โ Scribed by David Fennario
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
There's no way we shoulda been arrested for sabotaging
the war effort ... trying to organize a strike ...
But if you really wanted to arrest somebody, you could go
down to the British Munitions Factory and charge them
with murder ... cuz that's what it was. Making us work
all these long, crazy hours was bound to kill somebody.
From the renowned author of Balconville, this powerful drama gives a voice to the disillusioned working-class women employed at the British Munitions Factory in Verdun, Quebec, during the First World War. Following in the trudging footsteps of Fennario's anti-war protest play Bolsheviki (Talonbooks, 2012), Motherhouse similarly debunks the sentimental notions of duty, heroism, and nationhood that figured so prominently in Canadian war effort campaigns and that persist in Canadian history textbooks today.
In 1915, with tensions running high across the country over conscription and linguistic and...
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