Between a Rock and a Hard Place : a play about Burin. Part 3

• Other Authors: Tomlinson, Charlie (Director); Resource Centre for the Arts (St. John's, N.L.), Memorial University of Newfoundland. Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL)
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Division of Educational Technology; 1984
• Subjects: Plant shutdowns > Newfoundland and Labrador > Burin > Drama; Unemployment > Newfoundland and Labrador > Burin > Drama; Burin (N.L.) > Economic conditions > Drama; Fishery management > Citizen participation; Fishery Products International; Burin Action Committee (Burin; N.L.); Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/extension/id/1148

Part three of a play portraying the impact of the decision of Fishery Products in 1983 to close its fish processing plant in Burin, Newfoundland. A struggle to reverse that decision ensued, an all-out attempt to preserve the livelihood of the community. The Burin Action Committee, at their meeting of August 12, 1983, passed a resolution to seek a group that would create a play, "about the struggle to save their fishery and the historic, social, cultural and economic realities of their town". (Theatre program) Directed by Charles Tomlinson; written and performed by Mary Abbott; Gerard Bailey; Frank Barry; Vicky Hammond; Glen Loder; Stephanie Squires; music: Ed Corcoran; Lighting: Flip Janes. Presented by the Resource Centre for the Arts, held at the LSPU Hall, St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1984 Video includes no credits.