Paper Wheat (1979)

Directed by

Albert Kish, Guy Sprung

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

58 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary film captures a stage play about the hard lives of early settlers in Saskatchewan and the founding of the wheat pools and co-operative movement. It shows the struggles and collective spirit of prairie farmers as they organize for a better future.

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What happens

Paper Wheat is a play by the 25th Street Theatre Centre about the hard lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the wheat pools and the Co-op movement on the Canadian Prairies. The most successful stage show in Saskatchewan history, Paper Wheat opened in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan on May 18, 1977 and subsequently played to full houses across the province. Paper Wheat was an example of documentary theatre, with company members traveling to local communities to collect stories about Saskatchewan history. An first version was collectively created and written by cast and crew, including director Andras Tahn and actor Linda Griffiths. The provincial and national tour, under the direction of Guy Sprung, with Sharon Bakker, David Francis, Skai Leja, Lubomir Mykytiuk, Michael Fahey and Bill Procopchuk, totally reworked the play, sharpened the politics and added new characters, new scenes and dialogue created by the same collective process. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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