An interview with Diane D'Aquila and Laara Sadiq from Canadian Stage's Saint Carmen of The Main, playing until March 5 at the Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front St. E.
A country singer and darling of Montreal's seedy red-light district, Carmen triumphantly returns to her old haunts after a visit to Nashville to hone her craft. Doing away with bleedin' hearts and lonesome nights, Carmen now sings about the people in her audience: hustlers and whores who for the first time become the heroes of these songs, not just the witless consumers. This mythic tale of a nightclub singer who dares make art from the lives of those on the fringes of society is a seminal play from Canada's best-known playwright.
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