The Tale Of Teeka
by Michel Marc Bouchard

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Readers have mixed opinions about the play, with some finding it deeply touching while others express confusion. The emotional impact resonates well with a segment of the audience, though clarity seems to be an issue for some.

Emotionally impactfulHighly praisedTouching storytellingConfusing for some viewers

Synopsis

Rural Quebec in the fifties.

A battered child, Maurice, has taken refuge in a fantasy world.

Alone on the farm one afternoon, he invites his pet goose, Teeka, into the house where his bedroom and the bathroom become the scene of some of Tarzan’s most terrifying adventures.

His parents unexpected return forces Maurice to commit a desperate and cruel act of violence.

The original production of L’Histoire de l’Oie

, toured by Théâtre des Deux Mondes in French, English, German and spanish, represented Canada at numerous international festivals and garnered rave reviews and several prizes in Dublin, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Limoges, London, Mexico City, Munich, Toronto, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Adapted for television by the playwright and directed by Tim Southam, L’Histoire de l’Oie / The Tale of Teeka was broadcast in French and English on the CBC / Radio Canada National Networks in the spring of 1999.

The production won the Banff Television Festival Telefilm Canada Award for Best Canadian English-Language Production.

Cast of 1 boy and 1 man

Publication

PublisherTalon Books
Year1999
BindingPaperback
Pages64
PlaceBurnaby, B.C
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780889224100
ISBN-100889224102
LCCN99458665
LCCPQ3919.2.B5855 H5713 1999
DCC842/.914

The Tale Of Teeka is a Canadian play written by Michel Marc Bouchard and published by Talon Books in Burnaby, B.C (1999).

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Talon Books · 1999 · 64 pp

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