David Fennario
{{Short description|Canadian playwright (1947–2023)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|9|16|1947|4|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| notable_works = Balconville
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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.{{cite web |last1=Freeman |first1=Alan |title=Montreal playwright David Fennario of Balconville fame gave the city's working-class anglophones a voice |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-balconville-playwright-david-fennario-gave-voice-to-working-class/ |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=15 April 2024 |date=27 September 2023}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=33533 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908004347/http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=33533 |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 September 2012 |title=The David Fennario Package |accessdate=15 March 2008 |work=NFB Online Collection }}
His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, "Pretty Peggy-O."{{cite web |title=Fennario, David |url=https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Fennario%2C%20David |website=The Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia |publisher=Athabaska University |access-date=10 September 2022}}
Fennario died on 16 September 2023, at the age of 76.{{cite web|url=https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-playwright-david-fennario-has-died-1.6566567|title=Montreal playwright David Fennario has died|website=CTV News|date=18 September 2023|access-date=18 September 2023}}
Works
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- 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)
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Electoral record
{{Canadian election result/top|QC|2007|Verdun (provincial electoral district)|Verdun|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|QC|Liberal |Henri-François Gautrin |12,204|40.94|-11.58}}
{{CANelec|QC|PQ|Richard Langlais |8,688|29.15|-1.23}}
{{CANelec|QC|ADQ|Sylvie Tremblay |5,239|17.58|+6.27}}
{{CANelec|QC|Green |Pierre-Yves McSween |1,868|6.27|+3.99}}
{{CANelec|QC|Québec solidaire|David Fennario |1,430|4.80|+3.52*}}
{{CANelec|QC|PDCQ|Gilles Noël |118|0.40|+0.04}}
{{CANelec|QC|Bloc Pot|Sala Samghour |106|0.36|-0.88}}
{{CANelec|XX|Independent|Robert Lindblad |80|0.27|+0.08}}
{{CANelec|QC|Marxist-Leninist |Normand Fournier |74|0.25|-0.01}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes|29,807 |99.00 |–}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|302 |1.00 |-0.33}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|30,109 |64.45 |+1.44}}
{{Canadian election result/total|Electors on the lists|46,714 |–|–}}
{{CANelec/hold|QC|Liberal|-5.18}}
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{{Canadian election result/top|QC|2003|Westmount–Saint-Louis|percent=yes|change=yes}}
{{CANelec|QC|Liberal |Jacques Chagnon |18,330|80.23|+1.06}}
{{CANelec|QC|PQ|Denise Laroche |2,372|10.38|-3.52}}
{{CANelec|QC|ADQ|Nathalie Beaupré|959|4.20|+0.73}}
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{{CANelec |QC |UFP |David Fennario |718 |3.14 |–}}
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{{CANelec|QC|Bloc Pot|David John Proctor|223|0.98|–}}
{{CANelec|QC|Equality|Don Donderi|182 |0.80|-1.15}}
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{{CANelec|QC|People's Front|Diane Johnston|64|0.28|+0.11}}
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Further reading
Bowman, Martin (1982), Interview with David Fennario, in Cencrastus No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 6 - 8, {{issn|0264-0856}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Fennario%2C%20David Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia article]
- [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1499 Literary Encyclopedia article]
- [http://www.nfb.ca/film/david_fennarios_banana_boots/ Watch David Fennario's Banana Boots at NFB.ca]
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Category:Union des forces progressistes (Canada) politicians
Category:Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French
Category:Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers
Category:21st-century Canadian male writers
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