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David Samuel D'Arcy Young (born 17 July 1946 Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Born in Oakville, Ontario, Young studied at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of seven plays, two novels and several screenplays and teleplays.
Jul 17, 2020 · Playwright born in Oakville, Ontario, in 1946. David Young was the middle child of three; his father was an advertising agent. He developed a leg infection as a child and his subsequent 18-month hospitalization still affects his work thematically.
David Samuel D'Arcy Young is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Born in Oakville, Ontario, Young studied at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of seven plays, two novels and several screenplays and teleplays.
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Aug 27, 2014 · David Young says Glenn Gould was as much a philosopher as a world-renowned pianist. Playwright David Young is seen here at the Young Centre Theatre Tuesday August 26, 2014. Mr. Young...
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David Young (b. July 17, 1946) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. During the 1980s, he wrote eleven episodes of Fraggle Rock (one of which he adapted as the storybook Marooned in Fraggle Rock) and The Song of the Cloud Forest segment of The Jim Henson Hour.
In 1987, he was nominated for a Gemini Award for his writing on Fraggle Rock, but lost to the sketch comedy special The S and M Comic Book. He appears on camera speaking about his work for Fraggle Rock in supplemental material from the Season 2 and Season 4 DVD releases.
Young described his script for "Manny's Land of Carpets" as being about "the kind of delusional system that's projected by people's belief in... the world that seems to be inside that box in the corner of the room" during an interview in the "Season 2 Overview."
Speaking in the "Season 4 Overview," he describes:
•the interconnected quality that all aspects of Fraggle Rock maintain, and how he used water as the common denominator for that concept in his script for "The River of Life" (a theme he would further explore in his script for The Song of the Cloud Forest).
•how different cultures in the world attribute power given to objects through the act of transferring a thing to somebody else; this was the structure for his script to "The Perfect Blue Rollie," which went on to resonate later in a sub-plot from A Muppet Family Christmas.
••"Catch the Tail by the Tiger"
•"The Finger of Light"
•"Marooned"
•"Red's Sea Monster"
•"Manny's Land of Carpets"
•"The Invasion of the Toe Ticklers"
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. Fraggle Rock (co-written with Dennis Lee and bpNichol).
David Samuel D'Arcy Young (born 17 July 1946 Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.
