Bone Cage

By Catherine Banks

Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues those he can. Jamie's desire to escape this world is thwarted by his fear of leaving the place where he has some status.

Bone Cage examines how young people in rural communities, employed in the destruction of the environment they love, treat the people they love at the end of their shift. Bone Cage is about the difficulty in growing and hanging on to dreams in a world where dreams are seen as impractical or weak. It is funny. It is tragic. It is about different kinds of escaping. It is about a soul trapped in its own rib cage, a cage of bone, a Bone Cage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Release date: Jun 26, 2008
• ISBN: 9781770910348

Catherine Banks

Plays by Catherine Banks include Miss N' Me; It Is Solved By Walking; Bone Cage; Three Storey, Ocean View; and Bitter Rose. Bone Cage won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2008 and It Is Solved By Walking won the GG 2012. (The latter was translated into Catalan for readings in Catalonia in 2012.) Catherine’s adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, In This Light, will premiere in July 2019. Her newest plays are an adaptation Ernest Buckler’s iconic novel The Mountain and the Valley, and Downed Hearts.

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