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Création Tarragon Theatre (Toronto), 1978 Traducteur(s) Sheila Fischman (Auteur féminin) Nombre de personnages 15 Personnage(s), 1 Femme(s), 6 Homme(s), 7 Acteur(s) Particularités distribution 15 characters (8 W, 7 M) and a chorus; can be played by 1 W and 6 M, or by 1 W and 2 M |  |
Original - Original en français par Roland Lepage sous le titre de Le temps d'une vie [1973] (Leméac Éditeur, 1974)
- Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, 11 septembre 1975
- Ce texte a été présenté en lecture publique par le Théâtre populaire du Québec, en collaboration avec le CEAD, le 3 février 1986.
Résumé This is the intimate chronicle of one rural woman's life, from her birth in 1900 to her death in the 1960s. Sixty years of Rosana Guillemette's joy and pain, and the conflicts that arise when her traditional values collide with the rapidly changing times.
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- Décor: A rural home from Rosana's birth in 1900 to her death in the 1960s.
Kitchen.
Bedroom and bed.
A raisy summer day. Rosana is playing in the barn, on a bale of hay.
Early September, fine late summer evening. The swing in front of the house.
November, a cold autumn rain falls against the window. Rosana is braiding rags for a rug.
Winter morning on the porch.
Late March, in the house.
Early May. Her son has come to visit. The remains of their meal are still on the table.
The apartment where Rosana lives.
- Caractéristiques des personnages: ROSANA, at 6, at 18, at 25, at 35, at 45, at 55, at 65.
CHARLES-EDOUARD
GEORGES-ALBERT
WILLY
TELESPHORE
VICTORIEN
DOCTOR CARON
- Chansons: 1 song
Extrait « ROSANA : All the boys that came to see me afterwards, I know they were nice boys. But can I help it if they all seemed as black as that stove and as ugly as sin and as boring as Lent compared with Willy? I loved Willy! … I loved him. Afterwards, well, I figured, if you don't want to, well, you shouldn't get married. / CHARLES-EDOUARD, softly : Now, now, Rosana, what do you want? You got to take her like she comes. (Rather long pause. Rosana says nothing.) When your brother Georges-Albert left the land, went to the city, don't you think I waited too? Don't you think it was hard on me, just one son and he goes away just when he's getting old enough to help me out so's I had to pay strangers if I wanted to have somebody give me a hand? But I took it. You always got to take it like she comes. » Revue de presse "A masterpiece that you should see at least once in your lifetime." Jean Beaunoyer, La Presse, Montreal, February 24, 1988.
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