First staged in 1973-75 at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, the trilogy garnered much critical and popular praise for its groundbreaking literary form and fresh approach to staging. Reaney’s Donnelly trilogy of plays is made up of Sticks & Stones, St Nicholas. It has inspired a wide range of literary and historical works–more than 50 folk songs, at least half a dozen plays, several documentaries, an award-winning website, and numerous books.Ĭanadian poet and playwright James Reaney had originally intended to write just one play on the subject but found it “too large for one evening … too great a tragedy … full of levels and generations of people”.
The story continues to be one of the most compelling and controversial in Canadian history. Johanna) Donnelly and their predominantly Irish immigrant neighbours. This violent act of vigilante** justice concluded a true story of decades-long conflict between the Irish immigrant family of James and Judith (a.k.a.
The identities of the killers - among them a police constable, magistrates and a justice of the peace - were widely known in the area, yet despite the presence of an eyewitness, who escaped being killed by hiding under a bed, no one was ever convicted of the crime.”* Using clubs, a pitchfork, axes, a spade and guns, 40 or so men slaughtered five members of the Donnelly family, including two women. “Under a full moon in February of 1880, a mob formed in Biddulph township, a few miles north of London, Ontario. This guide does a concise job at tackling them. A program/study guide was created by Peter Hinton and the NAC, so forgive me for being lazy on this one.
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