Abstract
The Workers’ Theatre movement in Canada has been notoriously over-looked and so the publication of Eight Men Speak (and other plays from the Canadian Workers’ Theatre) fills an important gap in Canadian theatre history. The Toronto Workers’ Theatre of the thirties was given limited press coverage, mostly by leftist or Communist journals and newspapers, while its ideological successor, Theatre of Action, being less explicitly Marxist, received full appraisals of its productions in all the local dailies. But copies of the plays which were performed and assessed are extremely difficult to find. New Hogtown Press has sifted through such long defunct Canadian periodicals as Masses, New Frontier and New Frontiers (and in some cases contacted the original writers) to compile this present collection. It includes nine plays dating from 1928 to 1937.
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