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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Messenger
  name:
    name part: Lill, Wendy
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: drama
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: bcc
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 111 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
  abstract: As in Ibsen's Enemy of the People, two brothers struggle for power and ideals each believes are right. In Enemy, set in the late nineteenth century in a coastal town in Norway, Ibsen charts the journey of an idealistic and naive doctor who believes people will behave responsibly if given the facts, shown leadership and pointed in the right direction. Instead, he discovers as individuals we come with our own baggage, secrets and self-interest that often defy and divert lofty goals. Ibsen explores the whole messy idea of Democracy and how things change. Or don't. Messenger takes place in another country, Canada, and in another century but tackles similar themes. It is a memory play, set both in the present day and in 1990, when the Progressive Conservative government of the day, contrary to the public record, in fact set a lofty goals of joining, if not leading, the world in tackling climate change. The mechanism by which that goal was lost is played out primarily between two brothers. One brother, Peter, is the Prime Minister's chief of staff, who wants to maintain political control and has any players and interests to juggle to keep his Prime Minister in office. The other brother, Thomas, is an idealist, a newly minted Cabinet minister who tries to show leadership and tell the truth about the impending climate change crisis and get the whole country on board with the rightness of his vision. The stakes are heightened when strong family loyalties are tested by the crisis that ensues when Thomas refuses to back down from what he knows is right. A timely play in terms of environmental issues, full of lots of great political dirty tricks.
  note: Wendy Lill ; a play inspired by Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the people.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Federal government
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Drama
  classification: PR9199.3.L517 M47 2017
  classification: C812/.54
  identifier: 1772011525
  identifier: 9781772011524
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 160922
    record change date: 20170926131058.0
    record identifier: in00003838872
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng