David Fennario
1) Balconville
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In Canada's first bilingual play, an award-winning classic, the English and the French-Canadian working class take on the Establishment. Three families and the neighborhood delivery boy sit on balconies in the heat of a Montreal summer, forced to listen to election promises in both languages from the broadcast truck of Gaétan Bolduc, who is running for re-election for the Liberals.
2) Motherhouse
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There's no way we shoulda been arrested for sabotaging the war effort … trying to organize a strike … But if you really wanted to arrest somebody, you could go down to the British Munitions Factory and charge them with murder … cuz that's what it was. Making us work all these long, crazy hours was bound to kill somebody. From the renowned author of Balconville, this powerful drama gives a voice to the disillusioned working-class women employed...
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Set in a hotel bar in Montreal on Remembrance Day, Bolsheviki has World War I veteran Harry Rosie" Rollins telling young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs, and planning a revolt against their officers. The character of Rosie Rollins is based on World War I veteran Harry "Rosie" Rowbottom, who was wounded at Vimy Ridge. Fennario taped an interview with Rowbottom in 1979...