For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is the playwright's homage to his colourful, down to earth mother who nurtured his imagination, his reclusive reading habits and his love for the theatre and the arts. In a compelling balance of humour and poignancy, Tremblay offers glimpses of himself and his mother at five different stages of their lives together. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the spectacular success of Tremblay's first play, Les Belles Sœurs, this play was produced back-to-back, in French then in English, in the playwright's home town of Montreal. These anniversary celebrations were hailed as the theatre event of the season.

« NARRATOR : Need I say that the threat of Reform School hung over my entire childhood? (NANA reenters.) / NANA : That's where they send stupid kids like you, the wiseguys, the tough guys, the hotheads, the birdbrains, the copycats, and they shave their heads and stick them in a pair of pyjamas made of burlap sacks and sentence them to hard labour! […] »

"I can remember perhaps five performances in my life that have delighted me and moved me so much (...) The work zips along, breathing with the audience... a magnificently cathartic and beautifully staged theatrical moment." Gaëtan L. Charlebois, Hour, August 13-19, 1998.