Tit-Coq was the first great success of the Quebec theater. Gratien GÔelinas, its author, who also played the title role in the creation in 1948, advocated a "national and popular" theater, whose piece is the perfect illustration. Twenty years before Michel tremblay, he made his characters speak in a language that the public could recognize as his own. And the story of his hero, who seeks to escape his destiny of "bastard", transcended the French-Canadian framework to reach the universal.