SOURCE: "Sins of the Father," in Books in Canada, Vol. 15, No. 1, January-February, 1986, pp. 20-2.

In the following review, Strunk finds Remember Me "a fine monodramatic miniature."

[Remember Me is the translation] of Michel Tremblay's Les Anciennes Odeurs (1981), a one-act piece that explores the anxieties of two homosexual but not very gay ex-lovers ambushed by their mid-life crisis and the growing suspicion of their mediocrity. The mode is, or appears to be, relentlessly confessional: if it weren't for the pregnant silences that would have done Harold Pinter proud, the two figures would have talked themselves to death. Visually highlighting the confessional mode is the focal point of the piece, a large, wornout leather armchair in and in front of which Luc and Jean-Marc alternatively sit and kneel as they demonstrate strate that the need for affection is mutual.

The two had been living together for several years until the...