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My mother dog [2009]
Partie du recueil: Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation, Volume III (1997-2009), Playwrights Canada Press, Toronto: 2010)
Original
Résumé The last thirty-six hours in the life of a mother brings out all that is painful, difficult, and mythological in her relationship with her two adult daughters. The "good" daughter, her eldest, sleeps and dreams at her bedside. Meanwhile, everyone is desperately trying to stave off this inevitable and agonising death just long enough for the younger daughter -- the artist, the wanderer -- to return, make her peace, and say good-bye. Extrait «THE MOTHER: (sardonic laugh) The ogress has a taste for children, avenging the childhood she never had. A monster, I’m a monster, I’d love to go for a bike ride with friends my own age. I'm not crazy, just isolated and too young to die and that's what makes me complain so bitterly, I want Santa's sack full of love and I want it before Christmas. I'm an abortion, here's what an abortion is like: it's a child's bad drawing, but alive, rolled up in a ball at the bottom of the toilet bowl, so stop trying to clean me up, for God’s sake, just pull the chain and flush!»
Revue de presse «...the universe of Louise Bombardier... Nightmare fading into reality; violence; brief sparks of ferocious humour; varying levels of consciousness...» Anne-Marie Cloutier, La Presse, September 19, 2005 |
