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It's summertime, and eight French and English neighbours in
Montréal's Pointe St. Charles working-class neighbourhood cross
paths on their cramped duplex balconies. Here they lounge over
beers, dodge the bourgeois electoral candidate, commiserate
about wasted love, bicker about separatism and the Expos, and
dream about a better way.
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This is Balconville, David Fennario's award-winning bilingual
play which hit Montréal in 1979 with three separate productions,
continuing on to tour across Canada, Ireland and England. Balconville
rode the wave of 1970's populist anglo Canadian theatre, while
also delighting Quebecers with a representation of their interwoven,
rhetoric-defying daily lives. The mixture pulled in audiences
by the droves, including the Montréal Canadiens who showed up
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