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	Bouchard, Michel Marc
		Bouchard, Michel Marc, playwright, actor (b at St-Coeur de Marie, Qué 2 Feb 1958).
		Bouchard is the author of more than 20 plays, most of which have been produced professionally.
		Bouchard was artistic director of Ottawa's Trillium Theatre from 1989 to 1991 and is currently vice-president of Montréal's prestigious Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010173 (370 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Bouchard, Michel Marc
		Michel Marc Bouchard was born in the Lac-Saint-Jean village of Saint Coeur-de-Marie, about two hours north of Quebec City, Canada, on 2 February 1958.
		Bouchard followed the success of Lilies with Les Muses orphelines (1988), translated as The Orphan Muses for its 1993 English language premiere at the Ubu Repertory Theatre in New York City and its subsequent extended and successful tour across English Canada.
		Bouchard is currently vice-president of the prestigious Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in Montréal.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5364 (1465 words)

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		Michel Marc was honored with Dora Mavor Moore and Chalmers Awards, as well as le Journal de Montréal Award for Literary Excellence.
		Her translation of Michel Marc Bouchard's Les Feluettes (Lilies) was nominated for the 1991 Governor General's Award for Literary Translation and won both the 1990-1991 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and a 1992 Chalmers Award for Outstanding Canadian Play.
		Playwright Michel Marc Bouchard mixes history and his own insights into the human condition to create a powerful theatre experience in which we witness the struggle to live through or conquer the effects of our own mistakes and the actions of others.
	www.globetheatrelive.com /20022003season/coronationvoyagestudyguide.htm (4297 words)

	Aisle Say (Ontario): THE CORONATION VOYAGE
		Bouchard sets his play aboard an ocean liner headed to England for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
		Whether she is tossing off one of Bouchard's brittle put-downs or lashing out at her husband and his dedication to maintaining emotional balance at the cost of his soul, Belleville absolutely inhabits the woman's spirit.
		Perhaps this is due to the fact that Bouchard mixes too many styles with too little purpose and perhaps the debates are more intriguing than the characters are compelling.
	www.aislesay.com /ONT-CORONATION.html (946 words)

	ArtsAlive.ca - Théâtre français : Seeing French Theatre in Canada
		Bouchard writes summer theatre comedies which he considers to be stylistic exercises through which he questions romantic behaviour.
		Bouchard obtained a B.A. in theatre from the University of Ottawa in 1980.
		Screenplays by Michel Marc Bouchard in repertory cinema:
	www.artsalive.ca /en/thf/voir/auteurs.html (2664 words)

	Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD) - Index of titles
		Lilies or The Revival of a Romantic Drama by Michel Marc Bouchard
		Marcel Pursued by the Hounds by Michel Tremblay
		Strauss and Pesant (and Rosa) by Michel Garneau
	www.cead.qc.ca /eng/repw3/Catalogue_titles_eng.html (703 words)

	MetroActive Stage \| Lilies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		No stranger to success, Bouchard will be flying down courtesy of the Canadian consulate when he bursts out of the snowy cocoon of another nostril-freezing winter in Montreal, shedding his snow boots for a few sun-soaked days.
		Throughout this rapidly blooming career, Bouchard has refused to tiptoe through the theatrical tulips, preferring to tackle the thorniest topics--incest, child abuse, inter-family intrigues--as he takes a fresh look at some of society's most marginalized members.
		This time 'round, though, Bouchard is confident that his play is in good hands with Lovett as director of the monthlong run at Louden Nelson Theater.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/04.04.96/stage-9614.html (1295 words)

