Word: tremblaye
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...meeting, Turner touched the same base with French Vice President Lise St.-Martin who gamely rallied behind her. At least, she declared, he is less cold aloof than his predecessor, Pierre Elliott "Now we're faced with a politician a lot more, uh, I hesitate to say hot," Tremblay. "Let's say he has warmth...
...Tremblay goes off the track when he for-sakes a deeper exploration of his characters for emphasizing Serge as a magnet for his sisters' frustrated sexual desires. Adult life has been unpleasant to them; and they hope to recover the imagined innocence of childhood by becoming their baby brother's keeper. The towering irony is that Serge's own childhood, shaped by his sister's loving ministrations, precluded his ever being a paragon of innocent morality: we find out that his lover. Nicole (played by Maura Barry), is actually his fourth sister...
Because the entire family knew about this backstairs relationship, the suspenseful buildup of innuendoes about Serge's unnatural affection for Nicole is a theatrical trick of the worst kind, a bombshell that has no effect on the characters. We could forgive Tremblay these histrionics if he made the moment of our discovery a fulcrum, and swung the family into revealing psychological or moral perceptions. But his probing of Serge's childhood is just pablum from the Freudian stockpot. "We brought you up like a little girl," Lucienne tells Serge, and then berates him for not being gay and thereby escaping...
...TREMBLAY WOULD HAVE US believe that Serge can be freed from his own past if he becomes self-sufficient, but this means ignoring the plans of others. Tremblay doesn't quite follow through to the plot's implication--that for Serge freedom is incompatible with his need to communicate with and be loved by Nicole and Gabriel. Prolonged silence, the actor's anathema, seems the only escape from Tremblay's determinism. If his characters can't escape their child-hoods and have no outside arbiters to appeal to why should they talk about it at all? Why even say "Bonjour...
Bonjour, La, Bonjour opened in a squash court under Lowell's A Entry, but was moved to-I Entry after Cambridge officials ruled the location a fire hazard. They needn't have worried. Even though Wingrove kindles sufficient sparks in his actors. Tremblay's wintry script ensures that if the smoke detractors do sound in Lowell's asbestos-lined corridors, it will be just another false alarm...