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Joe Beef
Desperately poor immigrants find refuge with Montreal’s legendary barkeep, Joe Beef. Cast of five women and five men.
- GenresCooking
104 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
About the author
David Fennario
17 booksDavid William Fennario, (born David Wiper) is 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. 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.
His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, Pretty Peggy-O.
His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, Pretty Peggy-O.
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July 25, 2024
How I would have love to see this on stage…
An incredibly sarcastic, insightful and kind of funny play about Pointe Saint Charles, a neighbourhood in Montréal, around the 1800s. It portrays the realities of the rich anglophones and how they built the city of Montréal. I loved how French was mixed with English, creating a colourful story of identities.
Fennario paints a vivid and satirical portrait of these men that lived in those days. They could not have cared less of the people (especially the "frogs", the Irish and the African-Americans) but they did care a LOT about the money.
"Money, money, money, money
Must be funny
In a rich man’s world…"
An incredibly sarcastic, insightful and kind of funny play about Pointe Saint Charles, a neighbourhood in Montréal, around the 1800s. It portrays the realities of the rich anglophones and how they built the city of Montréal. I loved how French was mixed with English, creating a colourful story of identities.
Fennario paints a vivid and satirical portrait of these men that lived in those days. They could not have cared less of the people (especially the "frogs", the Irish and the African-Americans) but they did care a LOT about the money.
"Money, money, money, money
Must be funny
In a rich man’s world…"
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