Albertine en cinq temps

Michel Tremblay’s most recent play is devoted to one of the most complex and least known of the women he has created: ALBERTINE, a character fragmented in time and space, generously portrayed by five actresses. The confrontation and interaction of five facets of a single individual are observed by the quiet and irritatingly confident Madeleine, her sister and most intimate witness observer. Albertine’s double alienation as a woman from an underprivileged family means that her revolt can only be expressed through her cries, despair and refusal to recognize herself in her daughter. But a cry is already a first form of liberation….