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Les Belles-Soeurs
Written by Michel Tremblay
Directed by Lorraine Hopkins & Sue Armstrong
November 21-29, 2025 at the Gladstone Theatre
The tragi-comedy Les Belles-Soeurs is among the most important plays in French Canadian theatre history: for the original’s foray into joual - the working class dialect of Quebec - but also for its brave depiction of working-class women at their worst.
Written by Michel Tremblay in 1965 at the time of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, he is arguably one of Canada’s best living playwrights. Les Belles-Soeurs portrays 15 women expressing their anger, desperation and frustration loudly, rudely and audaciously.
Germaine Lauzon has won a million stamps in a contest. She invites her family and neighbours into her kitchen to help paste them into booklets. Fighting for any power in their suffocating lives, the women yell, backstab, dream and steal in grand theatrical style.
We are proud to have the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign as the recipient of our fundraising efforts for this production. To learn more about this important cause, visit here.
Founded in 2001, Phoenix Players is a community theatre company providing affordable, high quality live theatre entertainment to communities in and around Ottawa. We perform comedies, mysteries and dramas from the Canadian, American and English repertory. Our plays are selected for their entertainment value and audience appeal and are performed at the Gladstone Theatre in Ottawa's Little Italy. As a registered charity, we welcome donations to support our development by offering workshops in theatre arts and contributing to the resources of the Gladstone.
