Fair liberty's call
by Sharon Pollock
After the American Revolution, a Loyalist family which fled to Canada holds a party. The family is joined by a stranger whom they assume to be a Loyalist. The stranger, however, turns out to be a Revolutionary and at gunpoint demands justice for the death of his brother. He gives the Loyalists until dawn to choose one of their number for execution. The party debates which one of them is least worthy to live. A play by a Canadian.
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Fair liberty's call
2006, Alexander Street Press
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Fair liberty's call
2002, Broadview Press
in English
- Rev. ed. with new introd.
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"A United Empire Loyalist family flees from Boston to New Brunswick during the American Revolution. In late October, 1785, they host a reunion and are joined by two veterans and a stranger whom they assume also to have been a former soldier on the Loyalist side. But the stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel seeking to avenge the death of his brother; at gunpoint he demands that the others choose one among them to be executed at first light.
First performed by the Stratford Festival in 1993, Fair Liberty's Call has since been frequently produced across North America. Sharon Pollock, twice winner of the Governor General's Award, has remained for more than a generation one of Canada's leading dramatists."--BOOK JACKET.
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