Hints and tips:
...Gwenaël Drapeau, composer, musician and drummer, masked and swathed in extravagant robes, cuts a kabuki silhouette and behaves like a puppet-master Prospero, taking the performers’ breathings and noises...
...Outside the hotel where Dominique Strauss-Kahn — who was arrested late Saturday — is alleged to have attacked a maid: a forlorn drapeau tricolore. H/T: the FT’s Barney Jopson....
...Staging the plays back to back, with shared set components and actors, creates interesting echoes between heroines consumed by obsessive love (Déjanire, played by Sylvie Drapeau), thirst for justice (Antigone...
...So said Montreal’s mayor Jean Drapeau after the city’s winning bid to host the 1976 games. Mr Drapeau’s words have gone down in history as a testament to Olympic hubris....
...Jean Drapeau, former Montreal mayor, said in 1973 that the Olympics “can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby”. Cost overruns on the 1976 Montreal Games quickly proved him wrong....
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