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Nothing to Lose
Nothing to Lose
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Author: David Fennario Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 136 Pub. Date: 1977 ISBN-10: 0889221219 ISBN-13: 9780889221215 Cast Size: 9 male
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About the Play:
Nothing to Lose is a full-length drama by David Fennario. Three friends gather on their lunch hour to reminisce. An old friend turned radical playwright shows up. When one of the men challenges his abusive foreman, they take the advice of the playwright and launch a sit-down strike. From the renowned author of Balconville, the second of his
intensely Montréal-centric plays.
Nothing to Lose is set in a tavern in the Point Saint Charles working class district of Montréal, where three friends gather on their lunch hour and reminisce about the past. They are survivors of a decade. One is Jerry Nines, a writer who has had some success, having written a novel and a hit play. The others are Jackie Robinson and Frank Saladini, old friends of Jerry's from the Point. They work in a warehouse across the street. During the course of their reunion, Jackie leaves his truck parked at the loading dock of the warehouse and fights the foreman, actions which precipitate a worker's sit-down strike which David Fennario uses as a demand for workers' control of industry.
Nothing to Lose premiered in 1976 at the
venerable Centaur Theatre, the
oldest English-language theatre in Montréal.
Cast: 9 male
What people say:
"Restores one's faith in theatre as a medium of continuing vitality and relevance." — Southam News Service
"When a final
analysis is made of twentieth-century Canadian theater, the most
significant political playwright will undoubtedly be David
Fennario." — Canadian Book Review
About the Playwright:
David
Fennario is an anglophone playwright and a novelist born David
Wiper in Montréal. He grew up and still lives in the working class
district of Verdun-Pointe St. Charles, and zoomed from obscurity to
national fame in 1979 with his play Balconville. His pen name,
given to him by a girlfriend, was part of a Bob Dylan song,
Pretty Peggy-O. He worked in a number of small jobs before he
enrolled in Dawson College. With his teachers encouragement, he
developed and fine tuned his creative writing skills. He was the
first writer-in-residence at Montréal's Centaur Theatre, has won the
Chalmers award twice, and received the Prix Pauline Julien from the
United Steelworkers' Union.
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