The Anorak
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The Anorak is a play about the École Polytechnique massacre
and the life and death of Marc Lépine
written by Adam Kelly
. The play is a 90 minute dramatic monologue
told from the killer's point of view. In the performances, audience members are separated between men and women, with the actor speaking to the men exclusively for the first 80 minutes. Only during the detailed description of the massacre are the women in the audience addressed.
The play has been critically acclaimed and was awarded a Montreal English Critics Circle Award (MECCA).
A French translation of the play by Geneviève Charbonneau was performed for the 20th anniversary of the massacre at Université de Montréal
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École Polytechnique massacre
The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, was a hate crime perpetrated on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Twenty-five-year-old Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi, who had changed his name to Marc Lépine, armed with a legally obtained...
and the life and death of Marc Lépine
Marc Lépine
Marc Lépine was a 25-year-old man from Montreal, Canada who murdered fourteen women and wounded ten women and four men at the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in the "École Polytechnique massacre", also known as the "Montreal Massacre".Lépine...
written by Adam Kelly
Adam Kelly
Adam Kelly is a Canadian actor, writer, producer and teacher.-Background:Born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district of Montreal, Kelly grew up in Pierrefonds....
. The play is a 90 minute dramatic monologue
Dramatic monologue
M. H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry:-Types of monologues:One of the most important influences on the development of the dramatic monologue is the Romantic poets...
told from the killer's point of view. In the performances, audience members are separated between men and women, with the actor speaking to the men exclusively for the first 80 minutes. Only during the detailed description of the massacre are the women in the audience addressed.
The play has been critically acclaimed and was awarded a Montreal English Critics Circle Award (MECCA).
A French translation of the play by Geneviève Charbonneau was performed for the 20th anniversary of the massacre at Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
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