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    You Are Happy
    You Are Happy
    You Are Happy
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    You Are Happy

    By Rébecca Déraspe

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    Bridget finds her brother Jeremy in a closet attempting suicide. Again. Determined to help him find some kind of happiness, she carts around grocery stores looking for his potential wife. Bridget’s search affirms what she already thinks: there are couples practically everywhere. Eventually finding her way into the aisle with the razor blades, she meets Chloe and her plans to stage a happily-ever-after are finally set.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateApr 4, 2016
    ISBN9781770915404
    You Are Happy
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    Rébecca Déraspe

    Rébecca Déraspe is the author of the acclaimed plays Le Radeau, Plus (+) que toi, Votre crucifixion, Peau d’ours (a finalist for the Prix Michel-Tremblay), Le merveilleux voyage de Réal de Montréal, and Nino. She was a member of the writing collective for Ceci est un meurtre, which premiered in 2015. Rébecca also works as a screenwriter, and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

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      You Are Happy - Rébecca Déraspe

      Contents

      Production History

      Characters

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      VII

      VIII

      IX

      X

      XI

      XII

      XIII

      XIV

      XV

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Copyright

      To Write of Love

      translated from Rébecca Déraspe’s

      author’s notes

      Writing of love

      Means making do

      And laughing

      At others

      At myself

      At you

      And seeing the sickly sweet conceit of lovers

      And loving that, too

      Writing of love is no joke

      Or else too much of one

      Because love has the face of a big tacky diva

      But one we listen to

      Behind closed doors

      Writing of love means searching for the humanity inside the caricature

      When Les Biches Pensives approached me to write about being single

      About being a couple

      About intimate life in the face of the outside world

      I wanted

      To write for Love

      Making it see itself

      In the acid of my words

      Making it laugh at itself

      This Love

      That thinks it can get away with anything

      And takes itself so seriously

      Deux ans de votre vie premiered in Montreal on August 16, 2011, at the Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, under the artistic direction of Marie-Thérèse Fortin. The play was commissioned and produced by Les Biches Pensives. It featured the following cast and creative team:

      You Are Happy, translated by Leanna Brodie, was given a public reading (under its working title, It’ll Never Last) in Vancouver on May 18, 2014, during the Ta Gueule Festival held by BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective, as part of Up in the Air Theatre’s rEvolver Arts Festival at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (The Cultch). The translation was commissioned and presented by Ruby Slippers Theatre under the artistic direction of Diane Brown. It was supported by the Theatre International Program of the Canada Council for the Arts. It featured the following cast and creative team:

      Characters

      Jeremy

      Bridget

      Chloe

      I

      JEREMY

      Hi

      It’s all over

      When it’s gotten this bad

      It has to stop

      I mean

      I can’t

      Right now you are inside a closet

      My sister’s, actually

      Face squashed between her turquoise skirts

      And her upscalerrific dresses

      As you can see it’s pretty cramped in here

      I’m sitting on a box full of sunflower knick-knacks

      I’m squeezed in so tight my knees are in my mouth

      It smells of stale perfume

      You hear me sneeze

      And you’re concerned

      Dust allergy

      But don’t worry about me

      I won’t be here for long

      Oh no!

      You see the rope I’m holding in my hand

      And now

      You’re getting the picture

      It’s a thick sailing rope type thing

      I stole it from the quay

      At the marina

      I do some sailing, you know

      I’m a guy who’s super-qualified to go out on the water

      It’s over

      You’ll be the witnesses to

      My suicide

      You can tell the story afterwards at those dinner

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