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THEATRE MUSEUM CANADA - FREE SPECIAL EVENT
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Event: Theatre Museum Goes Backstage: "The Great Escape: A Canadian +
Theatre Story" (Free Special Event)
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 7:00pm
Location: The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto (14 Elm Street)

Additional Information:

Followed by reception with light refreshments; Cash Bar. Copies of the
book will be available. Space is limited. To book your space you can
click here:
http://theatremuseumca.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=cTOTcwKbAAIAAASQAAeWYQ
or call us at 416-413-7847.

Join author and broadcaster Ted Barris to hear stories he discovered
while writing his latest book, "The Great Escape: A Canadian Story". Ted
was surprised to discover just how many of the escape's key players were
Canadians. He was also surprised to see the role that theatre played for
the prisoners - and how it helped their plan to escape. 

German prison officials supplied materials and tools so POWs could build
a theatre and volunteer their theatrical talents - as writers,
directors, actors, set designers, stage managers, costume and lighting
specialists. The theatre had 350 chairs made from Canadian Red Cross
parcel boxes! Join us to see how theatre was woven into this historical
event.

Background:

On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled
through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named -Harry,- and most slipped
into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a
German prisoner-of-war compound near Sagan, Poland.

In "The Great Escape: A Canadian Story", bestselling author Ted Barris
recounts this nearly mythical escape operation through the voices of
those involved, many of whom trained in Canada, served in RCAF bomber
and fighter squadrons, were shot down over Europe, imprisoned at Stalag
Luft III, and ultimately became co-conspirators in the actual Great
Escape.

Based on his original interviews, research, and assembly of memoirs,
letters, diaries, and personal photos, Ted Barris reveals that many of
the escape-s key players - the tunnel designer, excavators, forgers,
scroungers, security and intelligence personnel, custodian of the secret
radio, and scores of security -stooges- and sand-dispersal -penguins- -
were all Canadians.

If you can, please consider making a secure online donation through
CanadaHelps.org by clicking here:
http://theatremuseumca.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=cTOTcwKfAAEAAADUAAeWYQ

Theatre Museum Canada is a registered charity that seeks to preserve and
celebrate Canada's performing arts heritage. Charitable Registration
Number: 89138 6146 RR0001   (15 Case Goods Lane, Studio 309, Toronto, ON
M5A 3C4, 416-413-7847, info at TheatreMuseumCanada.ca 
www.TheatreMuseumCanada.ca)

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