Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy
Quebec -based playwright and founder of the Festival de théâtre de par chez nous, at the Caveau-théâtre de Trois-Pistoles (where many of his works are premiered). He was born Lévy Beaulieu and took the name Victor as a tribute to Victor Hugo.
His plays show a concern for the passing of Quebec values and history. He has also written for television and manages a publishing firm, VLB, which published the first works of, among others, Michel Garneau and Marie Laberge .
No stranger to controversy, when his work, La Maison Cassée (which also played the Café de la Place des Arts ), was premiered he announced that it was part of his battle to take Quebec theatre back from the "tapettes" (fairies; homosexuals). He also settled a lawsuit for libel against him stemming from his accusations that another television series had stolen ideas from his own Montréal, PQ.
His festival, created in 1994 to showcase the works of local artists, remains popular with some 1500 participants at the eight shows over the four-day festival in 1995. In 1999, for reasons of ill health, he decided to sell the Trois-Pistoles cultural complex he had created.
Sources: "L'écrivain aux initiales" by Robert Chartrand, Le Devoir, Montreal, November 24, 2001
Last updated 2006-08-30
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