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...Michael Tremblay, a French Canadian writer, makes several references to soap opera in his play, ironically acknowledging his work's kinship to all that sordidness. But soap opera, for all its low rent aspects, works because few of us can tolerate lives in which nothing ever happens. At least SOMETHING happens in a soap opera. The characters in Bonjour La, Bonjour sit isolated in chairs, hardly able to interact physically, hardly able to look at each other, almost totally unable to bear looking at themselves. Their lives would echo with emptiness were it not for their soap opera--their dramatic...
...fancier noun for this genre is psychodrama, and Tremblay supplies the "psycho" in liberal portions. The central character, who sits on a stool at center stage, is Serge, a young man about 25 years old who has just returned to Canada from a three-month vacation to Europe. Around him, in their solitary chairs, are his four older sisters, two intolerable, hypochondriac aunts and his father who is so deaf he can barely hear shouts. During the play, Serge confronts the fact that the members of his family have made wrecks of their lives...
There's nothing particularly new in saying that "normal" middle class life throttles vital emotions, but Tremblay overlays a complex weave of thematic concerns to avoid staleness. It isn't enough that one sister sleeps with Serge, all the others want to as well. They grab for him physically and spiritually hoping that if only he will agree to live with them they will be saved from their miserable lives. The two old aunts, who must sleep in the same bed even though they hate each other, add their pleas to the chorus. Jealousy, lust, hatred, infidelity, frustration--all swirl...
Doug Risebrough, out of Guelph, Ont., is a gifted center who rooms with Mario Tremblay, from Alma, Que. "Our team is about half French," he says, "and people from the media sometimes look for strains. But there aren't any Election night you heard some jokes. The Anglos were through here. The next day we'd have to play for Ottawa. Jokes were all these were. I mean the record sort of indicates that we get along...
Crimson grappler Bob Cusamano gave the lead back to Harvard as the freshman easily handled Larry Tremblay of Springfield at 134. Cusumano had a near pin in the final minute, but nevertheless, he took the 8-3 decision and the Crimson...