Eight Men Speak
Subtitle: A Play by Oscar Ryan et Al
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780776607962
Subjects: Canadian drama (dramatic works by one author)
Description: This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage--the published text--of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf Gardens when the (then illegal) Communist Party of Canada celebrated the release of its leader, Tim Buck, from prison. Eight Men Speak had been written and staged on behalf of the campaign to free Buck by the Canadian Labour Defence League, the public advocacy group of the CPC.--Provided by publisher.