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This Week!
Radical Housewives

A Play about Toronto Women Fighting for Justice

 

Part of the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts

Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St.
  • Tuesday, May 3, 7 p.m.
  • Thursday, May 5, 7 p.m.
  • Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m.
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What happens when women have had enough with rising prices? At many points in history, they rose up angrily and demanded justice. Toronto had an example of that kind of action that has been almost forgotten.

In 1937 hundreds of housewives came together to protest the high cost of food in the city.  For the next decade the Toronto Housewives Consumer Association defied gender stereotypes of passive women and mobilized thousands of housewives to keep the prices of domestic goods under control. 

After World War Two they led huge national demonstrations in Ottawa to demand that price controls stay in place and laid out clear proposals for a more economically just society. What they got instead were withering blasts of Cold War hysteria that undermined their efforts.

The Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group has revived the story of these determined women in the hopes that their passion and commitment can inspire new struggles for social justice for working people in the 21st century.
 
Written by Craig Heron (in collaboration with TWTG members)

Directed by Aida Jordão

Based on the book Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada, by Julie Guard

Part of the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts
 
Tuesday, May 3, 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 7 p.m.
Sunday, May 8, 2 p.m.
 
Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St.

Members of the audience will be expected to be fully vaccinated and will be required to wear masks.
 
Admission is free. Booking on Eventbrite
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