DAVID FENNARIO (1947 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by David Fennario
Balconville |
| 1st Produced: | Centaur Theatre, Montreal | 1979 | ||
| Company: | Centaur Theatre Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, Vancouver | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: Three families and the neighbourhood drunk sit on their balconies in the Montreal summer. It is election time and Gaetan Bolduc drives around making promises that infuriate the families and their friends. As a result, we see the English and French Canadian working class take on the establishment. Winner, 1979 Chalmers Canadian Play Award | ||||
Banana Boots |
| 1st Produced: | Annex Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. | 1994 | ||
| Company: | Mixed Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC | 1998 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A one-man show/memoir in which Fennario recounts the phenomenon of taking his famous bilingual play Balconville, to Belfast on a British/Canadian cultural mission. | ||||
Changes |
| 1st Produced: | Ottawa | 1980 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | One-man show | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Author's personal story of becoming streetwise amongst the ethnic and language divides of Montreal. | ||||
Death Of Ren Lvesque, The |
| 1st Produced: | Montreal | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC | - | ||
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Synopsis: Examination of the changes to the separatist movement in Quebec in an anniversary celebration of the death of its most charismatic leader. | ||||
Doctor Thomas Neill Cream ( Mystery at McGill) |
| 1st Produced: | Mixed Company, Toronto | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC | - | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: In 1876, Jack the Ripper, otherwise known as Canadian Doctor Thomas Neil Cream, graduated with merit from McGill's faculty of medicine. Cream was a backstreet abortionist and manages an exclusive brothel called The Elite Club. His notorious reputation eventually forced him to flee Canada for London. He was hanged in 1892 for the murder of four prostitutes | ||||
Joe Beef |
| 1st Produced: | Blackrock Community Group, Montreal, Quebec. | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, Vancouver | 1991 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
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Synopsis: A revisionist history of Montreal presented by the innkeeper who fed a thousand families during the strike in1887. A tough political satire that throws a mean left uppercut at the privileged classes. | ||||
Moving |
| 1st Produced: | Montreal | 1983 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Murder Of Susan Parr, The |
| 1st Produced: | Montreal | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Synopsis: Depicts the break up and splintering of the local Pointe St. Charles Community in Montreal. | ||||
Nothing To Lose |
| 1st Produced: | Centaur Theatre, Montreal | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, Vancouver | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: In a tavern in the Point Saint Charles district of Montreal, three friends gather on their lunch hour to reminisce. An old friend turned radical playwright shows up at the bar. When one of the men challenges his abusive foreman, they take the advice of the playwright and launch a sit-down strike | ||||
On The Job |
| 1st Produced: | Centaur Theatre, Montreal | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, Vancouver | 1976 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Christmas Eve 1970. The workers at a Montreal dress factory, frustrated by lack of job opportunities and emboldened by smuggled liquor, go on strike. The gesture proves futile and they wind up at home, jobless, with nothing to show but their Christmas bonuses. | ||||
Toronto |
| 1st Produced: | Centaur Theatre, Montreal | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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Without A Parachute |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
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