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All Fall Down
All Fall Down
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Author: Wendy Lill Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 116 Pub. Date: 1994 ISBN-10: 088922336X ISBN-13: 9780889223363
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About the Play:
A play about modern day witch-hunting, All Fall Down is a Crucible-inspired drama surrounding an inquiry into a doubtful molestation incident in a small town daycare.
The rumours and whispers in the community – every suspicion of the unusual, the eccentric, the unexplained – are added to the growing body of evidence that a heinous evil is afoot in the quiet innocence of the daycare centre.
No distinction between circumstantial and substantive evidence is made: the evil is too profound, the threat too great.
How, in such a poisoned atmosphere, does one maintain one's sanity and reason, one's imagination, compassion and sense of fairness?
How does one determine what actually took place?
What does one do in the absence of proof?
Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
About the Playwright:
Wendy Lill was born in Vancouver, and was raised and educated on the west coast. She worked in various parts of Canada, finally settling in Nova Scotia. Her experiences in journalism and broadcasting influenced and encouraged her to "fictionalize real incidents and events," resulting in a career as an award winning playwright. She has been described as a writer of "contemporary social issues with a clear-cut women's perspective." Her interest in events that shaped Canadian history and Canadian cultural identity has influenced and informed her work. As well as stage plays, she has written screen-plays and award winning radio documentaries and dramas.
In 1979, while with CBC Radio in Winnipeg, Lill wrote her first play, On the Line, to dramatize the plight of striking Winnipeg garment industry workers. Since then, her plays have gone on to examine the Canadian women's suffrage movement (The Fighting Days); aboriginal-white relations (The Occupation of Heather Rose, Sisters); pedophilia and mass hysteria (All Fall Down); the slashing of social programs (Corker); and the dangerous lives of coal miners in her adopted province of Nova Scotia (The Glace Bay Miners' Museum). Her skill at turning the potentially deadly "issue play" into compelling, emotionally charged theatre has resulted in four nominations for the Governor General's Drama Award. |
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