Bolsheviki · A Dead Serious Comedy
- Authors
- Fennario, David
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Tags
- general , montreal , drama , canada , american , world war i , canadian , remembrance day , veteran
- ISBN
- 9780889227149
- Date
- 2012-12-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.12 MB
- Lang
- en
Set in a Montreal bar on Remembrance Day, "Bolsheviki" has WWI veteran Harry "Rosie" Rollins recounting to a young reporter the horrors of trench warfare. Rosie's meandering monologue delivers a blistering de-glorification of war as it shifts back and forth between his wartime recollections and the present. The veteran's clattering, fast-paced description of life--and death--on the Front reproduces the chaotic sounds and rhythm of battle. Cast of one man.
Radical socialist and pacifist David Fennario is one of Quebec's most acclaimed anglophone playwrights.