but when you actually desired to arrest a person, you'll go
all the way down to the British Munitions manufacturing unit and cost them
with homicide … cuz that’s what it was once. Making us work
a majority of these lengthy, loopy hours used to be certain to kill somebody.

From the popular writer of Balconville, this robust drama offers a voice to the disappointed working-class ladies hired on the British Munitions manufacturing unit in Verdun, Quebec, through the First global conflict. Following within the trudging footsteps of Fennario’s anti-war protest play Bolsheviki (Talonbooks, 2012), Motherhouse equally debunks the sentimental notions of responsibility, heroism, and nationhood that figured so prominently in Canadian conflict attempt campaigns and that persist in Canadian historical past textbooks today.

In 1915, with tensions operating excessive around the nation over conscription and linguistic and spiritual matters, committed moms, other halves, sisters, and sweethearts gather artillery shells to help the warfare attempt and inadvertently locate themselves referred to as jointly to lead to swap either of their operating stipulations and of their own lives. in the meantime, their cherished infantrymen die on battlefields in a foreign country whereas their young ones starve at domestic as costs upward push as a result of battle profiteering. Verdun’s munitions producer hired greater than 4 thousand ladies through the warfare, together with Fennario’s mom. Tragically, the town of Verdun sacrificed extra infantrymen to either global Wars than the other position in Canada.

Cast of one woman.