A 3D theatre in the Canadian West

In this article, Nicole Nolette explores the potential of the concept of "supportive differentiation" for the intertextual analysis of the French-language literatures of Ontario and Western Canada. The "three D's" of French-speaking Ontario (Patrice Desbiens, Robert Dickson and Jean Marc Dalpe), rejected by the generation of Louis Patrick Leroux, reappear in the dramatic work of Marc Prescott in Manitoba and Gilles Poulin-Denis, a native of Saskatchewan. Nicole Nolette identifies the traces of the three D's in the language, highway, mining town and animals represented by Prescott and Poulin-Denis to demonstrate how the literary solidarity of French-speaking communities in western Canada and Ontario can also indicate regional differentiation.