Unequal Harvest by Geoff Hughes at the Victoria Fringe Festival

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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Thursday Aug 26 7:30 pm Saturday Aug 28 10:00 pm Sunday Aug 29 3:30 pm Monday Aug 30 8:00 pm Friday Sept 3 11:30 pm Saturday Sept 4 4:00 pm

In 2008, three nonprofit organizations; The Canadian Foodgrains Bank, the Manitoba Food Charter and Winnipeg Harvest, resolved to draw attention to the Global Food Crisis by commissioning Winnipeg playwright Geoff Hughes to write and direct an original work. �Unequal Harvest� debuted before an enthusiastic Winnipeg audience on World Food Day, October 16.

The next year Geoff Hughes, with Kami Desilets formed PeaceMeal Theatrical Productions. Unequal Harvest was work-shopped into a two-person show with dramaturge by Ellen Peterson and The Manitoba Association of Playwrights. Now in 2010 the show is appearing in the Ottawa, Winnipeg and Victoria Fringe Theatre Festivals hoping to encourage debate around the topic of how to deal with the ever-growing numbers of undernourished people.

�Gripping and heartbreaking in equal measure, an urgent and compassionate call
to understand the real lives and people behind the appalling statistic
of a billion people going hungry.� -Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved"

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In the acclaimed style of Eve Ensler�s Vagina Monologues, Winnipeg actors Kami Desilets and Brent Hirose bring eight of literally a billion stories of hunger across the globe and how it affects people in your own back yard, or as far as the grasslands of Kenya. While their characters may not offer you a Band-Aid solution, they will provoke the little activist in all of us to do something to make a change.


For booking advance tickets please visit the Fringe Website at
http://victoriafringe.wordpress.com/how-to-fringe/tickets/online-box-office/
Tickets are also available at the door approximately an hour and a half before showtime.

PeaceMeal Theatrical Productions is also available for bookings of Unequal Harvest while in Victoria for Youth Groups, office functions or events.
If you are interested, or would like some more information please contact Kami Desilets at the email provided.