J. Kelly Nestruck
Published on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 3:47PM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2009 4:10AM EST
The Seed Savers, opening Oct. 29, at Edmonton's Workshop West. Thirty-seven years after the success of The Farm Show , Canadian theatre artists are still looking to the family farm for inspiration – but a whole new crop of problems has grown up around working the land since 1972. Here, Mindy and Joe reap a heap of trouble when genetically-modified canola seed gets into their fields either by wind or subterfuge. The play riffs off the famous battle between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and the agrochemical giant Monsanto.
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