2008

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February 2 - March 7, 2010

Centaur Theatre Company presents
MICHEL & TI-JEAN
By GEORGE RIDEOUT
Directed by SARAH GARTON STANLEY

STARRING
Alain Goulem
Vincent Hoss-Desmarais

Set & Costume Design by Amy Keith
Lighting Design by Kirsten Watt
Stage Manager: Mélanie St-Jacques
Apprentice Stage Manager: Stephanie Link

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.

The ruling found that Kerouac's mother's will was a forgery, following a
suit brought by Kerouac's sister's son Paul Blake who, The Telegraph
reports, claimed to have a letter written by Kerouac in which he said he
wished his estate: "to go to someone directly connected with the last
remaining drop of my direct blood line, and not leave a dingblasted
f***ing goddamn thing to my wife's one hundred Greek relatives."

The victory in Florida does not mean that Blake will inherit the estate,
as it was given to the Sampas family through Stella's will and not
Gabrielle's. The value of Kerouac's estate was once estimated at
$20-million, but John Sampas, who manages the estate on behalf of the
family, told The Telegraph that it was worth less now. According to
Sampas the estate includes the manuscript for Kerouac's unpublished
first novel, The Sea is My Brother, which will be published in the US
next year.