Paper Wheat

Paper Wheat, a collectively written play from Saskatoon’s 25th Street House Theatre, is the story of the people of the prairies, Saskatchewan in particular, from the homesteading days before the turn-of-the-century to the present. Predominating is music of many styles: folk, country-and-western, rock-and-roll. The production was made into a film by the National Film Board of Canada in 1979.

Playwrights: Sharon Bakker, Michael Fahey, David Francis, Lynne Hostein, Skai Leja, Lubmomir Mykytiuk and Bill Prokopchuck
Director: Guy Sprung
Cast: Sharon Bakker, Michael Fahey, David Francis, Lynne Hostein, Skai Leja, Lubmomir Mykytiuk and Bill Prokopchuck

July 3-15, 1979, Theatre 3, Edmonton

“If we all stick together
What we’ll have we’ll hold
You’ll be proud to be a farmer
When the story’s told.” – HW Ellerton, “The Wheat Pool Song”