Four to Four [1974]
(Éditions Simon and Pierre, Toronto, 1978)
Original
Résumé This is a theatrical quartet where four generations of mothers and daughters confront each other and their experiences of what it means to be a wife and a woman. The soliloquies of the four women blend into a dialogue between the older women and the youngest daughter who struggles to throw
off the yoke of inherited attitudes and yearns to reinvent love. Extrait « CELINE : […] He'll only have me then | Maybe | When he'll stop working | He won't know what to do | Then he'll come back for sure | And perhaps we'll get together again / ANOUK : I don't understand you / CELINE : I don't understand you either | But I love you you're my little girl / PAULINE : If it makes you feel better girls | I never ever understood that there was something | To understand except that the fog is thick | And you can't ever see anyone | My mother had a snowflake in her head | And she thought the world was built the same way » Revue de presse "There is something genuinely transcendent about Michel Garneau's Four to Four (...), at times
reminiscent of Chekhov's Three Sisters, with an emotional scope that makes it universally
affecting." Kirk Ellis, Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1984. |