Bhopal, 1984: With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living near the factory? And the poison gas explosion that will leave three thousand people dead in just a few minutes—and will kill tens of thousands more in the years to come. How could this have happened?
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2001. Teesri Duniya Theatre, Montreal
2005
Playwrights Canada Press
9780887548109
Also included in "Love, Loss and Longing: South Asian Canadian plays" (https://archive.org/details/lovelosslongings0000unse). NOTE FROM READER: Cast can be expanded by adding a chorus
Also included in "Love, Loss and Longing: South Asian Canadian plays" (https://archive.org/details/lovelosslongings0000unse). NOTE FROM READER: Cast can be expanded by adding a chorus
Stylized
There's a sickness in the village, one the trader promises to cure, if he can marry her, the sickly girl no one wants. Will she say yes or head her canoe over the falls into the arms of the Thunderer, the Iroquois god of cloud and rain?
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Who was that woman we saw riding the Crazy Horse space shuttle last night, riding it right into orbit – and the obituaries? An Indian Princess? A New Age Shamaness? Or just little Babe Fisher? Even her family isn’t sure anymore.
