Down Dangerous Passes Road

Ian C. Nelson is the former Assistant Director of Libraries (Collection
Management & Budget) at the University of Saskatchewan and Dramaturge
for the Festival de la Dramaturgie des Prairies.

Down Dangerous Passes Road is a haunting play about three brothers who
have taken a ride down a road to their family fishing camp 15 years to
the day after the death of their father. Details about their family
life, and about this fateful drive, crop up again and again to the
counterpoint of a repetitively poetic discrepancy in the chronology of
their watches. The emotions bleed out with increasing intensity. The
inevitable arrival at the conclusion of the play is brilliant.

Author of the award-winning Lilies (1997), Michel Marc Bouchard is one
of the most distinctive voices of contemporary Québécois theatre. Le
chemin des passes-dangereuses has been translated into German, Spanish,
and Italian. This English translation by Linda Gaboriau was nominated
for the Governor General’s Literary Award for translation.