Theatre Carousel produced Dave's only work to date for younger audiences, Hedges, in 1995. The play was originally commissioned by the late actress Marian Gilsenan, who specifically requested a work that could be performed by teenagers. Hedges is a look at Canada's role in the arms race and it has had over fifty productions since its debut in Merrickville, Ontario, under Ms Gilsenan's auspices. It has travelled as far as the Kanagawa International Arts Festival in Japan, and was the winner in the early 1990s of the delightfully named Creative Peacemaking Award.

The cast of the Summer Works production of A View From the Roof. From left to right: D. Garnett Harding, Gina Wilkinson, John Jarvis and Esther Arbeid. Photo by Andrew Waller.

While working at the Playwrights Union, Dave had the great good fortune to make the acquaintance of novelist and short story writer Helen Weinzweig. He fell in love with her surreal fiction and, in 1996, adapted a few of her stories from her award-winning collection A View From The Roof for CBC Radio. Dave next took those stories and knitted them together with another, unpublished work by Helen. The resulting full-length play was produced in the Tarragon Theatre Extra Space in 1996, and has since had another dozen productions across North America. It was nominated again for the Chalmers Award, and the Barrington Stage production was included in both the Boston Globe and Herald's Top Ten lists for 1998. A View from the Roof also began another long-term creative association for Dave, with the talented young director Michael Waller.