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
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
By David Fennario
Winner 1980 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
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…
$17.95
Paperback / softback
ISBN:
9780889221451
Pages:128
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.4375"
Pub. Date:
January 1 1980
Drama / DRA013000
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