Hosanna by Michel Tremblay by Theatre at UBC
Hosanna is a play about a personal relationship and the struggle with strong feelings of love, jealousy, fear of aging and death, but most of all the reluctance to surrender illusions and the resistance to change
Date/Time: Jun 7 2019, 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, Dorothy Somerset Studio6361 University Boulevard
UBC Theatre and Film presents Hosanna by Michel Tremblay
The heart-rending and often hilarious Hosanna by seminal French Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay shines light on the fear of change, identity, and the reluctance to release the illusion of self. Aging drag queen Hosanna, a man wanting to be a woman, wanting to be Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra, with her live-in partner Curiette, a going-to-seed leather stud, faces a Halloween night feeling like an outsider in her own skin.
Hosanna, was first performed in French at Théâtre de Quat’Sous in 1973 and in English at Toronto’s Tarragon in 1974 and is set in an exotic world of nightclubs and gay bars on the main of Montreal in the seventies. Written during the social and political tumult of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, Tremblay's political allegory about the authenticity of self resonates just as much today.
This production of Hosanna, directed by Stephen Heatley and featuring our MFA Acting student Frank Zotter and bilingual actor Joey Lespérance, is part of the Canadian Association of Theatre Research Conference (CATR) under the auspices of the Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences Conference.
The annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the convergence of over 70 scholarly associations, is being held at UBC this year and the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and its accompanying show, Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna, directed by Department Head Stephen Heatley
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