Bøger af David Fennario

This prophetic, political drama delivers the powerful and cathartic stillbirth of a nation. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

A one-man-show in which Fennario recounts the phenomenon of taking his bilingual play, "Balconville," to Belfast. Cast of 1 man.

In 1876, Jack the Ripper, otherwise known as Canadian Doctor Thomas Neill Cream, graduated with merit from McGill's faculty of medicine. Cream was a backstreet abortionist and managed 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. Doctor Thomas Neill Cream mixes fact and speculation with its cast of unlikely characters: khaki-covered union organizers - the good guys; five white-faced "zombies" representing such illustrious "Founding Fathers of Confederation" and distinguished members of the McGill fraternity as Sir Hugh Allan, Sir William Dawson, Sir William Osler and Lord Strathcona - the victors; and their young prostitutes - the victims. Intended as a cultural exorcism, playwright David Fennario charges with murder the capitalists who are now paraded through our history books as nation-builders. Past evil is paralleled in the present.

Desperately poor immigrants find refuge with Montreal's legendary barkeep, Joe Beef. Cast of 5 women and 5 men.

In Canadas first bilingual play, an award-winning classic, the English and the French-Canadian working class take on the Establishment. Three families and the neighbourhood 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 Gatan Bolduc, who is running for re-election for the Liberals.

Working-class survivors of the 1960s stage a workers' sit-down strike. Cast of 9 men.

On Christmas Eve the workers in a Montreal shipping room get drunk and go on strike. Cast of 8 men.