Bone Cage

Banks, Catherine Ann, Born: 1957 (Playwright)

Born: 1957

Playwright

Playwrights Canada Press

2008
2008

ISBN: 978-0887547874

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text

First produced in 2000 at Neptune Studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Geographical setting: Nova Scotia. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; male young adults: 2; male seniors: 1; female adults: 1; female teenagers: 2. Play contains speeches suitable for actors auditioning, and for young actors.

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Bone Cage is a poetic and darkly humorous portrayal of life in rural Nova Scotia, where stripping the environment means stripping your soul. Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues those he can. Jamie's desire to escape this world is thwarted by his fear of leaving the place where he has some status. Bone Cage examines how young people in rural communities, employed in the destruction of the environment they love, treat the people they love at the end of their shift. Bone Cage is about the difficulty in growing and hanging on to dreams in a world where dreams are seen as impractical or weak. It is funny. It is tragic. It is about different kinds of escaping. It is about a soul trapped in its own rib cage, a cage of bone, a Bone Cage.