2 May, 2001
Murray Bramwell
House Among the Stars
by Michel Tremblay.
State Theatre Company of South Australia
The Playhouse. Until 12 May, 2001
State Theatre’s newest production, House Among the Stars, from prolific French Canadian writer Michel Tremblay, is set in a log cabin in rural Quebec-“at the beginning of a beautiful evening in July.” In fact, it is set in three Julys- one in 1910, one in 1950 and a third, forty years on, in 1990. Three generations …
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