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{{Short description|Canadian playwright (1947–2023)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> A committed Marxist, Fennario was a candidate for the [[Union des forces progressistes (Canada)|Union des forces progressistes]] in [[2003 Quebec general election|2003]] and for [[Québec solidaire]] in [[2007 Quebec general election|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.''<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a [[Bob Dylan]] song, "Pretty Peggy-O."<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Fennario died on 16 September 2023, at the age of 76.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==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 (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 |&ndash;}}
{{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 |&ndash;|&ndash;}}
{{CANelec/hold|QC|Liberal|-5.18}}
{{end}}

{{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}}
|-
{{CANelec |QC |UFP |David Fennario |718 |3.14 |&ndash;}}
|-
{{CANelec|QC|Bloc Pot|David John Proctor|223|0.98|&ndash;}}
{{CANelec|QC|Equality|Don Donderi|182	|0.80|-1.15}}
|-
{{CANelec|QC|People's Front|Diane Johnston|64|0.28|+0.11}}
|}

==Further reading==
Bowman, Martin (1982), ''Interview with David Fennario'', in ''[[Cencrastus]]'' No. 8, Spring 1982, pp.&nbsp;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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