Factory Girls by Sharon King-Campbell (St. John's, NL)
Sat, Apr 18
|https://zoom.us/j/217518541
Ten women from different backgrounds take up employment building weapons, ships and aircraft in a Toronto Factory as part of the war effort in 1916.
Time & Location
Apr 18, 2020, 2:30 p.m. PDT
https://zoom.us/j/217518541
About the Event
ABOUT THE PLAY
In 1916, a representative from the Imperial Munitions Board announced to a gathering of women at Massey Hall in downtown Toronto that women were to be recruited to munitions factories. The intention from the Board and from the Canadian government was to dilute the masculine labour force with unskilled female labourers in order to allow the largest possible number of able-bodied men to enlist for deployment overseas. Hundreds of women from a wide array of backgrounds answered the call, efficiently and effectively building weapons, aircraft and ships for the war effort. Factory Girls explores the lives and motives of ten such women who take up employment in a fictional factory in Toronto. Members of the leisure class join working girls as they navigate a newfound sense of freedom and agency against a background of increasingly violent nationalism, imperialism and xenophobia. As the pressures of war build and…
