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In the words of Playwright David Gow…
“The Wake Of The Bones” is a musical drama, which details the haunting story of the discovery of a mass grave of Irish people, in 1859 near Montréal’s Griffintown, during the excavations for the Victoria Bridge. Only eleven years before building of the bridge began, six thousand Irish had perished in the “fever sheds” at Windmill Point, just as they were arriving in Québec, hoping they were safe from the potato famine which had half destroyed the Irish.
This is the story of the rebirth of a community, through the burial of its own. It is often said that a people have only truly taken root in a place when they have buried their own in that place.
Directed by Andrew Johnston
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