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''Hosanna'' is a 1973 play by French-Canadian writer Michel Tremblay. The story takes place in Montreal, Quebec and centres on the relationship between Hosanna, a drag queen dressed as Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra, and Cuirette, an aging "stud" and homosexual biker. This play takes place in Hosanna's apartment, "somewhere in the Plaza Saint-Hubert", after she and Cuirette have returned from a Halloween party.〔Tremblay, Michel. ''Hosanna'' Trans. Van Burek, John; Glassco, Bill (Vancouver: Talon Books, 1974) 7.〕 The play deals with several issues including gender identity, sexual identity, the ignorance and acceptance of ageing, and social expressions of homosexuality. Hosanna discusses her relationship with her mother and shows her anxieties over her knowledge of who she really is. The scholar and activist Viviane Namaste has criticized ''Hosanna'', which ends with its protagonist identifying as a gay man after a series of humiliations, as reinforcing a patriarchal, transphobic ideology in which a "reliance on the ideas of illusion, deception, and betrayal presupposes that we as transgendered people do not know who we are. () It is through such a violently anti-transgendered discourse that Tremblay enables gay male subject-positions.".〔Namaste, Viviane K. ''Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People''. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000) 115〕 The play was translated into English by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco. ''Hosanna'' was first performed at le Théâtre de Quat'sous in Montreal, Quebec, on 10 May 1973. ''Hosanna'' was first performed in English at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, on 15 May 1974. ''Hosanna'' then appeared on Broadway in New York City at the Bijou Theatre on 14 October 1974. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hosanna (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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