Playwright and cast in Verdun
(l-r standing: Lucie Beaudoin, designer, Charlebois, Marie-Christine Legault,
Ernest Plitong, Jacoba Knaapen, Fennario, Jim Murchison; Bob Barnard)
Mounting FennarioA young company makes noise even as it says farewell
by Gaëtan L. Charlebois
[Ed: This is the first of an occasional series of first-person pieces on moments in Canadian Theatre's past. Anyone wishing to write a memoir for The Charlebois Post, please contact us.]
It was the last big hey-day of English-language theatre in Montreal. It was the end of the 70s and we had two major newspapers (therefore two critics who, it was suspected, despised each other), weeklies in every small town on the Island and radio and television was local and covered the arts. The possibilities, for a young theatre company, were enormous and every kid coming out of theatre school had a place to go (if not a salary to live on).
It was the last big hey-day of English-language theatre in Montreal. It was the end of the 70s and we had two major newspapers (therefore two critics who, it was suspected, despised each other), weeklies in every small town on the Island and radio and television was local and covered the arts. The possibilities, for a young theatre company, were enormous and every kid coming out of theatre school had a place to go (if not a salary to live on).
