BLUES NÈGRE DANS UNE CHAMBRE ROSE

So many times I watched you on late night TV, you were appearing everywhere, playing your frenzied songs. You were so good, a virtuoso, so adored; not yet worshipped, but loved. I was just a little girl sitting in front of a little TV set on the other side of a somewhat racist Quebec, but three decades later there you were by my side, in this charming little room in New Orleans, and you took my pink breasts into your beautiful black mouth, and it felt so right, like it was meant to be. In order to get over her love for him, Fanny Murray writes to Bobo Ako in a journal she will never show him. Thinking she has finally moved on to a new stage in her life, Bobo ensnares her yet again. Or is it she that has captured him? Jennifer Tremblay is a screenwriter, editor, novelist, and playwright. In 2008 she was awarded the Governor General's Award for her play The List, which has been translated into many languages and performed around the world.