David Samuel D'Arcy Young (born 17 July 1946

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) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Born in

, Young studied at the

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. He is the author of seven plays, two novels and several screenplays and teleplays. Two of his plays, ''Inexpressible Island'' and ''Glenn'', have been nominated for multiple Canadian drama awards. The play, ''

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'', received four Dora Mavor Moore Awards as well as the Chalmers/Toronto Drama Bench Award. Young is also a founder of the

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, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community, and a trustee of the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry.

Plays

* ''Love Is Strange'' (1985), a theatrical study of the life and times of Robert Kieling, the star-struck farmer from

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who has spent his adult life in mental institutions because he believes he and singer

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are in love. * ''

'' (1986), a political musical inspired by cousins

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and

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, co-written with Paul Ledoux. The play received four Dora Mavor Moore Awards as well as the Chalmers/Toronto Drama Bench Award. * ''Glenn'' (1992), a theatrical portrait of pianist

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. * ''Inexpressible Island'' (1997), a play about six men marooned in an ice cave in

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. * ''An Enemy of the People'' (2001), an adaptation of

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's play. * ''Clout'' (2001), a comedy about men, sex and power. * ''No Great Mischief'' (2004), an adaptation of the award-winning

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novel.

Teleplays

* ''

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'', eleven episodes (1983–1987)

External links

''Still Desire You'': Revisiting Canada's Most Famous Case of Celebrity Infatuation

References

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