The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum: Flawed But Still Powerful.
A story of the ill-fated romance between a wandering musician-social-idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner’s daughter, whose dreams are reawakened by their passion. The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum is a play in which the all-consuming brightness of dreams and memory are overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness and exploitation.
What saves the play as a concept is the fact that a Glace Bay Miners' Museum actually exists: Apparently, it's a very nice tourist attraction on Cape Breton Island. So the story amounts to a sick localized joke, a middle finger aimed at the tourism industry by Sheldon Currie, who wrote the original short novel and who looks old enough in a photograph to remember the mines.
The glace bay miners' museum: a stage play based Review. There s some regional portentousness in Wendy Lill's The Glace Bay Miners' Museum, an adaptation of Sheldon Currie's novel of the same name (which was the (PDF) Handbook Of Mathematical Functions With Formulas, Graphs And Mathematical Tables.pdf. The glace bay miners' museum by wendy lill - biz About the Play: Finalist for The Governor.
Sheldon Currie’s debut publication, The Glace Bay Miner’s Museum (1979), is an idiosyncratic collection of stories that repeatedly draw on elements of grotesque realism. Known primarily for its title story—which Currie would later turn into a novel and screenplay and fellow Nova Scotian Wendy Lill would adapt into a radio and stage play—The Glace Bay Miner’s Museum casts its gaze on.
Another story about love between two misfits, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum (Breton Books) by Sheldon Currie, should have been called Margaret's Museum, like the highly praised movie that came out of it.If it hadn't been for our astute Geist intern, I would have passed over the book. For those of you who haven't seen the movie (I haven't either, but I always like the book version better anyway.
Miners museum in Glace Bay in race against time to repair building The Cape Breton Miner's Museum in Glace Bay, N.S., is struggling to raise money on its own while making a plea for government.
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