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On the Job: A Play

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
On the Job: A Play
Abstract
It is Christmas Eve, 1970. In the shipping room of a Montreal dress factory, the workers get drunk and decide to go on strike. "So many of the guys I knew on the street are gone dead or crazy, man. There's no escape. This whole country is just one big factory, one big jail, Billy … Either you're a good nigger or ya die. Know what I mean? … Black, yellow, white. We're all niggers down on Rockefeller's Plantation, man." "Punks, Billy. All we get now is punks … I used to have this shipping room running like a new machine, remember, Billy? … No trouble, no fuss, 'cause everybody did their job and knew their place, but now … In the last five years, the kids been getting more and more like that Gary Boyce. Shit disturbers. They all got that look in their eye. Know what I mean? Like they don't give a damn." On the Job is David Fennario's post-mortem on the '60s and a look at the Canadian class structure. The play was first performed at Centaur Theatre, Montreal. Subsequently, it has been performed at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; been revived by Centaur Theatre; and been staged at the Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver. --Publisher's description
Place
Vancouver
Publisher
Talonbooks
Date
1976
# of Pages
110 pages
Language
English
ISBN
0-88922-102-2 978-0-88922-102-4
Short Title
On the job
Library Catalog
Open WorldCat
Citation
Fennario, D. (1976). On the Job: A Play. Talonbooks. https://archive.org/details/onjobplay0000fenn