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.