	Web Site\Globe Theatre\20022003season\voyagecastandcompany
		Her translations of plays by Michel Marc Bouchard, René-Daniel Dubois, Normand Chaurette, Daniel Danis, Michel Garneau, Gratien Gelinas, Jovette Marchessault and Michel Tremblay have been published and widely produced across Canada and abroad.
		MICHELLE LAGASSÉ(Stage Manager) is making her Globe debut and is thrilled to be working with Allen MacInnis again on such an exciting play.
		Michelle is a graduate of the University of Winnipeg and the National Theatre School.
	www.globetheatrelive.com /20022003season/voyagecastandcompany.htm (2141 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Adapted by playwright Michel Marc Bouchard from his own Les Fleurettes, this lush melodrama opens in 1952, as elderly Bishop Bilodeau (Marcel Sanbourin) is lured to a federal prison to hear the confession of dying prisoner Simon (Aubert Pallascio).
		The hitch is that Simon isn't dying at all, and that he, the prison chaplain (Ian D. Clark) and a motley group of cons have conspired to force the bishop to confess and confront his own secret past.
		Michel Marc Bouchard (based on his play Les feluettes ou la repetition d'un drame romantique [Lilies, or The Revival of a Romantic Drama])
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=39707 (267 words)

	Eye - A drowned world - 02.05.04
		CanStage is presenting the English-language premiere of Quebecois playwright Michel Marc Bouchard's Written on Water (Les Manuscrits du déluge).
		A small village has been swept away by a flood leaving a few seniors who had created their own town archive to salvage what is left.
		Bouchard raises them but does nothing with them, veering instead to topics of ageism and senior sexuality that he also does not develop, thus leaving a play that's both superficial and pretentious.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.05.04/arts/onstage.html (1239 words)

	NOW Magazine Online Edition: Jan 22 - 28, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bouchard's poetry- and fantasy- tinged plays are special, in part because of the overt theatricality he uses to create powerful, fascinating worlds.
		There's the prison in Lilies, where the inmates recreate the past to show up a dissimulating cleric; the seaboard universe of The Coronation Voyage, where art, sex and politics are woven into a surprising tapestry; and the seemingly straightforward home in The Orphan Muses, where a family of siblings play elaborate games.
		"Michel Marc's world is anchored in the rural geography of Canada," offers Chevrier, former artistic director of Ottawa's Great Canadian Theatre Company and currently an associate artist at CanStage, for whom she directed last season's Rice Boy.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2004-01-22/stage_theatrepreview_p.html (582 words)

	Steel bars perfect backdrop for 'Lilies,' 'Transport'
		The oppressive reality of confinement is more immediate and the historical lessons clearer in Steve Gooch's "Transport," a 1973 English play that's been seen here before.
		French Canadian Michel Marc Bouchard's more recent "Lilies," in its local premiere, is the more intriguing of the two annual showcases for Master of Fine Arts graduating students of the Conservatory branch of the American Conservatory Theater.
		Bouchard enlivens the tale with vividly conceived eccentrics and evocative incidents.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/15/DDG6HBP6Q21.DTL&type=printable (680 words)

	Linda Gaboriau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1991 - Lilies (Michel Marc Bouchard, Les feluettes)
		1998 - The Tale of Teeka (Michel Marc Bouchard, L'histoire de l'oie)
		1999 - The Coronation Voyage (Michel Marc Bouchard, Le voyage du Couronnement)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linda_Gaboriau (388 words)

	Eye - Road to nowhere - 11.15.01
		The brothers are stuck in the same place their father died; this happens on the morning of the young sibling's wedding; and they have enough unresolved familial issues to provide grist for the soap-opera mills for years to come.
		There are moments of surprising tenderness and affection among the brothers that recall Bouchard's more substantial Lilies or The Orphan Muses, but the siblings are so radically different that they run the risk of being mistaken for a representative sample of Québécois males.
		As Bouchard emphasized the different ways we transcend our history but can never fully escape it, you question the wisdom of the writing's stereotypical trappings.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.15.01/arts/onstage.html (1661 words)

	TheatreBooks -- Theatre: Canadian Plays: B
		Torrential rains and an overflowing river have caused a mudslide in a small isolated village 'writing room' -- the room where a small group of senior citizens used to meet to record their memories.
		In Written on Water Bouchard has created an almost overwhelming commentary of the current world stage, using age and youth, and flood and restoration as his metaphors.
		Bouchard's only children's play to date is the story of a friendship between a troubled boy and a goose, which ends tragically.
	www.theatrebooks.com /theatre/canadian_plays/bcanadian.html (2420 words)

