Ingrid (Katie Coseni) and Liza Harding (Rachel Romanoski) get intense as Fauna Macgregor Davison (Rachelle Lauzon) looks on.
Is it jujitsu? Is it tango? Come see the play to find out!
Tea is ready and the Canadian Suffrage Association’s weekly meeting is about to begin. Will you be there?
Our narrator gets help from a modern invention to find out the identity of these historical figures.
by Jonathan Mandell
The US presidential candidate in It Can’t Happen Here, the prescient 1936 play by Sinclair Lewis, doesn’t childishly insult his rivals nor boast about the size of his penis. He doesn’t deride Mexicans as rapists and women as fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. He doesn’t call for a ban on all Muslims, or explicitly advocate the use of torture and the murder of terrorists’ families.
But Buzz Windrip does encourage violence among his supporters; proclaim “the people sick to death of political chatter…It’s time to act”; promise to “keep our dollars at home and reduce taxes.” And he does declare his intent to “build a wall…” That line got a laugh when actor Michael Sean McGuinness said it as part of the staged reading of the play by the Peccadillo Theater Company one night late last month at the National Arts Club.
He had paused before finishing the line in the script, which reads as a whole: “We intend to build a wall of steel against European dictatorship.”
Keep reading at: http://howlround.com/could-a-play-stop-a-demagogue-theatre-and-electoral-politics
From Ann Coulter to the (American) National Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage, here are a handful of ludicrous reasons why women, bless their uteruses, should not vote: Continue reading “Anti-Suffrage Arguments”
Eugenic feminist ideas in Canada as elsewhere crossed a broad spectrum, from birth control to sexual sterilization of the so-called “unfit,” but all these ideas were represented with reference to the “natural” disposition of women to have the best interests of the society at heart: not self-preservation but “race” preservation; not personal advancement but the advancement of the “race.” (Cecily Devereux; Salon.com)
Votes for Women (and Other Lies) will be presented at the Fringe Creation Lab.
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Perhaps it was somewhat well-timed that the British film Suffragette hit theatres earlier this year, to mostly positive reviews and some backlash about its misguided promotional campaign. This Newsstand magazine article provides a slightly more nuanced review, examining various perspectives on the movement in Britain.
But what was Canada like? Although Canada does not have the same history of the slave trade (like the US) or the vast tradition of imperialism like many European countries, it was still a nation that was founded on colonialism, the destruction of indigenous populations, and the disenfranchisement of ‘unwanted’ minorities. Until the mid-20th century, women of Aboriginal descent, Asian descent, black/African-American heritage, and East European descent were classified as second-rate citizens. Indigenous women were the last to receive the vote, in 1960. So how do we take the lessons we learned from Suffragette, with its neglectful lack of portraying suffragettes of colour? Could that story still have been told with cameo appearances by Sophia Duleep Singh as well as Emmeline Pankhurst?
It’s a question we must ask ourselves repeatedly.
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