ISBN:
9781772014471
Pages: 129 pp
Pub. Date:
September 27 2023
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.75"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Drama / DRA020000
- DRAMA / Canadian
- DRAMA / Women Authors
- DRAMA / Indigenous
Two epic labour plays, based on true events, by the acclaimed author of Fado: The Saddest Music in the World.
Discover how Canada got the eight-hour workday! Visit the first town to vote on Big Oil! The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin recreates the events surrounding the mysterious death of Albert “Ginger” Goodwin, who led a strike at a Canadian zinc smelter in Trail, BC, that brought the WWI British war machine to a halt. In Kitimat, residents of an industry town in the glorious BC wilderness struggle to decide between economic prosperity and environmental protection when they must vote yes or no to a proposed oil pipeline.
The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin: Cast of 2 women and 3 men
Kitimat: Flexible, between 6 and 16 actors
Elaine Ávila’s plays are produced in Central America, Europe, the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Her Best New Play Awards include: Jane Austen, Action Figure (Festival de los Cocos, Panamá City), Lieutenant Nun (Victoria Critics Circle), and Café a Brasileira (Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon). Her most recent play, Fado, won the award for Favourite Musical in Victoria, BC. She has taught in universities from Portugal to Tasmania (lutruwita), China to Panama, and is the co-founder of the International Climate Change Theatre Action, involving fifty playwrights, two hundred venues, and twelve thousand audience members worldwide. A 2019 Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Azores, Ávila now lives in New Westminster, British Columbia.
