by Michel Tremblay

translated by Bill Glassco and John Van Burek | directed by Richard Rose

The Real World? remains a groundbreaking play about art, autobiography and authority. Should or can playwrights truly “write what they know”? If they use their family members as characters in a play, whose play is it? Whose truth is it? And what happens when those family members stand up to their artist son and object to their theatrical selves? Tarragon Theatre is reviving this Canadian classic nearly 25 years after it premiered in English on our stage.

Michel Tremblay has been a dominant figure in Quebec theatre since the late 1960s. Tarragon has produced 13 of his plays, 10 of which were English-language premieres. His plays have been performed throughout Canada and the United States, as well as in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Tarragon has toured four Tremblay productions, including The Real World? to Glasgow’s Mayfest.