Strike! The Musical

The Musical

By Schur, Danny ISBN: 9780887547652 format: Paperback pages: 96 publisher: Playwrights Canada Press pub. date: 2007-11-13

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ItâEUR(TM)s 1919. Brisbane, Seattle, Barcelona. Workers demand their share of the post-war pie but big business and big government say âEURoenoâEUR� to crippling general strikes. But in Winnipeg, an entire city shuts down for six weeks and becomes the nationâEUR(TM)s battleground for the democratic dream.

Mike Sokolowski and his godson Stefan have escaped Europe only to become âEURoeenemy aliensâEUR� in Canada. But where Stefan finds social justice in the strike, Mike sees a threat to his slave-wage jobâEUR"his only hope of saving his family from revolution in Ukraine. When Stefan falls in love with Rebecca, a pro-strike Jewish suffragette, making a deportation target of them all, Mike turns against the strikers and their growing hope of changing the world.

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