This play takes us back to the world of the first in Tremblay's cycle of novels entitled Chronicles of Plateau Mont-Royal. The action takes place in 1953 and Marcel is 15 years old. His sister, Thérèse, has sunken into a morass of alcoholism and is married to a man who has no guts, no pride, and no job. Plagued by hallucinations, Marcel finds little solace in Thérèse's world of cheap nightclubs on The Main. His imagination and, ultimately, madness will provide his only escape.

« MARCEL : Will you take me back with you? Can we start again, like before? (THÉRÈSE rocks her brother.) / THÉRÈSE : Marcel, it scares me when you talk like that! Who are you talking to? »

"Marcel Pursued by the Hounds (...) is a riveting, often terrifying, look at two tormented souls that readily suggests the cruel horrors that percolate through the Oresteia trilogy of Greek author Aeschylus, enscribed 2,500 years ago." Geoff Chapman, The Toronto Star, January 14, 1998.