Catalog Search Results
1) Balconville
Author
Description
In Canada's first bilingual play, an award-winning classic, the English and the French-Canadian working class take on the Establishment. Three families and the neighborhood delivery boy sit on balconies in the heat of a Montreal summer, forced to listen to election promises in both languages from the broadcast truck of Gaétan Bolduc, who is running for re-election for the Liberals.
2) Motherhouse
Author
Description
There's no way we shoulda been arrested for sabotaging the war effort … trying to organize a strike … But if you really wanted to arrest somebody, you could go down to the British Munitions Factory and charge them with murder … cuz that's what it was. Making us work all these long, crazy hours was bound to kill somebody. From the renowned author of Balconville, this powerful drama gives a voice to the disillusioned working-class women employed...
Author
Description
Set in a hotel bar in Montreal on Remembrance Day, Bolsheviki has World War I veteran Harry Rosie" Rollins telling young reporter Jerry Nines about his experience in the trenches. Rollins recalls men pissing their pants, losing limbs, and planning a revolt against their officers. The character of Rosie Rollins is based on World War I veteran Harry "Rosie" Rowbottom, who was wounded at Vimy Ridge. Fennario taped an interview with Rowbottom in 1979...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Flagstaff City Coconino County Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request