Did you ever dream of winning big? Well, Germaine Lauzon certainly has and she can now proudly boast of her lucky windfall! A million trading stamps have just been delivered to her brownstone apartment, but before she can redeem them for wonderful prizes, she must first paste her winnings into hundreds of booklets – an enormous task for just one Québecois housewife to handle. To this end, she invites into her kitchen, members of her family, her closest friends and a few neighbours, and puts the women to work on the booklets, with only water and chips to keep them going. As they set about to complete the lip-smacking, painstaking task, their stories and gossip reveal their humour and spirit, until it becomes apparent that lurking near the surface of each woman is a darker aspect of herself. Tension and jealousy arise between the women, culminating in a charged finale that is both vaudevillian and tragic. Written in 1965, Michel Tremblay’s tragicomedy, Les Belles Soeurs, has become a critically acclaimed work on the international stage, both for the strength of its female characters, as well as for the starkness of the text’s social politics.