QUONTA Festival 2008
Synopsis
“I love Shakespeare, I love Chekhov, I love Michel
Tremblay…” With a backdrop of the Lone Star and the Fleur-de-Lys flags, Jim Bob
Baker introduces himself and his troupe, The Lubbock Little Theatre, who have
come all the way from Texas to perform for a Canadian audience. The play, Un
Anglophone Vient Souper, written by a little-known Québec playwright, has been
translated into English by Jim Bob himself, except for “the swearin'” which he
decided sounded better in the original French. Colliding worlds of culture and
language are served up Texas style in this social satire of a Québecois family
playing host to a bewildered, Ontario-born English professor.