Balconville
Balconville Author: David Fennario
First Performance: 1979, Montreal
Published: 1980
Genre: Drama in 2 acts; English and Canadian French
Setting: Working-class tenement, Montreal, 1970s
Cast: 5m, 4f
In the working-class area of Pointe-St-Charles, the inhabitants, who cannot afford to go on vacation, spend the hot summers on their balconies, where they can observe and be observed. The lives of three families are shown. The French-speaking Claude Paquette works in an unfulfilling job, but is devastated when he loses it in Act 2. He has an attractive daughter Diane, whom he enjoys fondling, and who is forced to give up her studies when her father becomes unemployed. The English-speaking Tom Williams idles away his time waiting for an unemployment insurance cheque and dreams about his former brief career as a minor...
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