Wreckhouse
a dark comedy
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2003
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894294652
- Publish Date
- Oct 2003
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Wreckhouse is a Midsummer's Night Dream meets Deliverance when mainland carpetbaggers fall into the clutches of a tribe of traditional Newfoundland cannibals. Set in the ruins of a post-industrial wasteland, with nary a fish wharf in sight, this dark comedy examines the unreality of living in a society that smilingly markets a culture suffering political, cultural and economic genocide.
About the author
Frank was born in St. John's in 1954 and spent his childhood growing up on Shea Heights. He left home at seventeen and traveled to Vancouver then moved on to Toronto. Finally Frank got a job doing square dances with the traditional folk-rock group Figgy Duff. The group toured all over the island. In 1979 he co-founded Sheila's Brush Theatre Co. and has worked in the theatre as a writer, actor, dancer and director ever since.