The Glace Bay Miners' Museum: A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie - Softcover

Lill, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889223696 ISBN 13: 9780889223691

Publisher: Talonbooks, 1996

Synopsis

A story of the ill-fated romance between a wandering musician-social-idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner’s daughter, whose dreams are reawakened by their passion. The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum is a play in which the all-consuming brightness of dreams and memory are overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness and exploitation. It is a tragedy that is hard as nails and completely unsentimental, yet nonetheless full of love and humour.

Cast of two women and three men.

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Lill
Wendy Lill has not only written extensively for radio, magazines, film, television and the stage, but has also been active in national politics. In 1979, while with CBC Radio in Winnipeg, Lill wrote her first play, On the Line, to dramatize the plight of striking Winnipeg garment industry workers. Since then, her plays have gone on to examine the Canadian women’s suffrage movement (The Fighting Days); aboriginal-white relations (The Occupation of Heather Rose, Sisters); pedophilia and mass hysteria (All Fall Down); the slashing of social programs (Corker); and the dangerous lives of coal miners in her adopted province of Nova Scotia (The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum).

About this edition

• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0889223696
• ISBN 13: 9780889223691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128