With its screaming east end Montreal drag queens in hot pants and lace up sandals,
Il Etait une Fois dans L'est serves as an introduction to the world of Quebec playwright
Michel Tremblay. Long considered French Canada's leading playwright, Tremblay has
written almost exclusively about scathingly depressed working class women and exultantly
defiant drag queens.
Il Etait une Fois dans L'est mixes and matches characters and plot lines from several
of his plays.
“Out on Screen: The First Annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival,” 1989.
