Montreal
Alan M. Tigay
1993
The theater troupe at the Saidye Bronfman Centre decided to practice a bit of outreach to the city’s French Canadian majority by staging a play by the Québécois dramatist Michel Tremblay. It wouldn’t have attracted much attention for Montreal’s leading Jewish cultural institution to produce Tremblay in English and, after all, French Canadians…
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