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Drama Canadian

What Glorious Times They Had

Nellie McClung: A Satire

by (author) Diane Grant

Publisher
Dundurn
Initial publish date
Jan 1974
Category
Canadian, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889240483
    Publish Date
    Jan 1974
    List Price
    $7.99

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Description

What Glorious Times They Had Nellie McClung traces the efforts of the suffragists to win the vote in preWorld War I Manitoba. The play combines the themes of politics, prohibition and suffrage, but treats them with liberal amounts of humour, music and vitality. The result makes for a fast-moving, free-wheeling evening’s entertainment.

About the author

Diane Grant has had a successful career across Canada as actress, director and playwright. She was involved with Redlight Theatre, the Toronto theatre group formed to promote plays by and about women, when the idea was conceived to create a play around the life of Nellie McClung, suffragist and social reformer.

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