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Drama Canadian

Les Canadiens

by (author) Rick Salutin

preface by Ken Dryden

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Jan 1977
Category
Canadian, Hockey, Quebec (QC)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889221222
    Publish Date
    Jan 1977
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

Les Canadiens begins on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when a French-Canadian soldier throws his rifle to his son and it becomes a hockey stick. It ends in the Montreal Forum on the night of November 15, 1976, when Montreal Canadien fans turn a hockey game into an election victory rally for the indépendantiste Parti Québécois. In between, it is a play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor—and a play about hockey using Quebec and Canada as its setting. Les Canadiens was commissioned by and first performed at Centaur Theatre in Montreal in February, 1977. The book contains a preface by Ken Dryden, former goalie for the Montreal Canadiens, and an introduction on hockey, politics and theatre by Rick Salutin.

About the authors

His play Les Canadiens (1977), written with an “assist” by hockey great Ken Dryden, won a Chalmers Award in 1978.

Rick Salutin's profile page

Ken Dryden is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and is widely recognized as one of the greatest goaltenders of all time. During Dryden’s eight seasons in goal, the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup six times, and Dryden won the Conn Smythe Trophy, Calder Cup and Vezina trophy six times. A graduate of Cornell University and, in law, McGill University, he is the author of three other books, Home Game, The Moved and the Shaken and In School. Ken served as a member of parliament, including as a cabinet minister, and was recently inducted into the Order of Canada. He lives in Toronto.

Ken Dryden's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

Editorial Reviews

“An examination of the Canadiens has never been mastered so well—even in a town that searches every pore of its sports heroes.”
Montreal Gazette

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