David Fennario | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1947-04-26)26 April 1947 |
| Died | 16 September 2023(2023-09-16) (aged 76) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Notable work | Balconville |
David William Fennario (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947 – 16 September 2023) was a Canadian playwright, best known for Balconville (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.[1] A committed Marxist, Fennario was a candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in 2003 and for Québec solidaire in 2007. He has been the subject of two National Film Board of Canada documentaries, David Fennario's Banana Boots and Fennario: His World On Stage.[2]
His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, "Pretty Peggy-O."[3]
Fennario died on 16 September 2023, at the age of 76.[4]
Works
- Without a Parachute (1972) (journals)
- On the Job (1976) (play)
- Nothing to Lose (1977) (play)
- Balconville (1979) (play)
- Joe Beef (1984) (play; based on the life and times of Joe Beef)
- Doctor Thomas Neill Cream (1988) (play)
- The Murder of Susan Parr (1989) (play)
- The Death of René Lévesque (1991) (play)
- Gargoyles (1997) (play)
- Banana Boots (1998) (play)
- Condoville (2005) (play)
- Bolsheviki (2010) (play)
- Motherhouse (2014) (play)
Electoral record
| 2007 Quebec general election: Verdun | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Henri-François Gautrin | 12,204 | 40.94 | -11.58 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Richard Langlais | 8,688 | 29.15 | -1.23 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Sylvie Tremblay | 5,239 | 17.58 | +6.27 | ||||
| Green | Pierre-Yves McSween | 1,868 | 6.27 | +3.99 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | David Fennario | 1,430 | 4.80 | +3.52* | ||||
| Christian Democracy | Gilles Noël | 118 | 0.40 | +0.04 | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Sala Samghour | 106 | 0.36 | -0.88 | ||||
| Independent | Robert Lindblad | 80 | 0.27 | +0.08 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Normand Fournier | 74 | 0.25 | -0.01 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 29,807 | 99.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 302 | 1.00 | -0.33 | |||||
| Turnout | 30,109 | 64.45 | +1.44 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 46,714 | – | – | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -5.18 | ||||||
| 2003 Quebec general election: Westmount–Saint-Louis | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Jacques Chagnon | 18,330 | 80.23 | +1.06 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Denise Laroche | 2,372 | 10.38 | -3.52 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Nathalie Beaupré | 959 | 4.20 | +0.73 | ||||
| UFP | David Fennario | 718 | 3.14 | – | ||||
| Bloc Pot | David John Proctor | 223 | 0.98 | – | ||||
| Equality | Don Donderi | 182 | 0.80 | -1.15 | ||||
| People's Front | Diane Johnston | 64 | 0.28 | +0.11 | ||||
Further reading
Bowman, Martin (1982), Interview with David Fennario, in Cencrastus No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 6 – 8, ISSN 0264-0856
References
- Freeman, Alan (27 September 2023). "Montreal playwright David Fennario of Balconville fame gave the city's working-class anglophones a voice". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- "The David Fennario Package". NFB Online Collection. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - "Fennario, David". The Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Athabaska University. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- "Montreal playwright David Fennario has died". CTV News. 18 September 2023. Archived from the original on 20 September 2023. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
External links
- Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia article
- Literary Encyclopedia article
- Watch David Fennario's Banana Boots at NFB.ca