Michel Marc Bouchard

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Michel Marc Bouchard (born February 2, 1958 in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie ) is a Canadian playwright .

Bouchard studied theater studies at the University of Ottawa and then worked as a dramaturge at various French-speaking theaters in Ontario . He made his debut as a writer with the play Les Porteurs d'eau , which premiered in 1981 at the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury .

His most successful play was Les Feluettes (in English translation under the title Lilies ) from 1987, which is considered an important work of modern Canadian theater and was awarded the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Chalmers Award for Best Play in 1991. It was performed with great success at the National Arts Center in Ottawa, France, Italy, Holland, Mexico and Uruguay and was made into a film in 1998. In total, Bouchard published more than 20 plays.

From 1989 to 1991 he was artistic director of the Trillium Theater in Ottawa, after which he became vice-president of the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui in Montreal.

His piece Tom à la ferme won the Lambda Literary Award in 2014 in the LGBT Drama category.

Works

  • Mortadelle , 1977-79
  • Angélus , 1977-79
  • Dans les bras de Morphée Tanguay , 1977-79
  • La Contre-Nature de Chrysippe Tanguay, écologiste , 1980 (premiere 1983)
  • Les Porteurs d'eau , 1982
  • La Poupée de Pélopia , 1985
  • Les Feluettes ou la répétition d'un drame romantique 1987 (English Lilies; Spanish Los Endebles; award-winning, made into a film)
  • Les Muses orphelines . 1988
    • The Orphaned Muses. Author agency, 1996. Again: Übers. Frank Heibert , The abandoned muses, in America writing differently. Literature from Québec. Ed. Lothar Baier , Pierre Filion. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2000, pp. 216–222
  • Soirée bénéfice pour ceux qui ne seront pas là en l'an 2000! 1990
  • Les grandes chaleurs. (Heat Waves) Comedy, 1991
  • L'Histoire de l'oie. (The Tale of Teeka) 1991 (performances also in Japan, Australia, Mexico, Germany)
  • Les Papillons de nuit. (Night Butterflies) Comedy, 1992
  • Le Désir , comedy, 1995
  • Le Voyage du couronnement. (The Coronation Voyage) 1995
  • Pierre et Marie ... et le demon , Comedy, 1997
  • Le Chemin des passes dangereuses , 1998
  • Sous les regard des mouches , 2000
  • Le Peintre des madones (The Madonna Painter), 2002
  • Les Manuscrits du déluge (Written on water), 2003
  • Des Yeux de verre (Something In Their Eyes), 2007
  • Les Aventures d'un Flo! 2007
  • Tom à la ferme , 2010, filmed in 2014

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bouchard, Michel Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Coeur-de-Marie