN & MUSIC BY MADDIE BAUTISTA
LIGHTING DESIGN BY LOUISE GUINAND
COSTUME DESIGN BY MICHELLE BOHN
SET DESIGN BY JOANNA YU
ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGN BY ADAM CAMPBELL
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGN BY SRUTHI SURESAN
ASSISTANT SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY REBECCA CHAIKIN
STAGE MANAGED BY SUZANNE MCARTHUR, CAITLIN MEARS (ASM), BRUNO GONSALVES (ASM), and TIFFANY FRASER (ASM)
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID HOU

A full programme with more credits can be found here.

Photography by David Hou.