Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-soeurs still singing at 50

It has been 50 years since the 15 ladies of Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-soeurs began lamenting their “maudite vie plate” in a Rue Fabre apartment. Since that first production, directed by André Brassard in August 1968 at Théâtre du Rideau Vert, the show has played all over the world in countless languages, including Yiddish, Japanese and Scots, the latter in a celebrated 1989 version called The Guid Sisters (which Serge Denoncourt directed in Edinburgh in 2