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{BCI production examines the _ * massacre of the ‘Black Donnellys‘ and wonderful challenge for the .\ O a 4 students because the play gives a i4 Nes different view of the Donnellys b than some people might have," , says BCJ teacher and the play‘s director Jane McWilliams. "The kids have been thrilled because we were able to have the playwright visit us. James Reaney was here last Saturâ€" day â€" he watched one act and taiked to the students for an hour and a half about the characters and about the writing of the play. We PB also took the kids to Lucan for a 4. + ky * tour of the area where they saw *Â¥A the cemetery and the tombstone, as (axaas a * well as the Donnelly homestead site. We also had Jerry Franken, one Donnelly on i ie actors in the play when / mmmfifiifl“ was first performed in Toronto in ton hich tonight the 70s, come to visit the kids as Shicks and $ F BC well. So it‘s been a good experience for them. it‘s a story that down around them. The their parents‘ generation knows, but the kids nowadays don‘t _ the son‘s houses, Will D« know because it‘s not told as much. They‘ve been able to nelly at that house. So f explore a southern Ontario legend. They‘ve really become nobody was ever broug! excited with the story." Since the massacre, th Sticks and Stones is the first in a trilogy of plays by Canaâ€" distorted and reported a dian playwright James Reaney about the Donnelly family, eight years of research, | who emigrated from ireland along with many other Irish famâ€" BI 1C o rFerovies stage production are getting a lesson in Canadian history as well as theatrical experience. This year‘s offering is Sticks and Stones, a drama that looks at the Donnelly family of Lucan, Ontario and the massacre that took place about an hour‘s drive from here in the mid 1800s. in preparing for the production, the students have learned far more than their lines. "It‘s been a unique experience By Deborah Crandall "There was a vigilante group that formed called the Peace Sociâ€" ety, and they decided to soive things by intimidating the Donâ€" FM . nellys the night before they were 28 â€" supposed to be in court,‘ Donnelly and T; McWilliams says. "But things got Mhnmm out of hand and they ended up i opens tonight at BC killing the four Donnellys in the house and then burning the house down around them. They then went across the field to one of the son‘s houses, Will Donnelly‘s house, and killed John Donâ€" nelly at that house. So five people were murdered and nobody was ever brought to justice." Simu\emm,thefaashavebeeneuggefatgdmd distorted and reported altogether inaccurately. Reaney, after e@nyunofreseardw,has,inhistrilogypvesemedmebow "There was a group in Ireland, a precursor to a clanâ€"type group, that was against the landlord system in Ireland which was developed to keep the Irish peasants down," McWilliams says. "This group, called the White Feet, would burn landlords out and would convince people not to rent or live on the land so the landlords would not get any income. They tended to be quite drastic in their measures in persecuting people 4 that didn‘t join their movement, U o and If you didn‘t join, you were J 4. called Black Feet." The Donnelly family did not join J the movement in Ireland or in their new Irish/Canadian community. Hence, they became objects of perâ€" secution. While not a family of total innocents, they were not responsible for all the criminal or violent activities they were accused ilies to the community of Lucan in the mid 1800s, bringing with them the political problems they faced in their homeâ€" Dearborn BREAKFAST SPECIAL 2.99 RESTAURANT (Continued on page 17) hi i d inssc I pevseeeieeneeeeeeeeeenenne 00 Prime R’Jast Beef %c,hnitzel inner : »â€"_ w;wwm:mmg;:w-...mu Singers, along with the trumpets Wellington Winds will present A Colebration of Christmas, Dec. ; at 8 p.m. at St. John‘s Lutheran Church in Waterloo. Tickâ€" etsarc“,mid*umgnu‘ At WLU, the WLY Choir by Noel Edison will perform Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. at the Theatre Auditorium, and the WLW Symphony Orchestra directed by Janez Govednik will perform Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. at the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for WLU faculty and staff. 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