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Discover how Canada got the eight-hour workday! Visit the first town to vote on Big Oil!The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin recreates the events surrounding the mysterious death of Albert ""Ginger"" Goodwin, who led a strike at a Canadian zinc smelter in Trail, BC, that brought the WW I British war machine to a halt. In Kitimat, residents of an industry town in the glorious BC wilderness struggle to decide between economic prosperity and environmental protection when they must vote yes or no to a proposed oil pipeline. The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin: Cast of 2 women and 3 men Kitimat: Flexible casting, between 6 and 16 actors of different genders

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On The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin: It's been nearly a century since Albert 'Ginger' Goodwin was shot and killed in the Cumberland bush on Canada's Vancouver Island, but thanks to people such as playwright Elaine Avila, the legacy of the workers' rights activist won't soon be forgotten. -Cascadia Weekly On Kitimat: It's a story as familiar to people in the US as in Canada - a large corporation comes to a town where they want to develop or deliver resources and they promise work and money, a boom, if the citizens will let the corporation have its way. -National Observer

Elaine Avila's writing is described as bold, intelligent, forthright, spirited, compassionate, inviting, wide ranging (Caridad Svich); open, generous, (Erik Ehn); tremendously gifted, innovative, (Suzan-Lori Parks) and stunningly effective, poetic and insightful (Kathleen Weiss). On Elaine Avila's plays: Subversive, full of surprises. -Edmonton Journal Passionate, hyper-Canadian. -National Post What I love about Avila's script is that she never takes the cheap and easy road ... complex, nuanced characters ... each forced into the re-examination of their core values. -Vancouver Courier On The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin: It's been nearly a century since Albert 'Ginger' Goodwin was shot and killed in the Cumberland bush on Canada's Vancouver Island, but thanks to people such as playwright Elaine Avila, the legacy of the workers' rights activist won't soon be forgotten. -Cascadia Weekly On Lieutenant Nun: You simply must see this show. Absolutely ... the daring but true tale of a young 17th-century Spanish nun who trades a sheltered life in the cloisters for the murderous, gambling life of a soldier in the new world ... touching, exciting, and surprisingly funny. Cancel whatever evening plans you may have to go see this show while you can. I guarantee people will be talking about it for years to come. -Monday Magazine On Kitimat: It's a story as familiar to people in the US as in Canada - a large corporation comes to a town where they want to develop or deliver resources and they promise work and money, a boom, if the citizens will let the corporation have its way. -National Observer

On The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin: It's been nearly a century since Albert 'Ginger' Goodwin was shot and killed in the Cumberland bush on Canada's Vancouver Island, but thanks to people such as playwright Elaine Avila, the legacy of the workers' rights activist won't soon be forgotten. -Cascadia Weekly On Lieutenant Nun: You simply must see this show. Absolutely ... the daring but true tale of a young 17th-century Spanish nun who trades a sheltered life in the cloisters for the murderous, gambling life of a soldier in the new world ... touching, exciting, and surprisingly funny. Cancel whatever evening plans you may have to go see this show while you can. I guarantee people will be talking about it for years to come. -Monday Magazine On Kitimat: It's a story as familiar to people in the US as in Canada - a large corporation comes to a town where they want to develop or deliver resources and they promise work and money, a boom, if the citizens will let the corporation have its way. -National Observer

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Elaine vila's plays are produced in Central America, Europe, the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Her Best New Play Awards include: Jane Austen, Action Figure (Festival de los Cocos, Panam City), Lieutenant Nun (Victoria Critics Circle), and Caf a Brasileira (Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon). Her most recent play, Fado, won the award for Favourite Musical in Victoria, BC. She has taught in universities from Portugal to Tasmania (lutruwita), China to Panama, and is the co-founder of the International Climate Change Theatre Action, involving fifty playwrights, two hundred venues, and twelve thousand audience members worldwide. A 2019 Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Azores, vila now lives in New Westminster, British Columbia.

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