Paper Wheat

Paper Wheat is a play by the 25th Street Theatre Centre about the hard lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the wheat pools and the Co-op movement on the Canadian Prairies.^[1] The most successful stage show in Saskatchewan history, Paper Wheat opened in Sintaluta, Saskatchewan on May 18, 1977 and subsequently played to full houses across the province and nation.^[2]

Paper Wheat was an example of documentary theatre, with company members traveling to local communities to collect stories about Saskatchewan history.^[3] It was collectively created and written by its originating cast and crew, including director Andras Tahn and actors Linda Griffiths and Lubomir Mykytiuk.^[4] Later productions, under the direction of Guy Sprung, added further new characters and dialogue created by the same collective process.^[4]

Film

A Prairie tour of the play was filmed by National Film Board of Canada filmmaker Albert Kish (in 1979), as one of the last films in its Challenge for Change series.^[5]

References

^ "Paper Wheat". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
^ "Documenting Saskatchewan". University of Saskatchewan. Archived from the original on 2 January 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
^ Kaye, Francis W. (March 2003). Hiding the Audience. University of Alberta Press. p. 233. ISBN 0-88864-376-4.
^ ^a ^b Gaetan Charlebois, "Paper Wheat". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, June 15, 2021.
^ Thomas Waugh; Ezra Winton; Michael Baker. "Point of view". NFB.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 10 April 2010.