ISBN:
9780889221451
Pages: 128 pp
Pub. Date:
January 1 1980
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.4375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Drama / DRA013000
- DRAMA / Canadian
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.
Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
Winner 1980 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
David Fennario
Anglophone playwright born David Wiper in Montreal, Quebec, 1947. He was raised in the working-class district of Pointe-St-Charles, an area he would make the centre of most of his plays.
