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Les parents terribles
Par Jean Cocteau. 1938
Michel et son père sont amoureux de la même femme. Le père s'en aperçoit et essaie de dire à son…
fils qu'il a un rival sans que sa femme connaisse l'histoire. 1938.
Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel: portraits-souvenirs
Par Jean Cocteau. 1948

L'oiseau bleu
Par Maurice Maeterlinck. 1970
La veille de Noël, une fée emmène deux enfants au pays du souvenir, au palais de la nuit, au jardin…
du bonheur et au royaume de l'avenir à la recherche de l'oiseau bleu. 1970.
Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon: comédie
Par Eugène Labiche, Édouard Martin, Jacques Nathan. 1954
Tous deux prétendants d'Henriette Perrichon, Daniel et Armand tentent, par des procédés différents, de mettre son père de son côté.…
Plus habile que son rival, Daniel obtient la préférence .... jusqu'à ce que ses supercheries soient découvertes. 1954.
Zone: pièce en trois actes
Par Marcel Dubé. 1960
Passe-Partout voudrait remplacer Tarzan à la tête d'un groupe de contrebandiers. Sa trahison entraîne la condamnation de Tarzan pour le…
meurtre d'un douanier. Après son évasion, que fera Tarzan? Reprendre la direction de la bande ou fuir à l'étranger? 1960.
First published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetry
The portable Chekhov (The Viking Portable library #No. 35)
Par Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1978
A collection of twenty-eight short stories including "The Man in a Shell," "Gooseberries," and "The Darling;" two plays, "The Boor,"…
and "The Cherry Orchard;" and selected letters of Chekhov. Includes a chronology of his life and a selected bibliography of his works
Un conte de l'apocalypse (Théâtre)
Par Robert Marinier. 2021
Dans un futur pas si lointain ravagé par les dérèglements climatiques, des villes sont submergées, des routes sont détruites et…
les flots de migrants convergent vers les dernières terres arables. Au Canada, une faction extrémiste du Parti vert organise un coup d’État et condamne à mort tous ceux qui ont nié le réchauffement de la planète. Une rébellion se lève.Persuadé d’être dans une pièce de théâtre, Guy Coudonc reste détaché de la catastrophe avant d’être catapulté au rang de personnage principal de cette fable écologique.Exploration théâtrale à l’humour grinçant, Un conte de l’apocalypse met en lumière les impacts qu’ont nos décisions sur notre histoire et notre environnement.
The pelican: a comedy
Par Martin Michael Driessen, Jonathan Reeder. 2019
In a small town on the Adriatic coast, postman Andrej and funicular railway conductor Josip discover each other's secrets and…
begin blackmailing the other. A strange friendship develops, but war looms. Translated from the original 2017 Dutch edition. Some violence and some strong language. 2019
Les gens adorent les guerres: et autres inédits : textes dramatiques
Par Denys Arcand. 2007
"Vers 1976, Denys Arcand a écrit, pour une série qui s'appellerait Empire Inc., un épisode qui se passait à l'époque…
de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Dix ans plus tôt, il s'était déjà intéressé au rôle qu'avaient joué les communistes canadiens et américains pendant la guerre. Dans bien des cas, les alliances objectives entre le grand capital et la hiérarchie communiste s'étaient faites sur le dos des gauchistes naïfs. Arcand avait aussi envie de parler de l'abîme infranchissable qui séparait à cette époque ces presbytériens richissimes anglophones et les masses laborieuses catholiques francophones. L'épisode n'a jamais été tourné, mais nous pouvons en lire le texte ici, accompagné de trois autres inédits. Chacun de ces textes peut se lire comme une nouvelle ou un court roman dialogué. Les personnages, les thèmes, la composition, la tonalité à la fois légère et grave, toute leur écriture, en somme, compose un univers qui annonce directement Jésus de Montréal, Les Invasions barbares et L'Âge des ténèbres et illustre à merveille ce style et ce regard si particuliers qui caractérisent toute l'œuvre de Denys Arcand". -- 4e de couv
La Poune ressuscitée: roman-théâtre (Étoiles variables)
Par Jean Désy. 2007
"Au moment où débute ce récit, qui est simultanément un roman et une pièce de théâtre, les choses ne vont…
pas bien pour Paul. Il vient de perdre sa fille Rosalie, morte dans un accident de voiture. Paul en veut au monde entier, et en particulier à son voisin qui, au dire de Paul, a causé la mort de Rosalie. Il conduisait vite et il avait bu. La fureur de Paul est extrême. Heureusement, le voisin s'enfuit. Apparaît alors la mère de Paul, morte depuis un certain temps, grande admiratrice de la Poune et tout aussi vulgaire qu'elle. Elle aime enlever ses dentiers et faire des grimaces. Elle est surtout libre d'esprit et prête à tout pour sauver son fils. "On va guérir tous les deux", dit la mère. Et elle multiplie les facéties, apparaît dans la fenêtre au moment où son fils fait l'amour avec son amie Sonia, est toujours là au mauvais moment, mais en même temps elle plane au-dessus de son fils, maternelle, omniprésente, ricaneuse et bénéfique..." -- 4e de couv
Les justes: pièce en cinq actes (Folio Ser.)
