Texte de George Rideout
Mise en scène de Sarah Garton Stanley
In 1969, 27-year-old Michel Tremblay, having just published Les Belles Soeurs, sets out to meet his favourite writer, the “king of the Beatniks”; Jack Kerouac, at a bar in St. Petersburg, Florida. Despite an initial reticence on Kerouac’s part, the two prolific writers hit it off and share their thoughts on the art of writing, inspirations, sports, music, religion and the most innate quality they share: their Quebecois heritage. Though fictitious, Michel & ti-Jean is an evocative and spirited glimpse into the poetic and philosophical world of North American literature.