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The time: 1938. The place: S.S. #1 Jericho School, a one-room schoolhouse in a farming area just outside the fictional village of Baker's Creek. There, a delightful but unmanageable group of children finally meets its match--Melita Linton, an 18-year-old teacher fresh out of Normal School. But Miss Linton soon faces her own challenge, in the form of Ewart, a menacing and mysterious juvenile delinquent sent to "straighten out" on a farm after doing time in Battenville Training School. The play chronicles Miss Linton's struggle to connect with a boy who has cut himself off from everyone, including himself--and to persuade the cautious and close-knit community to open its arms to this stranger in their midst.

Full of warmth and poignant humour, Schoolhouse evokes a way of life shared by generations of rural North Americans, exploring timeless themes of rejection, of compassion, of damage, of hope. It is a story about insiders and outsiders, and the fact that every time you draw a circle, some things are inside the circle and some things are not. In the end, the play is about those on the outside--about people who often "don't have the words" to express themselves or the training to cope with their lives but who have to get through anyway--those we leave behind to their own devices, who set themselves free.

Cast of 5 women and 7 men.

About the Author: Leanna Brodie is an actor, translator, and playwright: The Vic, For Home and Country, The Book of Esther, and Schoolhouse, published by Talonbooks, are regularly performed across Canada. Ulla's Odyssey, her award-winning opera with Anthony Young, has toured the UK. Her numerous translations include works by Théâtre Motus' Hélène Ducharme (whose acclaimed Baobab has toured North America and China with over six hundred performances) and Christian Bégin (whose After Me earned five Jessie nominations for Ruby Slippers Theatre) as well as Catherine Léger's Opium 37, Rébecca Déraspe's You Are Happy, and Louise Bombardier's My Mother Dog (published by Playwrights Canada Press) She has been playwright-in-residence at the Blyth Festival, 4th Line Theatre, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, and Gateway Theatre, and is currently an Associate of Playwrights Theatre Centre. Ruby Slippers premiered her translation of Catherine Léger's I Lost My Husband! at the Gateway in March 2018, and sold out the entire run. www.leannabrodie.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780889225718
  • Publisher: Talonbooks
  • Publisher Imprint: Talonbooks
  • Depth: 6
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 139 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0889225710
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 181 gr


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