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Seeds a play for thinking audiences
Explore the fascinating truth behind the food that we eat with Seeds at the Key City Theatre this February.
Seeds is a dramatic re-enactment of the four-year legal battle between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and one of the biggest biotech corporations, Monsanto Inc. While debates about GMOs are multiplying everywhere, life-changing experiments are being conducted in the food we eat… A play for thinking audiences.
Named the Best English Production of 2005 by the Association Québécoise des critiques de théâtre (AQCT) and nominated for Best Original Script in 2005 by the Académie Québécoise de theatre, Seeds stars Canadian icon Eric Peterson in the role of Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser.
Based on court trial transcripts, interviews with Schmeiser, Monsanto representatives, and with farmers, academics, lawyers and scientists from all across Canada, Seeds leads us through a suspenseful labyrinth of legal conflicts around patent rights, scientific showdowns about GM food, and property clashes between farmers and the biotechnology industry. The answer to Schmeiser’s “who owns Life?” question will determine the future of our food system.
Peterson is a veteran Canadian stage and television actor, known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland.
About Porte Parole Productions: In today’s polarized world, Porte Parole’s play-making is serious business. Since 2000, under the creative direction of playwright Annabel Soutar, the company’s eight acclaimed productions have mobilized people from different ideological, cultural and professional backgrounds to reflect together on the most controversial issues of their time. Action speaks louder than words – but there is no greater action than speaking artfully with one another.
“If you see nothing else this year, you will be able to say, I have seen a work of genius on stage.” – Anna Fuerstenberg, Roverarts.com
“We leave the theatre aware that the stuff of life, whether genes or food,is too important to let slip from our control.” – Ottawa Citizen
Tickets are $40 and $34 for Key City Theatre members. Tickets are available at the Key City Theatre Box Office 250-426-7006 and online at www.keycitytheatre.com.
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