BROCK UNIVERSITY

This play aims to investigate Toronto suffragists from all angles; from their personal lives to their public activism, their heroic deeds and classist/racist ideologies, their conservative ideals and their radical social reforms. Rather than present a historically accurate "here's how it was" narrative, our goal is to use the historical context as a background on which to investigate ideas like the relationship between 21st century feminists and our forebears, and the Canadian electoral process and its relationship to the concepts of "voting", "democracy" and "reform"... A new play presented by Empty Box Theatre Company (show dates and times below) ----------------------- "The earth shakes beneath the tread of common sense shoes. The rustling and crackling of paper sounds like distant fire of skirmishers. From the four winds comes the low hum of incipient oratory like the buzz of angry bees or the.

Primary location: Toronto