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May 10 Montréal Michel Tremblay's […]

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1973-05-10

Description

May 10 Montréal Michel Tremblay's play Hosanna, about a transvestite and his biker boyfriend, premiered at the Théâtre de Quat'Sous. Hosanna's ambition is to dress up as Elizabeth Taylor in the movie Cleopatra; his illusions are shattered after he attends a party at which everyone has dressed as Cleopatra. Hosanna was published by Editions Lemeac in 1973; an English translation was published in Vancouver by Talonbooks in 1974.

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Théâtre de Quat'SousMontreal

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Elizabeth TaylorMichel Tremblay

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Talonbooks

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CleopatraHosanna

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Roch Turbide, "Hosanna," in Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires du Québec, ed. Maurice Lemire et al., vol. 5 (1970-75) (Montreal: Fides, 1987), pp. 410-14.