Paperback / softback
ISBN:
9780889221451
Pages: 128
Pub. Date:
January 1 1980
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.4375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
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Balconville is Canada's first bilingual play. Three families and Thibault, the neighbourhood rubbie, sit on their balconies in the heat of a Montreal summer. It is election time and Gaétan Bolduc is running for re-election for the Liberals. His broadcast truck roams the streets making election promises in English and in French, and playing the music of Elvis Presley. The English and the French-Canadian working class take on the Establishment in this award-winning play.
Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
Winner 1980 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
“The bilingual nature of the drama makes it a great play instead of a good one, but the setting itself could be anywhere. Balconville is a work of genius. It’s angry, bitter, cruel and funny. It’s a real vision of this country—and even more rare—it’s a moment when bilingualism has found a voice.”
—Globe and Mail
