Les Canadiens begins on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when a French-Canadian soldier throws his rifle to his son and it becomes a hockey stick. It ends in the Montreal Forum on the night of November 15, 1976, when Montreal Canadien fans turn a hockey game into an election victory rally for the ind pendantiste Parti Qu b cois. In between, it is a play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor--and a play about hockey using Quebec and...