TheatreOne's Emerging Voices Staged Readings

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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

The Dunsmuir mines are the subject of the next staged reading in the Emerging Voices series – The Ginger Goodwin Story by Michael Stephen. This compelling play tells the story of Albert (Ginger) Goodwin, a coal miner and labour leader who worked in Robert Dunsmuir’s mines in Cumberland and was allegedly killed by the RCMP for stirring up unrest among the workers and his involvement in the Cumberland Miner’s strike in the early 1900’s.

Four extremely talented professional actors will be working with TheatreOne’s Artistic Director Garry Davey to present this staged reading, all drawn from the mid-island region: Jessica Lowry, Adrian Hough, Matthew Walker and Catherine Caines.

The Emerging Voices series of staged readings of new Canadian scripts provides an important venue through which emerging writers can have their plays workshopped by professional artists and read before an audience, receiving valuable feedback in this important part of the creative process.

Coming up on February 7, Emerging Voices presents a newly developed draft of Good-Housekeeping by Nicolle Nattrass of Nanaimo, first presented in an earlier draft in Emerging Voices 2009.