Impromptu on Nuns' Island Author:Michel Tremblay An opera diva, Patricia, (almost fifty) meets her Waterloo singing Salomé at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. In an impromptu get-together in her Nun's Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Europe, her mother, a popular Montreal stage and television actress (pushing seventy), and her idealistic committed-to-new-work daughter (pushing... more » 30) goad her: What is the sense of an international career if your art doesn't contribute to change (or at least to wide-spread pleasure and inspiration) in the society you live in? An international opera star lives in hotel rooms around the world, so what is the meaning (and the impact) of her art, and on what, or who's society? Is Patricia right in thinking that in this age of globalization an artist who chooses to stay home is doomed to mediocrity? These questions, this tri-generational drama, are framed by the diva's gay pianist who packs his bags and comes running to accompany her, whenever and wherever she callsˇ Governor General's Award nominee, 2002« less