Par Albert Camus. 1988
Cette pièce retrace l'histoire des circonstances qui ont précédé et suivi l'attentat à la bombe contre le grand-duc, oncle du…
tsar, à Moscou en 1905, par un groupe de terroristes appartenant au Parti socialiste révolutionnaire. Les différentes sensibilités de ces révolutionnaires se croisent et se confrontent.
J't'aime encore: monologue amoureux
Par Roxanne Bouchard. 2016
" À vingt ans, on rêvait de lliberté. Alors pourquoi est-ce qu'on s'est attaché? Pourquoi est-ce qu'on a voulu être…
la moitié d'un autre, puis choisi de fonder une famille? Et pourquoi reste-t-on, alors que les différends se sont accumulés au fil des années, que les enfants nous épuisent et que le quotidien nous lasse? Pourquoi s'entêter à aimer encore quand il serait si facile de partier? J't'aime encore est un récit qui explore le besoin d'enracinement et la présente dérangeante du doute. "
We all want impossible things
Par Catherine Newman. 2022
"Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They've shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick…
or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan's Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. As Ash says, "Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine." But now the unthinkable has happened. Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days at a hospice near Ash, who stumbles into heartbreak surrounded by her daughters, ex(ish) husband, dear friends, a poorly chosen lover (or two), and a rotating cast of beautifully, fleetingly human hospice characters. As The Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack blasts all day long from the room next door, Edi and Ash reminisce, hold on, and try to let go. Meanwhile, Ash struggles with being an imperfect friend, wife, and parent--with life, in other words, distilled to its heartbreaking, joyful, and comedic essence." -- Provided by publisher
The brilliant life of Eudora Honeysett: a novel
Par Annie Lyons. 2020
"Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world-all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old…
age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone to set her affairs in order. Instead, she finds herself embarking on a series of adventures with the irrepressible Rose and their affable neighbor, the recently widowed Stanley-afternoon tea, shopping sprees, trips to the beach, birthday celebrations, pizza parties. While the trio of unlikely BFFs grow closer and anxiously await the arrival of Rose's new baby sister, Eudora is reminded of her own childhood-of losing her father during World War II and the devastating impact it had on her entire family. In reflecting on her past, Eudora realizes she must come to terms with what lies ahead. But now that her joy for life has been rekindled, how can she possibly say goodbye?" -- Provided by publisher
Boy swallows universe: A novel
Par Trent Dalton. 2019
Now a Netflix original series starring Simon Baker, Travis Fimmel, and Phoebe Tonkin! "Hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers…
you with heartbreak. . . . Eli's remarkably poetic voice and his astonishingly open heart take the day. They enable him to carve out the best of what's possible from the worst of what is, which is the miracle that makes this novel marvelous." -Washington Post ""The best book I read this decade."" -Sharon Van Etten in Rolling Stone A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is the tale of an adolescent boy on the cusp of discovering the man he will be. Eli Bell's life is complicated. His father is lost, his mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The most steadfast adult in Eli's life is Slim-a notorious felon and national record-holder for successful prison escapes-who watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older brother. Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, a neglected suburb populated by Polish and Vietnamese refugees, this twelve-year-old boy with an old soul and an adult mind is just trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism. Life, however, insists on throwing obstacles in Eli's path-most notably Tytus Broz, Brisbane's legendary drug dealer. But the real trouble lies ahead. Eli is about to fall in love, face off against truly bad guys, and fight to save his mother from a certain doom-all before starting high school. Powerful and kinetic, Trent Dalton's debut is sure to be one of the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novels you will experience
Flight: a novel
Par Lynn Steger Strong. 2022
A novel about the systemic failings that are haunting Americans, but also to the ways in which family, friends, and…
strangers can support each other through the gaps. It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother's Florida house. Over the course of the next three days, old resentments and instabilities arise as the siblings, with a gaggle of children afoot, attempt to perform familiar rituals, while also trying to decide what to do with their mother's house, their sole inheritance Strong language
Twelve Angry Men: A Screen Adaptation, Directed By Sidney Lumet (Student Editions Ser.)
Par Reginald Rose. 1997
The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was…
a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U. S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form. .
Fuenteovejuna
Par Lope De Vega. 2010
Lope de Vega "single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre," writes Roberto González Echevarría in the introduction to this new translation…
of Fuenteovejuna. Often compared to Shakespeare, Molière, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the greatest of all Spanish playwrights, and Fuenteovejuna (The Sheep Well) is among the most important Spanish Golden Age plays. Written in 1614, Fuenteovejuna centers on the decision of an entire village to admit to the premeditated murder of a tyrannical ruler. Lope masterfully employs the tragicomic conventions of the Spanishcomediaas he leavens the central dilemma of the peasant lovers, Laurencia and Frondoso, with the shenanigans of Mengo, thegraciosoor clown. Based on an actual historical incident,Fuenteovejuna offers a paean to collective responsibility and affirmation of the timeless values of justice and kindness. Translator G.J. Racz preserves the nuanced voice and structure of Lope de Vega's text in this first English translation in analogical meter and rhyme. Roberto González Echevarría surveys the history ofFuenteovejuna, as well as Lope's enormous literary output and indelible cultural imprint. Racz's compelling translation and González Echevarría's rich framework bring this timeless Golden Age drama alive for a new generation of readers and performers.
Death of a Salesman
Par Arthur Miller, Gerald Weales. 1977
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of…
a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room."By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." --Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times"So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." --Time