Strike! The Musical
by Danny Schur & Rick Chafe
It’s 1919. Brisbane, Seattle,
Barcelona. Workers demand their share of the post-war pie but big business
and big government say “No” to crippling general strikes. But in
Winnipeg, an entire city shuts down for six weeks and becomes the nation’s
battleground for the democratic dream.
Mike Sokolowski and his godson
Stefan have escaped Europe only to become “Enemy Aliens” in Canada.
But where Stefan finds social justice in the strike, Mike sees a threat
to his slave-wage job – his only hope of saving his family from revolution
in Ukraine. When Stefan falls in love with Rebecca, a pro-strike Jewish
suffragette, making a deportation target of them all, Mike turns against
the strikers and their growing hope of changing the world.
Old World hatreds collide with
New World ambitions in Strike! – an epic story of courage, passion,
and hope on a collision course with power.
“Strike! The Musical
has such a vast array of content and an uplifting theme, it makes haters
of both Canadian history and musicals see the error of their ways.”
—The University of Saskatchewan Sheaf
“An improbably compelling
piece of musical theatre” —The Globe and Mail
“[Strike!] gives you
everything you want: a love story, a suspenseful plot, a collection
of good songs and a history lesson that teaches you something about
yourself.” —The Saskatoon Phoenix
“Strike! Has Important
Message For Humanity” —The Winnipeg Free Press
“Rivetting… spellbinding”
—The Jewish Post & News
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