A drag queen returns to Montreal's underbelly—expect sequins, scars, and zero apologies.
A TV film staging of Michel Tremblay's play "Sainte Carmen de la Main" by André Brassard.
Acting
Michelle Rossignol's Carmen commands every frame with wounded ferocity.
Direction
Brassard preserves Tremblay's theatrical intimacy without flattening it.
Director
André Brassard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tremblay wrote this in 1976, placing queer Montreal life center stage decades before mainstream acceptance. The Main (Saint Laurent Boulevard) was Canada's skid row, home to marginalized communities Tremblay refused to romanticize.
Brassard and Tremblay were longtime collaborators; this 1990 film version came after twenty years of staging the play, capturing a performance tradition already legendary in Quebec theatre.
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