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Feb 7, 2008 · Other plays such as Zone (1953), Un simple soldat (1957), and Au retour des oies blanches (1966) secured his reputation as the most prolific and original playwright of his generation in Québec. Dubé's usual theme is the tragedy of human destiny. Dubé lived in France from 1953-55.
Marcel Dubé OC OQ (January 3, 1930 – April 7, 2016) was a Canadian playwright. He produced over 300 works for radio, television, and stage. During his career he promoted the preservation and sanctity of the French language in Quebec.
His early plays including De l’autre côté du mur (premiered 1952), Zone (premiered 1953) and Un Simple soldat (premiered 1958) characterize working-class Québécois life. The plays were innovative and very well received by an enthusiastic populace.
Aug 2, 2021 · At Collège Sainte-Marie he founded with friends, including Monique Miller and Raymond Lévesque, the theatre company La Jeune Scène, for which he wrote his first plays. He won several awards at the Dominion Drama Festival in 1953 with his own play, De l'autre côté du mur which later became Zone.
Apr 27, 2016 · Marcel Dubé, arguably one of the province's most prolific and influential writers, was second in a short line of playwrights, after Gratien Gélinas and before Michel Tremblay, who contributed to...
Zone is a French-language three-act play written by French-Canadian author Marcel Dubé. Written when Dubé was 21 and based on memories of his childhood, [1] Zone revolves around a gang of teenaged Québécois criminals who sell contraband cigarettes, [2] and the internal conflicts that ultimately tear the group apart.
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Nov 28, 2012 · Marcel Dubé is one of those rare playwrights who left his mark on Québécois theatre in the 1950s, 60’s and 70’s because of his tough neo naturalistic vision of the stage that was greatly influenced by American playwrights such as Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neil .
