When I was invited by Buddies to reflect on Lilies; I was excited. I had heard about Cole Alvis directing this work through lemonTree creations but I had never seen the original production. As I did not know the story, …
When I first saw the full cast, in the opening scenes of Lilies; Or, The Revival of a Romantic Drama, I was able to see myself represented on stage. Watching Lillies / Les Feluettes as queer teen, I liked the …
Michel Marc Bouchard’s 1987 play Lilies Or, The Revival of a Romantic Drama (Les Feluettes) is getting a reimagining to help close off Buddies’ 40th anniversary season. This new production of Lilies, a play set in a Quebec prison in …
Michel Marc Bouchard’s script is and has always been a theatrical gift to the queer community: a complex, affecting, timeless story of starcrossed lovers, with queer characters, queer conflicts, and queer ways of knowing. Written in the 1980s, set in …