The play Carole Fréchette wrote inspired by her own anguish, fear and desire is The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs. It brings us characters that we find inside ourselves, that speak of our anguish, fears and buried desires. “Yes, of course, ‘Bluebeard’ was an inspiration, but what attracted me was the beauty of this tale, its simplicity. “As soon as I read ‘Bluebeard’ again, I knew I wanted to write a play based on this simple story, and I knew that it was going to begin with a woman standing in front of a closed door,” remembers Carole. The struggle reminded her of the French folk tale “Bluebeard', written over 300 years ago by Charles Perrault, in which a young lady is warned by her husband that she can open all the doors in the castle, except one. She had reached a place in her personal and professional life where she could choose many different paths, but the only path she wanted to pursue was forbidden. A few years back, Canadian playwright Carole Fréchette stood at a turning point.
