Abstract
Undoubtedly the most socially radical and adventurous production of the Workers’ Theatre in Canada was a six-act, collective work Eight Men Speak in 1933, billed explicitly as a political play. Written by Oscar Ryan, E. Cecil-Smith, H. Francis and Mildred Goldberg, it deals with the attempted murder of Communist political prisoner Tim Buck (then general secretary of the Canadian Communist party) in Kingston Penitentiary. The scenario includes satiric caricatures of the controlling personnel of Kingston society, realistic prison scenes, a mimed shadow-curtain shooting of Buck and a symbolic conviction of Capitalism by the Labour Defense League, ending with a ringing assertion of Socialist triumph.
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