	FFWD Weekly - November 27, 2003
		Set in Quebec, Michel Marc Bouchard’s play, now being staged by Mob Hit Productions, tells the story of three brothers who get into an accident en route to the oldest sibling’s fishing cabin on the morning of the youngest one’s wedding day.
		Bouchard’s script is a complex work that weaves memory and truth into pure poetry.
		While Mob Hit’s ambition sometimes exceeds its means, the company has an admirable desire to produce and perform great contemporary works and to take a few risks at the same time.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2003/1127/the2.htm (480 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A collection of plays by some of Canada’s most prolific and gifted French playwrights, including Michel Marc Bouchard and Herménégilde Chiasson, have recently been translated into English.
		Ironically, the tragic flood comes to represent a cleansing experience, where the seniors release the shackles of the past and free themselves into the future.
		In a poetic fashion, Bouchard has the protagonist, Samuel, finally confront himself; he pleads forgiveness to his (deceased) wife as they blissfully float away together amid the ruins of the flood.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/unassigned/6512_belliveau.html (487 words)

	I Don't Know Art, But I Know What I Write: Lilies: Beyond Euro-pudding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That Lilies, director John Greyson's adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard's play Les fleurettes, is coherent at all, let alone lushly romantic and flamboyantly theatrical, is a testament to the desire of the filmmakers to stay true to the play in the process of adapting it for film.
		Greyson, Bouchard and his English translator, Linda Gaboriau, as well as the two producers from Triptych, began working on the screenplay in 1992.
		Then, "Michel Marc Bouchard had a number of ideas of people he wanted to work with.
	www.lespagesauxfolles.ca /Academic/lilies.htm (2223 words)

	The Stage Online :: Reviews :: The Orphan Muses
		Translated by Linda Gaboriau, this is the UK premiere of a highly successful play from the pen of Canadian writer Michel Marc Bouchard.
		Bouchard’s play has been a success both on stage and screen and Gaboriau’s translation sparkles with equal amounts of humour and pathos although it seemed a little hampered at times by the heavy Gallic accents.
		This is a thoughtful play about the falling apart of the family unit and as such, it could quite easily have been set anywhere in the Western world.
	www.thestage.co.uk /reviews/review.php/4180 (336 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Orphan Muses
		But Gilles Desjardins' script, based on the play by "Lilies" author Michel Marc Bouchard, is too predictable, with the family secrets tumbling out at regular intervals in classic psycho-drama fashion.
		Favreau has expanded the drama beyond the stagy confines of the Tanguay house, but pic is unable to completely shed its legit origins and remains a talky, claustrophobic piece.
		Composers Michel Donato and James Gelfand add greatly to the pic with music that neatly blends Quebecois traditional sounds with jazzy riffs.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117788608?categoryid=31&cs=1 (501 words)

	FFWD Weekly: October 23rd., 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After a premier season that surprised and impressed a lot of people with two French-Canadian plays, Theatre in Exile didn't think they were going to tackle another similar work.
		So instead of moving on to some undiscovered Eastern European gem, the company chose to take on The Orphan Muses, by Michel Marc Bouchard, author of Lilies, which was Theatre in Exile's inaugural production.
		"There are definite trends in both plays that are Michel Marc Bouchard," she says.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/1997/1023/theatre1 (574 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - Gay Day at Commission scolaire de Montreal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An “openly gay” Quebec author, Michel-Marc Bouchard, is composing the letter, not yet written.
		Chair of the board’s parent’s committee, Claude Bouchard, thought the proposal was a good idea, although he expects some resistance from immigrant families.
		In others, there will be some discomfort on the part of certain parents,” Bouchard said.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3833 (606 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Lilies
		They are also, as the philosopher Michel Foucault notes in Discipline and Punish, the shape of the fleur-de-lis brand burned into criminals as a symbol of the wrath of the French king.
		In this rich, bitter confection, there's practically no violence and more than a hint of camp; Lilies may not be one of the best movies of the year, but it's certainly one of the most unusual.
		Lilies (Unrated; 95 min.), directed by John Greyson, written by Michel Marc Bouchard, photographed by Daniel Jobin and starring Ian D. Clark and Brent Carver.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.09.97/lilies-9741.html (413 words)

