Synopses & Reviews
Balconville is Canadas first bilingual play. Three families and Thibault, the neighbourhood delivery boy, 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.
Review
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. Its angry, bitter, cruel and funny. Its a real vision of this countryand even more rareits a moment when bilingualism has found a voice.”
Globe and Mail
Review
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. Its angry, bitter, cruel and funny. Its a real vision of this countryand even more rareits a moment when bilingualism has found a voice.”
Globe and Mail
Montreal plus vrai que vrai.”
Jacques Larue-Langlois, Le Devoir
A thoroughly dishevelled and thoroughly irresistible play. Our politicians may solemnly meditate and pontificate over matters constitutional, but for the real nitty-gritty on French-English relationships maybe we should turn our attention to Montreal playwright David Fennario. Balconville is not about issues. It's about people.”
Jamie Portman, Southam News Service
Synopsis
The English and French working class get together on their balconies in Montreal. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
Synopsis
Canada's first bilingual play set on the balconies of Montreal one hot July. Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
About the Author
David FennarioAnglophone 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.