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DEEP IN THE BOWELS of Lowell House, in a cramped room riddled with steam pipes and sighing ventilator shafts. David Win-grove has revived Michel Tremblay's Bonjour, La. Bonjour. Tremblay's play about incest and despair in a Montreal family enjoyed critical success in Canada, made a small splash in New York--and should probably have been allowed to lade into memory thereafter. Though a spirited Lowell House Drama Society production captures enough of Tremblay's lacerating wit to keep the pot boiling for two hours, the script clamps a cover on the actors, and the play never takes...
...Tremblay unfolds the plot through gradual, cyclic self-revelation. On returning from a three month vacation in Europe to escape his family's problems. Serge has talks with his father and two aunts, his three elder sisters, and his lover, Nicole--and has talks, and has talks, and has talks. Wingrove's blocking is deft: Serge travels an a small circle around his bed, center stage, and is able to enter the houses and lives of each of his relatives with one single step towards their particular corner of the stage. His jerky, frantic movements contrast markedly with the immobility...
...Tremblay's dialogue is compressed yet disjointed. Though the individual conversations proceed chronologically, they are interrupted by the others, as if the family had a communal memory and understanding. There is more than a suggestion that Serge is this center, and that the set represents his mind: The bed and Nicole make up the core of Serge's world which is in turn fractured by the individual needs and desires of the others...
...initial tensions fail to build, and Tremblay doesn't deepen his characterizations. Serge's sisters just eat, drink, cry, and beseech Serge more and more: help me, be near me, move in with me. The stasis is partly Tremblay's way of showing how rutted the family is; Serge recognizes the pattern and shouts to Lucienne "How many times have we been through this routine...
...Canadiens are not renowned for blowing two-goal leads in the third period of Stanley Cup final games, and Mario Tremblay provided the insurance goal at 14:48. Risebrough passed the puck to Yvon Lambert along the far boards; Lambert's centering pass went in off Tremblay's skate...