	NOW: Down scale, Nov 15 - 21, 2001
		Down Dangerous Passes Roadby Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau, directed by Sarah Stanley, with David Jansen, Brandon McGibbon and Tony Munch.
		quebec's michel marc bouchard is a master of the modern memory play.
		In what's almost become a formula, he (as in Lilies and The Orphan Muses) writes in dreamy, heightened language about characters haunted by their often abusive pasts who achieve closure in 90 minutes.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-11-15/stage_theatrereviews5.html (348 words)

	London Film Festival 1996 - Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When you're a teenager and you think you're the only homo on the planet, you invent these very melodramatic, romantic stories just to outwit the loneliness." So says Canadian filmmaker John Greyson of his new film, Lilies.
		Based on a play by Michel Marc Bouchard (who also wrote the screenplay) it is a magical, Genet-like story which flits between 1952 and 1912.
		It tells of an elderly bishop called to a Quebec prison to hear an inmate's confession.
	www.filmfestivals.com /london96/lfilb9.htm (202 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Film - Going C.R.A.Z.Y.
		Vallée's film is only the latest in a long tradition of Quebec screenwriters exploring relations between straight and gay brothers — the works of Robert Lepage (Le Confessionnal), Michel Tremblay (the TV series Le coeur découvert) and Michel Marc Bouchard (screenwriter for John Greyson's Lilies) come most readily to mind.
		One of the film's subtexts is the waning influence of the Catholic Church in Quebec society; at one point, Zachary's father (beautifully played by Michel Côté) remarks that he's “getting sick” of the local priests.
		But when I called Michel Côté and he saw the script, he told me I was crazy and that I must stay in Quebec and shoot the film here.”
	www.cbc.ca /arts/film/crazy.html (1306 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Canadian playwright Michel Marc Bouchard’s 1994 drama, The Orphan Muses, touches upon some oh-so-familiar dysfunctional family territory.
		What makes his take different is that instead of sons struggling to make peace with Dad, Bouchard’s protagonists struggle with momma issues.
		Seems Mom pulled an Ibsen and walked out on her family years before the story begins.
	www.ocweekly.com /printme.php?&eid=69472 (380 words)

	National Arts Centre - Centre national des Arts
		“A profound reflection on memory and on the act of writing...told with Michel Marc Bouchard’s characteristic humour and poetry.” – Montréal ce soir, Radio-Canada.
		Ottawa -- When a devastating flood destroys their manuscripts, along with most of their village, the members of a close-knit writing group must decide whether or not to try to re-create what has been lost, or to write a new future for themselves.
		Pre-Show Chat – An informal discussion before the Saturday Matinee performance – Saturday, February 28 at 13:00 in the NAC Panorama Room Guest Speaker: Michel Marc Bouchard, Playwright.
	www.nac-cna.ca /en/nacnews/viewnews.cfm?ID=658&cat=catET (419 words)

	Lilies (Les Feluettes, ou La Répétition d’un drama romantique) Film Review - Time Out Film
		The prisoner, a boyhood friend, near the end of a life sentence, has mounted an elaborate performance by his fellow inmates, his purpose to prick the prelate's guilty conscience and pierce the passions of their hidden teenage years.
		It's easy to see how the theatrical artifice eliding past and present might have impressed in Michel-Marc Bouchard's stage original, but on screen, for all the florid intercutting, it remains in the shadow of Robert Lepage.
		Still, strong performances from an all-male cast (in drag where necessary), and Mychael Danna's choral score for the Hilliard Ensemble decorate the gay melodrama with an aura of keening nostalgic melancholy.
	www.timeout.com /film/80477.html (183 words)

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