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Today in Toronto: La Sagouine

By Toronto Life

| May 18, 2010

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La Sagouine: Viola Léger can’t be faulted for consistency. The 80-year-old former New Brunswick senator has performed the title role—a washerwoman—in Antonine Maillet’s Acadian masterwork some 1,400 times, in French and English. She’ll do the same in Toronto for the first time since 1979 as part of this Pleiades Theatre production. Find out more >>

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