Description

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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 ind pendantiste Parti Qu b cois. 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 Author

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Rick SalutinHis play Les Canadiens (1977), written with an "assist" by hockey great Ken Dryden, won a Chalmers Award in 1978.

Praise For…

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