1837: Farmers’ Revolt
May 27th - October 8th, 2017
by Rick Salutin and Theatre Passe Muraille
Director Philip Akin
Presented at Shaw Festival
Movement Director Esie Mensah
A handful of immigrant farmers have been struggling for years to turn Upper Canada's forests into farmland; now they are told that their land has been dished out to government cronies. With William Lyon Mackenzie as their leader, a band of desperate men and women march down Toronto's Yonge Street.
First seen in 1973, this modern Canadian classic uses a vaudevillian combination of words and music to tell the story of an uprising that paved the way for nationhood.
