A United Empire Loyalist family flees from Boston to New Brunswick during the American Revolution. In late October, 1785, they host a reunion, and are joined by two veterans and a stranger whom they assume also to have been a former soldier on the Loyalist side. But the stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel seeking to avenge the death of his brother; at gunpoint he demands that the others choose one among them to be executed at first light. First performed by the Stratford Festival in 1993, Fair Liberty's Call has since been frequently produced across North America.
This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades among them the first ever Governor General s Award for Drama for Blood Relations in 1981 Her characters are the oppressed from the spinster Lizzie Borden in the title play Blood Relations to the prisoners of One Tiger to a Hill to Leah "chosen" daughter/mistress of rum runner Mr Big in Whiskey Six Cadenza
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