REMNANTS (2019)
Written by Jenna Turk
March 7-10, 2019 - ST. JOHN'S, LSPU Hall
SYNOPSIS
Four women are trapped in a garment factory fire –is this 1911 New York or modern day Bangladesh?
Remnants is an imagistic play inspired by the 1911 Triangle Factory fire in New York that took the lives of 146 garment workers (most of whom were young immigrant women) and carries the audience through the day’s events leading up to the city’s deadliest workplace disaster prior to 9/11.
This story is terrifyingly relevant.The Triangle Factory Fire helped spur the growth of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union that fought for better working conditions. Yet in 2012, at a garment factory fire in Pakistan, 260 people died. In 2013, more than 1134 people were killed when a garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh – again, most of the dead were women. More than a century has passed and what has changed?
Starring Vanessa Cardoso, Nora Barker, Karen Monie, Nabila Qureshi
Directed by Ruth Lawrence
Designed by Emily Austin, Lois Brown, Diana Daly, Pat Dempsey, Michelle La Cour, Melanie Ozon, Lynn Panting
Stage Managed by Jaimie Tait
Photography by Vaida N. Nairn
Graphic Design by Perfect Day
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts, City of St. John’s, Arts NL
Written by Jenna Turk
March 7-10, 2019 - ST. JOHN'S, LSPU Hall
SYNOPSIS
Four women are trapped in a garment factory fire –is this 1911 New York or modern day Bangladesh?
Remnants is an imagistic play inspired by the 1911 Triangle Factory fire in New York that took the lives of 146 garment workers (most of whom were young immigrant women) and carries the audience through the day’s events leading up to the city’s deadliest workplace disaster prior to 9/11.
This story is terrifyingly relevant.The Triangle Factory Fire helped spur the growth of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union that fought for better working conditions. Yet in 2012, at a garment factory fire in Pakistan, 260 people died. In 2013, more than 1134 people were killed when a garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh – again, most of the dead were women. More than a century has passed and what has changed?
Starring Vanessa Cardoso, Nora Barker, Karen Monie, Nabila Qureshi
Directed by Ruth Lawrence
Designed by Emily Austin, Lois Brown, Diana Daly, Pat Dempsey, Michelle La Cour, Melanie Ozon, Lynn Panting
Stage Managed by Jaimie Tait
Photography by Vaida N. Nairn
Graphic Design by Perfect Day
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts, City of St. John’s, Arts NL
